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

[Air Force Brat]

I am rather certain the F-35 is a high zoot ride already, the Avionics are beyond state of the art, and no doubt the radar is awesome. The Joint in JSF means that everyone will be free to adapt their own equipment into and onto the F-35, it is a user friendly system. The F-22 not so much, but it is much more difficult to hack or upgrade.

I was very impressed when the F-35 was flown to 73 degrees AoA, and watching them tossing it around with no need to deploy that spin chute is very confidence inspiring. It has now been to 110 degrees and recovered without incident. So Yes, I have been converted, and yes it will be a fabulous little sister to the Raptor, heck, its will be a fabulous airplane on its own terms, I could prolly land the B in my double lot next to my house. It is a very nice airplane to fly, predictable, and linear thanks to that kool FCS. and that friend is what it takes to win, the airplane has to be "intuitive", so that you may concentrate on deploying your weapons against the bad guy.

Many of the F-35 pilots are former Raptor Men, they know "if" their are "chinks" in the Queen's armor, and they will exploit them to the max. There will be some F-35 victories over the F-22, I am certain that those eight F-35s operating as they have been designed to, with "situational awareness" will know ingress and egress routes and "set up" . They fact that the Raptor has "dominated" not only the F-15, F-16, F-18, but "all" foreign comers, tells how good she really is.

Those anecdotal "kills" by "guest" players in red-flags and little set-ups are "gimmes" to let the other team have a little fun, as the Raptor folks can't really find anyone on the home team to play their little games? So yes the F-35 is good in a much more generic way, and everybody will enjoy success in the F-35, it is a game changer. It will be just as deadly as the Raptor, and just as much fun to fly against "bad guys".

 

[Jeff Head]

ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 8, 2015) Cmdr. Ted Dyckman, a test pilot for an F-35C Lightning II carrier variant joint strike fighter assigned to the Salty Dogs of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23, prepares for flight testing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69).

The JSF beat goes on!

 

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Those anecdotal "kills" by "guest" players in red-flags and little set-ups are "gimmes" to let the other team have a little fun, as the Raptor folks can't really find anyone on the home team to play their little games? So yes the F-35 is good in a much more generic way, and everybody will enjoy success in the F-35, it is a game changer. It will be just as deadly as the Raptor, and just as much fun to fly against "bad guys".

AFB,
I am aware that the F-35's had been used in the red-flag exercises but to-date have not seen any discussions or comments coming out regarding their performance. Any chance that you might have seen something that you can share?

 

[Air Force Brat]

AFB,
I am aware that the F-35's had been used in the red-flag exercises but to-date have not seen any discussions or comments coming out regarding their performance. Any chance that you might have seen something that you can share?

I am aware of their participation in Green Flag excercises against ground targets in the Attack role, but I don't know about an actual Red Flag, A2A engagements.

 

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I am aware of their participation in Green Flag excercises against ground targets in the Attack role, but I don't know about an actual Red Flag, A2A engagements.

Maybe it is a Green Flag rather than my mistaken belief. I remember the news about using two F-35 in an exercise with their role primarily providing situational awareness and working on how the other air assets can leverage off such capabilities. My main interest is how did this ended up and not really about any A2A engagements.

 

[Air Force Brat]

Maybe it is a Green Flag rather than my mistaken belief. I remember the news about using two F-35 in an exercise with their role primarily providing situational awareness and working on how the other air assets can leverage off such capabilities. My main interest is how did this ended up and not really about any A2A engagements.

It went very, very, well and these two aircraft did I believe launch some weapons, I wish I could be more helpful, but I have NO doubt the F-35 will be a very effective ground support aircraft, while allowing the pilot the luxury of altitude and relative safety to take the time to put the ordinance on the pin-point!

Myself, of course I am far more interested in A2A, and I am rather certain the F-35 will be a "freak-out" to the Raptor, they have no real opposition otherwise, but the F-35 will be hard to see, and hard to lock onto? Kind of like a match between two TAI Kwon Do Masters?

 

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Myself, of course I am far more interested in A2A, and I am rather certain the F-35 will be a "freak-out" to the Raptor, they have no real opposition otherwise, but the F-35 will be hard to see, and hard to lock onto? Kind of like a match between two TAI Kwon Do Masters?

I think the F-35 A2A capability is greatly underestimated even against the Raptor with the exception of a merge. I am referring to all BVR engagements because of the F-35 inherent situation awareness strength coupling with its threat library which enables it to dominate the spectrum. In other words, the F-35 is geared to auto switch to defeat every spectrum thrown at it effectively suppressing locate, track and lock. The one with the first shot has the advantage. This is obviously assuming it works as advertised.

 

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F-35's Heavier Helmet Complicates Ejection Risks

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I guess if you tried to carry a super duper laptop on your head it will come back and bite you in some shape or form. I wonder whether some of the functionalities can be modularised as a plug and play so that if there is a need to eject, the helmet can be lighten quickly prior to ejection.

 

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If your looking to bail out of a jet in trouble I doubt you have the time to start dropping things.

hmmm... the issue is the G forces placed on the neck of the pilot during bail out. I wonder if a solution might be borrowed from the US Army. The Vertical Load Offset System.

 

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If your looking to bail out of a jet in trouble I doubt you have the time to start dropping things.

I am conscious of that. I was thinking of a simple disengage and then press the red button (something that can be accomplished in a 1-2 sec. window).