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

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Air Force Brat

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TerraN_EmpirE said:
The 747-8 is part of the 747 family in name only it uses a lot of 787 tech and a totally redesigned hull. It's like comparing a Nimitz to a Ford class.
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NAH! that just ain't so, it has been modernized and incorporates different engines, avionics, and all new technology,,,,, but, just like a Flanker is a Flanker, is a Flanker,,,, the 747 still flies under the same, but upgraded type certificate, manufactured by Boeing...

With its unique "whales hump" behind the cockpit, it is distinctive and iconic,,,,, almost anybody, who's anybody, will recognize a 7-4-7 Heavy! As in United Flite 805, 747 Heavy, taxi into position and hold~!
 
TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
The hump on the 8 model is longer and has more internal volume. The whole bird is new. If you want a fighter analog F15c to F15E
But we are getting away from the topic I just wanted to correct the article in an inaccuracy
 
Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

General
Aug 31, 2017
Jura said:
F-35Bs in the show of force most recently:
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source is the vid
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and again:
Published on Sep 18, 2017
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Jeff Head

Jeff Head

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Registered Member
Jura said:
Aug 31, 2017

and again:
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Nice...flying four of them into the air over S. Korea and near N. Korea is one way of letting the North know that the rules are changing.

I will be glad when the USS Wasp gets over there and shows them 12 of the F-35Bs at once, at sea, apt to show up anywhere at anytime.

Count 'em on deck in this pic:

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The more of that the US does...the better.

Then, within 2-3 years, we can show 24 F-35Cs at a time on the nuclear carriers.

Those numbers are just going to grow and grow.

The US military already now has more F-35 5th generation stealth aircraft than it does F-22s. Ultimately, there will be 12-13 times as many F-35s in the US inventory than F-22s.

I would like to have a lot more F-22s, but having a total of 2,500 or so F-35s will certainly suffice.
 
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Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

General
oh really? US considers non-combat-rated subset of F-35 fleet

18 September, 2017
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Scores of US-owned Lockheed Martin F-35s would remain in the fleet with a software operating system rated below combat-grade under one of several cost-saving proposals under review by the Joint Programme Office.

Delays during the development stage caused Lockheed to deliver more than 108 aircraft with Block 2B software. Each fighter requires 150-160 modifications to be raised to the combat-rated Block 3 standard, says Vice Adm Matt Winter, the F-35’s programme executive.

The looming modification bills are threatening to suck resources from a looming production ramp-up with more than 900 aircraft projected for delivery over the next five years, Winter says.

“We’re looking at solution spaces to give our warfighters options,” Winter says.

One of those options is to keep a subset of the F-35 fleet at the Block 2B software standard. It would follow a practice used on the Lockheed F-22 programme, which has about 30 fighters maintained at Block 20 for training missions and about 150 fighters using the go-to-war Block 30/35 standard.
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now recalled Feb 16, 2017
Jura said:
US Air Force 'must' retrofit so that LockMart makes even more profit out of all copies including the oldest, huh? that's ludicrous (but real world hahaha) and the US Air Force would be better off if it ditched the old Lots and used the resources on moving on in the program ... is what I think
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