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

TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

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brimstone is good but it would need numbers, If American forces want to take a Armored column from the air best is a 1000 pounder CBU97 which F35 Should be compatible with.
The CBU97 is a sensor Fuzed weapon it packs 10 bomb packs each with 4 tank busters
[video=youtube_share;hmFwPyfEAWo]http://youtu.be/hmFwPyfEAWo[/video]
 
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Jura said:
I didn't get what "swap" this would be, anyway:
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Canada would like to receive 4 of the As that the USAF is in que to purchase, and they would swap the USAF four later As that they are in Q to buy. Since they are an ealier tier aircraft, they will be a little more costly, but Canada realizes they need to get their F-35 program up and running, and USAF won't mind allowing our neighbors to move up in the Que.
 
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Air Force Brat said:
Canada would like to receive 4 of the As that the USAF is in que to purchase, and they would swap the USAF four later As that they are in Q to buy. Since they are an ealier tier aircraft, they will be a little more costly, but Canada realizes they need to get their F-35 program up and running, and USAF won't mind allowing our neighbors to move up in the Que.
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thanks for the explanation, AFB, now I understand more also the title of that article ... this "swap" is an outrage for Canadian F-35 critics, I guess ... but as the article says,
Canada is still an official partner in the F-35 program and has not informed the US government or Lockheed Martin of any plans to change that.
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TerraN_EmpirE said:
brimstone is good but it would need numbers, If American forces want to take a Armored column from the air best is a 1000 pounder CBU97 which F35 Should be compatible with.
The CBU97 is a sensor Fuzed weapon it packs 10 bomb packs each with 4 tank busters
[video=youtube_share;hmFwPyfEAWo]http://youtu.be/hmFwPyfEAWo[/video]
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No doubt. Use as many CBU-97/105s as you want, and finish the stragglers with Brimstones/SPEARs. This helps the point I was making, that the A-10 may have outlived its utility. Things get a lot cheaper if the A-10s go and the manpower is directed into the F-35 program.
 
Jeff Head

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A Bar Brother said:
My point was the Generals think it doesn't matter if it is an A-10 or a F-35. It flies low, it dies. There is only so much armor on aircraft, making the A-10 a bit of a underperformer in "today's" battlefield.

At medium altitude and with weapons like the Spear, there shouldn't be an armored column today that would survive a F-35. .
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Some think that about the A-10, others do not, including myself.

The A-10 is anything but an "underperformer." That type of terminology is used by some officers who want to spend the money that the A-10 uses (which is dirt cheap by today's standards for maintenance) and eat that money up for other programs they are connected with.

We will see who prevails I suppose.

However, to date the A-10 has performed very well in those environs whenever called upon...and some of the nations had decent anti-air. The US can and has used aircraft like the F-117, Strike Eagles, and others (and this will include the F-35) to take down those capabilities lessening the danger for an A-10.

I believe we will see the A-10s around for a good deal longer...and hope that is the case. The impact to the foot soldiers is also a HUGE factor...and they have made it perfectly clear what they prefer.
 
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