Jura The idiot
General
Yesterday at 6:49 PM inquired "if VARS has been funded I mean by the Pentagon"
yes (with a budget of the program of record) or no would do it
Aircraft Carriers III
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yes (with a budget of the program of record) or no would do it
Brumby
Major
Whilst I do not dispute the sortie generation capacity of a full carrier airwing nor the sustainability of sorties from a conventional carrier, sortie generation as a performance metrics alone do not reflect the intrinsic value (of stealth) in delivering mission "effects".
As an illustration, on the first day of Operation Desert Storm, F-117s flew 45 sorties against 76 targets. Meanwhile, non-stealthy aircraft flew 1,096 sorties against 109 targets. In this case, each stealth sortie was worth 17 non-stealth sorties on a sortie per target basis. Graphically the contrast is obvious.
Said differently, a 8 ship F-35B strike package (excluding tanking support) would deliver similar mission effects as a 44 ship 4th generation strike package - essentially the entire carrier wing of a conventional carrier.
Jura The idiot
General
yeah with Harry Houdini in charge
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Chobam was contracted for this work it’s not a internal program. However we are in continuing resolution so programs are delayed pending the 2020 budget.
Jura The idiot
General
what's "Chobam"
??
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
A dyslexic spelling of Cobham.
Jura The idiot
General
in the meantime found
Cobham Contracted to Develop Aerial Refueling Kit for V-22
25 Oct 2016
and took a look at what type of game-changer refueling by Osprey is:
then-Deputy Commandant for Aviation Lt. Gen. Jon Davis "said the Marines are developing a program of record for the Bell Boeing-built VARS and are hoping to get it funded in the Fiscal Year 2017 budget after failing to secure funding in the 2016 budget request to Congress."
Davis: V-22 Aerial Refueling System Should Be Ready For Early F-35 Operations Despite 1-Year Delay
asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
Carrier oops is not so much about sortie rates
It’s now all about bombs on target
how accurately can you drop a bomb at a certain range
off course the higher the sortie rates the larger the bombs on target range
however when efficiency gets extremely high bombs on target rates match with the sortie rates
second is the turn around time
It’s now all about bombs on target
how accurately can you drop a bomb at a certain range
off course the higher the sortie rates the larger the bombs on target range
however when efficiency gets extremely high bombs on target rates match with the sortie rates
second is the turn around time
Turnaround time is integral to calculating SGR.
F35B has demonstrated SGR of
5.5/4.0/2.0 with ASD of 1.1 hrs
Compare that to F35C SGR of
3.9/3.0/1.0 with ASD of 1.8 hrs
B variant is tailor made for high frequency, short duration, forward USMC missions.
When it comes to efficiency, PGMs pretty much ensure more than 90% accuracy for ground targets.