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

Air Force Brat

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I think the pictures are in Pinterest (I'm not registered there though)

NOW! that is a worthwhile and noisy video, those girls are making very rapid pitch and roll transitions, they are all streaming static as they roll, lots of G, lots of turning and burning! This airplane, like the F-22 has a very organic look, flies very naturally and is most definitely a "rock and roller", she gots the Mojo of a turnin, burnin, little fool!

Its always fun to be right about something,,, this bird will give the negative nellies a case of the vapors!
 
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On the Radar
The F-35 deployed to Lakenheath appear to be using a device—possibly a Luneburg lens—fitted in a set of small modules, one on the top side of the fuselage near the back of the main wing and one underneath the fuselage, to increase the F-35’s radar reflectivity during peacetime operations. It is unclear whether this is retractable to benefit air-to-air training.

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FORBIN

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NOW! that is a worthwhile and noisy video, those girls are making very rapid pitch and roll transitions, they are all streaming static as they roll, lots of G, lots of turning and burning! This airplane, like the F-22 has a very organic look, flies very naturally and is most definitely a "rock and roller", she gots the Mojo of a turnin, burnin, little fool!

Its always fun to be right about something,,, this bird will give the negative nellies a case of the vapors!
Comparing it maybe not true different fighters don't use full capacities thrust, turns etc... angle of view can be also different to consider imporatant. Idealy we need a demo with other fighter type.

Can you say me your feeling for F-35 good, less good ? don' t lie to me i am ur French friend o_O

I repeat again the doubts are about mainly her STR, ITR is decent close F-16 after Block 4 possible a little better, thinking maybe in relation with speed capable of max mach 1.6 others main fighters minimum 1.8.

Your aboard and what you feel Buddy i let 's you talk :)

 

Air Force Brat

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Comparing it maybe not true different fighters don't use full capacities thrust, turns etc... angle of view can be also different to consider imporatant. Idealy we need a demo with other fighter type.

Can you say me your feeling for F-35 good, less good ? don' t lie to me i am ur French friend o_O

I repeat again the doubts are about mainly her STR, ITR is decent close F-16 after Block 4 possible a little better, thinking maybe in relation with speed capable of max mach 1.6 others main fighters minimum 1.8.

Your aboard and what you feel Buddy i let 's you talk :)



#1 F-22 Raptor
#2 F-35A ThunderHogge II

whose # 3??? J-20, FC-31, T-50???? big question isn't it, but theres NO DOUBT about 1 and 2,,,,, "Scout's Honor!"

Today, and Tommorow, and the rest of this year, and rest of this Decade,,,,NO DOUBT!

Not because I'm an American, and proud of it, but because its true, and I wouldn't lie to my French brother or my Chinese Brother's.....

The F-35 is a "world beater!", it will eventually get into a "shootin match" with the F-22, and some sharp eyed kid is gonna beat some "old man" in Raptor, that will be news, but it will come down to tactics and tricks, and the ThunderHogge II has more than a full bag of tricks.

Trick 1 is its very stealthy! don't let anybody tell you that won't save your Bacon, 7 days a week and twice on Sunday! "Scouts Honor!"

Listen if the J-20 wakes up one day, and she's number #1, the Air Force Brat will be the 1st to tell everybody, I won't like it, and I will be ready to move on to SIX Gen right now, but as of today, tomorrow,,,, no doubt!
 

Air Force Brat

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Meantime uuuh ! in this famous passage

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Enlarge this photo and see what I mean by "organic", as in a living creature of the air,,, folks this is a textbook stealthy "Lifting Body"! Gone are those old nasty ugly "hard angles", this bird lives for the air, even without OVT, it will go right for those "incredible, angles of attack",,!

Yes, I know the FCS has dialed the available stick limit back to 50 degrees angle of attack, but that is ALL available as fast as you can pull that stick back and take those Gs, in an instantaneous turn rate! the aerodynamics give you an incredible margin, the FCS keeps you well inside that margin, for your own safety....

watch the videos, study the pictures, I can assure you tonight, that folks at Chengdu, Shenyang, and Sukhoi are, they are going over these proofs with a fine tooth comb, and let me assure you, if we have pics or vids of the J-20, FC-31, or T-50???? we are doing the same thing, but really this is how its done!

If that was a Colt, Springfield Armory, or whoevers 1911, we would call that shaping a "tactical melt"! so it would fit your hand without any sharp edges or "hot spots", that very same principle is also sound aerodynamically,,, it reduces drag, and increases lift! beautiful sensual airplane, she is as they say, "stacked and packed!" also a gunny term, but Terran prolly understands where I'm going with this, just gorgeous, voluptuous and gorgeous!

actually I posted the wrong picture, I'm talking about the top picture of the "bottom side", whoa, that is a clean airplane, cleans and SMOOTH! I bet it even smells good!

in fact this airplane is so pretty, and so clean, sweet??? I may stop "pining away over the Raptor",,,, I'm definitely enjoying looking at "little sister"?? I may even move her up to "numero uno!",,, !

as I was typing that last sentence?? the "Honey Badger" stepped around the corner and asked " What was that look", yes this airplane looks that good! she checked the screen to see what I was looking at too!
 
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, the title of his lecture to the gathering was simply “F-35B STOVL,” further indication of the growing interest here in the short-takeoff and landing variant. In an interview prior to his conference address,
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declined to say how far along the firm was in discussions with Israel on potential acquisition of the F-35B."
Lockheed VP: 'There’s a part of Israel in every F-35'
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FORBIN

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30 for Italy, 15 AF, 15 Navy 353 for USMC and at less 48 on 138 for Uk

Roll out: first F-35B produced outside US

The first F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) variant to be produced outside the US, was rolled out in a ceremony at the Final Assembly and Check Out (FACO) facility in Cameri, Italy, on Friday. The aircraft is one of 30 F-35B variants purchased by Italy for use by both its navy and air force.

Cameri is one of three final assembly locations for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, the others being in Nagoya, Japan, and Forth Worth in the US. The latter so far was the only one to also produce the F-35B variant, which in the US is operated by the United States Marine Corps (USMC).

Italy has ordered the STOVL F-35 along with 60 conventional take off F-35A models. Seven of those have so far been delivered, with four in use in the US for pilot training.

The first Italian-made F-35B should perform its first flight in August. The FACO in Cameri is run by Leonardo Aircraft

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