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

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Brumby said:
I think your post sums it well in regards to the situation with EOTS. There is a blog entry by Eric Palmer which is complementary to what you have described regarding EOTS, ROVER and VDL which I am taking the liberty to reproduce the relevant part below : ...
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Well, to be fair somehow, I think all that VDL & IR Pointer stuff in support of CAS has only really risen to CAS prominance during the last 5-8 years maybe. A time at which the F-35 design has already been completed. So back then neither have these gadgets been on the agenda, nor was the CAS role seen as that important for the F-35 I believe. In the early 2000s I don't think people exspected the A-10 to possibly retire in 2016.
For all those legacy jets, adding those capabilities was rather easy, as it simply required attaching a new pod. Video streaming via the Link-16 network or to command posts via SATCOM will indeed create bandwidth issues, since there will be too much data. Direct line of sight downlink will be fine. With a new EOTS, at least incooperating a downlink transmitter should be possible.
While that undirected emission may cut into the F-35's LO / EMCON architecture, it really shuoldn't be a concern any more in a CAS scenario.
 
Air Force Brat

Air Force Brat

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This is the F-35 thread. A comment about the A-10 earlier was fine...but continued discussion about the A-10 is off topic. A-10 comment removed.

...going forward, the F-35 has been designed and prepared to penetrate and prosecute a strike roll in contested airspace, and to cover the strikers exit with F-35s tasked with air-superiority. In case some less sophisticated posters have missed it, the JSF was supported and promoted over and above the more effective A-10 and F-22, by the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force, are the F-22 and A-10 more effective in their respective rolls, absolutely they are, do they give you the flexibility to multi-role them, for the A-10? no, for the F-22 they answer is not with further development.

Which leaves you in a quandary, not a good place to be, but we are here because out latest and greatest have decided that JSF is the way to go???

One of the reasons I have only half jokingly called the F-35, the ThunderHoggeII, it will no doubt be a better multirole aircraft than the F-16, and it will do its job very well if people will realize that this is the aircraft of the future, and the future is now!
 
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Jeff Head

Jeff Head

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This is the F-35 thread...not the A-10 or F-22 thread. We canhave had a few comments about the two, when specifically looking at F-35 capabilities. But continued discussions about the other two is off topic.

Thanks.
 
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HMS Astute

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The First Marine F-35C left NAS Fort Worth yesterday to VFA-101 at Eglin AFB
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asif iqbal

asif iqbal

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F35 is the world most sophisticated fighter with millions and millions of line of software

As a matter of fact it's got 4 times the lines of code the F22 Raptor has

F35 is a very very advanced fighter so advanced it's taking years to integrate the whole package but eventually will handle anything you throw at it
 
Air Force Brat

Air Force Brat

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asif iqbal said:
F35 is the world most sophisticated fighter with millions and millions of line of software

As a matter of fact it's got 4 times the lines of code the F22 Raptor has

F35 is a very very advanced fighter so advanced it's taking years to integrate the whole package but eventually will handle anything you throw at it
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The first A model arrived at the Fighter Weapons School on the 15th, gotta run but AFM had a blurb on it today if somebody wants to post a link? I gotta run!
 
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