F-35 Joint Strike Fighter News, Videos and pics Thread
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All true, and yet I find it interesting that Lockheed purchased the lift fan technology from Yak, and the fan is driven by a drive shaft off of the main shaft??? Very innovative, gives you vertical thrust on both ends as opposed to the RR Pegasus, of the Harrier??
While I have never been a big fan of the Harrier, it is at least very technologically interesting?? on the other hand the F-35B appears to bring practicality and performance up to a level of functionality that we have never seen, although I will confess the Marines have made good use of the Harriers capabilities, while not being "turned off" with its operational considerations.
Yes...Lockheed has taken some technology from others and coupled it with the stealth, lift, sensors, etc. that they have and brought it all together in the F-35B which will be a game changer for any nation that can get them on their ski-jump carriers.
That alone will force the Chinese to take a hard look at it whenever they get a chance.
You don't need to have to have a weapon system in order to fight it. If we add the costs increases of F-35A and -C due to the development within the same program of -B to the costs of the -B's these would have been seen to be ridiculously expensive. Besides the main purpose of the STOVL aircraft program is that it can provide a supersonic fighter bomber that can be used from ships that by law cannot be fitted with cats and traps. China doesn't have such a law.
Wow, seriously? I had no idea. Why would Yakovlev sell this technology to LM? Wouldn't the Russian government have nixed such a deal in the bud?
Because it provided money in the early '90's. Lockheed bought an Antonov developed combination of welding and bonding, from the early 1950's and the production of An-2's, around 1970.
Now THIS is what I am talking about. An F-35C landing with four pylons of ground pounding LGBs during DT III aboard the USS George Washington:
Let's zoom in on that baby:
Here's what the US Navy had to say:
Hmmm...looks a lot like my model building of the F-35C
Let's zoom in on that baby:
Here's what the US Navy had to say:
US Navy said:
Hmmm...looks a lot like my model building of the F-35C
Seeing the F-35C, already flying off of US Nuclear carriers, testing with a load of four LGBs, has to give pause to others around the world.
A Sensor fused, stealthy, 5th generation aircraft, capable of carrying that same load internally if necessary, or ASMs internally like that, is a very sobering idea if you might be on the receiving end.
When they become operational in 2018, they will make a HUGE difference for the CATOBAR carriers.
The F-35B can already perform such fears off of US LHDs...or, for that matter, off of the big carriers too.
A Sensor fused, stealthy, 5th generation aircraft, capable of carrying that same load internally if necessary, or ASMs internally like that, is a very sobering idea if you might be on the receiving end.
When they become operational in 2018, they will make a HUGE difference for the CATOBAR carriers.
The F-35B can already perform such fears off of US LHDs...or, for that matter, off of the big carriers too.
Exactly Master Jeff, and the bad guys are losing sleep over the possibility that F-35s are coming to a neighborhood near you??? Why the bad boys don't like F-22s snooping around gathering up data and operating practices. They are making hay while the sun shines, but the BHO team is on the way out, thank God for that, I thought the last eight years would NEVER end!