F-35 Joint Strike Fighter News, Videos and pics Thread

Jeff Head

Jeff Head

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Miragedriver

Miragedriver

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The 2007 Paveway IV contract only covered internal integration, but they seem to have moved beyond that. Never really made sense (for an old Cold Warrior like me) to stick to sole internal stations.

Also, test status update:
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Here are some heavy loads photos. Everyone loves heavy loads photos! ;)


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10 January 2014: Lt. Col. Brent Reinhardt was at the controls of F-35A AF-1 Flight 350 for the first test mission flown with ten weapons. The flight, which originated from Edwards AFB, California, was used to evaluate the handling qualities of the F-35A. The weapon load consisted of six 500-pound GBU-12 Paveway II bombs (two mounted in the internal weapon bays and four mounted under the wings), two AIM-120 AMRAAMs mounted in the internal weapon bays, and two AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missiles mounted under the wings.


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13 January 2014: RAF Sdn. Ldr. Andy Edgell flew F-35C CF-1 for the first test mission of the F-35C with ten weapons and one gun pod. The flight, which originated from NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, was used to evaluate the handling qualities of the F-35C with a full weapon load. The load consisted of four 500-pound GBU-12 Paveway II bombs and two AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missiles mounted under the wings and two GBU-32s and two AIM-120 AMRAAMs mounted in the internal weapon bays. A 25mm gun pod was mounted on the external centerline station as well.



I will now get back to work bottling my Malbec.
 
asif iqbal

asif iqbal

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re: F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Thread

Miragedriver said:
Interesting to see how the Australians will deal with F-35 Carrier operations:

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I guess it can be done.
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Put it this way each Canberra Class can support 6 x F35B two such vessels and we have 12 F35B with that ski jump they could have a decent payload and 12 is a small Squadron so why not?

They are good ships and will do down under just fine!
 
TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

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F-35 becoming industry's "dominant platform" – GKN
By: DAN THISDELLLONDON Source: Flightglobal.com in an hour
US budget pressures may be dampening short-term demand for Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, but from one supplier’s perspective, sales to key allies such as Japan and South Korea are turning the aircraft into a “dominant platform” for its programme’s supply base.

In a pre-Farnborough air show briefing in London, GKN Aerospace and Land Systems chief executive Marcus Bryson was sanguine about the spending battles that follow the F-35. While worldwide defence spending remains subject to budget cutbacks, he says, the news is “not all bad” in the defence business: “It all depends on which platforms you’re on.”

At present, the F-35 is one of GKN’s principal military platforms, with company content of $2.5 million per shipset. That total is exceeded only by its contribution to Sikorsky’s CH-53K heavylift helicopter for the US Marine Corps ($2.8 million) and the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet ($3.1 million). But while Bryson and Kevin Cummings, who recently replaced him as GKN Aerospace chief executive when he was given extra responsibility for the land systems business, expect growth in F-35 output, the CH-53K is currently stymied in US Congressional budget talks – and the F/A-18 appears to be in decline.

GKN’s contracts for all three F-35 variants cover the design and supply of its all-composite engine front fan case, embedded electro-thermal ice protection system for its Pratt & Whitney F135 engine and the canopy transparency, along with manufacture of other composite assemblies and machined metal structures.

Estimating the lifetime value of F-35 work is daunting, given uncertainty over the number of aircraft to be produced. On 25 March, the US government awarded Lockheed Martin a $698 million contract to buy long-lead materials for 57 F-35s. The 100th aircraft was produced in December 2013, and the company says that, through the low-rate initial production lot nine funding and order cycle, 360 aircraft will have been delivered or produced, including the 57 approved in March.

The F-35 programme has been boosted recently by South Korea, which opted to fill its hard-fought F-X III requirement with 40 F-35s, chosen over the Boeing F-15 Silent Eagle and Eurofighter Typhoon. Japan has also chosen the F-35 – up to 48 aircraft – over the F/A-18 and Eurofighter, while Australia earlier this year confirmed plans to order its next 58 aircraft, and may eventually buy up to 100. Turkey has also entered the acquisition phase of its plan to field up to 100 F-35s from 2018.
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Miragedriver

Miragedriver

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Cmdr. Eric Buus pilots the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter test aircraft BF-2 as it completes the first test flight for the short takeoff and vertical landing variant with an asymmetric weapons load. The weapons load included an AIM-9X Sidewinder inert missile on the starboard pylon, a centerline 25mm gun pod, and a GBU-32 and AIM-120 in the starboard weapon bay.

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An F-35B Lightning II aircraft performs a vertical landing aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1). Wasp is underway in support of F-35B Lightning II Developmental Testing phase II (DT-II).

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An F-35B Lightning II makes the first vertical landing on a flight deck at sea aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp
 
Bernard

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Chinese Air Chief Tells Lockheed ‘I Love’ The F-35
WASHINGTON: It is a story that tells a great deal about the sophistication of Chinese military leaders, as well as why air shows happen.

Steve O’Bryan, one of Lockheed Martin’s top executives for the F-35 program, was seated across the table from the chief of China’s air force almost two years ago at the gala dinner held at the Royal International Air Tattoo. They chatted amiably during dinner, through an interpreter. Then Steve got up to give an award and was introduced as the head of Lockheed’s F-35 international business development.

When he got back to his seat the interpreter had vanished and the air chief himself was sitting next to Steve. They chatted for a while. Then the air chief leaned over to Steve, smiling and said: “You know, Steve, I really love the F-35. I’d really love to have the F-35 in my air force.”

Steve thought to himself: I’m the Lockheed business development guy, so I should ask him how many he wants! So he asked the air chief. “He kind of looks at me and says: ’You know Steve, I need just one.”
The audience of roughly 75 people roared with knowing laughter and applauded.

Since so few American defense officials, officers or industry executives deal much with Chinese military leaders, I called Dean Cheng, an expert on the Chinese military at the Heritage Foundation, to get some idea as to just this encounter might signify.

After cautioning that “it’s always very dangerous to generalize from one encounter,” Cheng offered these observations:

“They can turn on the charm when they want to, and they can turn it off just as fast when they want to,” he said of senior Chinese military officials. He noted that the Chinese will participate in the world’s largest naval exercise this year, called RimPac. “Will we get the smiling, happy Chinese or the furrowed brow, bugger-off Chinese?”

Finally, he raised the recent sale of the S-400 anti-aircraft system by Russia to China. “What does that tell us about the Russians, that they are willing to sell the S-400 to the Chinese? The fact that Putin is willing to sell his seed corn is pretty significant.” Why? Refer back to the Chinese air chief’s need for only one F-35.
“The Chinese,” Dean said, “are going to buy one (S-400) and copy the hell out of it.” So Russia, Cheng concludes, really needs the money from the sale. Something to bear in mind as the Ukraine crisis evolves. A former senior American diplomat who knows Putin and the countries involved told me recently he thinks the Ukrainian moves demonstrate clearly that Russia is in deep trouble that will only grow worse as Putin grows more involved with the day-to-day management and sustenance of Crimea and eastern Ukraine.
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Equation

Equation

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I would like to see "Maverick" perform this trick on a SU-35 (just like in the movie Top Gun) and take pics of the Russian pilot with his iPhone.:p
 
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