F-35 Joint Strike Fighter News, Videos and pics Thread
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Likely legit. Though the news on using weights (whether that be actual gym weights or something else) in place of the radar is certainly real.
Now we have the F-35D variant.
D = Daytime.
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(Nicknamed dummy)
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To be fair, radar mounting points in context of radar readiness is actually not a simple matter to solve especially if various segments of the program are not operating fully synchronized with one another. It's not a matter of technological sophistication, but just program management.
Those images do seem a little bit too wild to be true and doesn't fully make sense -- based on the hoists in the background, it looks like the airframe is a crash recovery/training article, so even if the plates themselves are real and the image isn't fabricated, I'm sure the actual ballast used in the real airframes aren't just gym plates.
Are those photos showing gym plates legit?
My skepticism is based on the following:
- The setup implies an antenna weight of 180 lb (82 kg) at most, which seems quite lightweight for an AESA radar of that size. This is not counting the mounting "bar", of course.
- Don't they have mass simulators for this purpose?
- The plates are not secured in place, which would make transportation quite dangerous since they could move about and shift the mass - and by extension the centre of gravity - within the plane.
Is the progress impacted by the rare earth ban or is it the result of something far worse???
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Bro, do you even lift?
Can't laugh,though. We all remember the Tornado F2/3 'Blue Circle' radar.
Well, J-35 can never measure up to the sheer sophistication of this kind of radar technology so…
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Yankeesama/Shilao confirms that it has nothing to do with rare earth ban. Let this be a warning to any country that puts shareholder value above actual engineering talent…
I'd argue some caution here, though.
Development programs happen everywhere. In american case, we simply get to see them very well.