F-35 Joint Strike Fighter News, Videos and pics Thread
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Jura The idiot
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LOL on standy
Yes, first day is indeed a metaphor describing the very hostile air environment before most air defenses are neutralized or destroyed. F-22's or F-35's, B-2's are first day weapons, the idea being that after the first day, you would have "knocked out" most SAM sights, Fighter aircraft,, blah, blah, blah. That's why I am a very strong proponent of the fifth generation aircraft, without L/O, you are simply "dead meat".
F-15s, Flankers, Mig-29s, J-10s, J-15s, F-18s, F-16s, Typhoons, Rafales, go on down the list, but they would suffer extremely heavy losses,,thats why the Chinese are building the J-20 and the Russians the T-50, hoping to reduce the radar signatures that will get you "dead" or "deader than dead".
So first day describes those air-ops in that deadly environment that must be sanitized in order for our follow on four gens, to then come in and assist with the heavy lifting. Second day air ops, which should be much safer, with just the odd mobile launcher?? or something surviving "first day" attacks is also a metaphor describing a "scrubbed" or cleaner air environment, where the threat has been minimized.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
This is the Aim 120A AMRAAM missile okay note the fins this is common throughout the AIm 120 A-B
But they limit the number a F22 could carry internally so
Note the fins on the Later AIM120C.
Jura The idiot
General
OK I've heard of finding 'Emmental cheese' holes in A2AD 'bubble' and so on and so forth, just took 'first day' literally 38 minutes ago LOL
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Now they did not just take a Sawzall to the fins They replaced them with a new fin set that is longer in length and comes to a more squared shape. Like the Aim 120 above it went from sharp triangular fins to more blunt. because Fifth gens carry their weapons internally the Sharp points take up more room for less need.yeah I briefly looked for pictures and they'll frigging cut the tail fins:
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Jura The idiot
General
hmmm then why that missile originally had gotten the tail fins in the way it had originally gotten them??
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
because They are fine for fourth gen fighters. once the weapons began being moved inside the fighter, space became an issue. If it's hanging off in Open Air it can be spaced more freely along the wing or fuselage.
AMRAAM and Meteor were designed for 4th gen fighters the F15 and Typhoon. With F22 and F35 now emerging they need to be adapted. fortunately Fins are an easy fix.
AMRAAM and Meteor were designed for 4th gen fighters the F15 and Typhoon. With F22 and F35 now emerging they need to be adapted. fortunately Fins are an easy fix.
I don't quote you but only articles you quote you don' t speak... don' t need to be agressive...cool
Normaly 4 according it
for weight ok remains there are all wet HP ? make sense... but for F-35B not on points 2 and 10 too limited for host these FTs.
Obvously Meteor fit in the F-35B weapons bay what is it !
Minor modifications but on going and no problem.
Meantime i find preserved preciously
but Meteor more big coz more fast more fuel etc ... and next Block 5 quite sure can' t host 6 as the number of AIM-120.
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Jura The idiot
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you've made your choice