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

[TerraN_EmpirE]

As too the answers now thrust is pretty important in a turning twisting dogfight

Don't fight where the Other guy has the edge. American Pilots have battled and won where they lacked the turning edge. Turning is not the end all be all of combat. Lightning with proper tactics will do fine. F35 has it's own advantages it's harder to lock onto and track. It's also go the ability to keep track on the enemy longer.

he f4 did not have a internal gun till the R model arrived later in the war the Navy or Marines 4's never had one the barrier has a Aden gun sling underneath the fuselage

And F35B has the Gun pod. Also the USMC never used the Aden They used the Gau 12 which is the basis of the Gau 22 on the F35 pod

The current 35 and I might say the f22 only carry 2 AIM 9X internally

With External load the F35 can be loaded with at least 2 External Aim 9X and atleast 4 Internal AIM120's

5. I do not see the US relaxing it' NVR restrictions regarding IFF that much if like you say we are in a coalition which 9 put of 10 times we will be

That can change based on situation and Partner nations. If it's partner nations with good Integration of command and Control then there would be no need. In the Gulf it was mostly because not every partner was as advanced in C2 as the US and UK.

6. The pilots helmet display has had a rough time of being too heavy to bulky and actually dangerous in times of egress if I remember right it pretty much had to be redesigned to allow for certain pilots to egress safelyas to the much vaunted software issue it remain to be seen how much of it can actually be fixed so it does not crash this needing to be rebooted not a good thing to do in the middle of a fight and please don' forget about the ALIS sysem of maintenance Mo plane is very good when it' grounded for spare parts you may be right in a lot of your points but if y'll are wrong it's not your life sitting up there in that seat would you like to try? Or would want to be in a 22 insyrad

The F22 has had time to cycle through most of it's teething issues. Machines like the F16 and F15 have been in service so long that all there issues atart to revolve around there age more than anything. Oh and on this in particular

and please don' forget about the ALIS sysem of maintenance Mo plane is very good when it' grounded for spare parts

Not limited to F35.

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In fact It's no worse then the Marines/Navy main legacy fleets. the F35 has a advantage though in that new parts are being added all the time because of the active production lines where if something breaks on a Harrier you have to hunt for it or loose the bird. If something breaks on a Hornet the Marines and Navy Squadrons have to fight for it. This is a common issue not just to Aviation or even military circles. newer machines require new parts and are not always avalible as soon as would be liked but as the line matures the parts become more available.

All machines are complex nothing emerges fully formed or functional, The biggest difference between US and Russian or Chinese Programs like the SU57 and J20 is that the US is in the open about issues. It takes time and investment to correct issues.


Just for Giggle factor.
FIGHTER PROGRAM IS HURT BY DELAYS

The multinational, multibillion‐dollar F-?? fighter program is plagued by production delays and cost increases, according to a report drafted for Congress by the General Accounting Office.

The G.A.O. report said that the program “is behind schedule,” that its costs rose...and that its success or failure “will have a significant influence on the fate of future co‐production programs” in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

, the prime contractor, Pratt & Whitney, which manufactures the engines, and the Air Force dispute the G.A.O.'s criticisms of the program, contending that the program is proceeding according to schedule.

Since the memorandum of understanding was signed in ???? by the five members of the consortium, the program has faced a number of problems. Some arose from engineering changes. Others resulted from the European members’ requirement for an aircraft that will be more than an air‐to‐air fighter and will be able to carry out an air‐to‐ground support role it combat.

Excerpts from a New York times Article
Must be on the F35 right?
Nope This was on the General Dynamics F16 circa

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Issues then were they Fly by wire control's European production and Materials as well as Drainage.

 

[Jura The idiot]

not mentioned in the most recent discussion here are
Mission Data Files

(as in May 15, 2017 BreakingDefense

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To make it as clear as possible, if the F-35 does not possess current threat data for everything from

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to

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to kinetic threats such as

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, then it simply “might not know what it is looking at,” Pleus told me. That would hobble one of the fighter’s great advantages, its capacity to

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for the pilot.

Who’s responsible? The Mission Data Files are created using information from the Intelligence Community and are then built into usable data by the 513th Electronic Warfare Squadron at Eglin Air Force Base.

This is not a new problem. Pleus’ predecessor,

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(he’s now the three-star commander of all Central Command’s air forces) identified this as the biggest problem facing the program two years ago.

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from what I figured, an F-35 pilot, with the HMD on, would be pretty much completely dependent on them;

it's obviously classified stuff, but do they have them for North Korea (antiquated radars/missiles etc.)??

asking because until recently F-35As were deployed in the region, and “The jets performed great, it was an amazing performance.” according to

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[TerraN_EmpirE]

Small point to make here Jura the date of that earlier article May 15, 2017 is over a year old.
If they have them installed, well for the North Korean systems most are older russian stuff that should be on file for Programming existing fighters Threat libraries.

 

[Jura The idiot]

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Just for Giggle factor.
FIGHTER PROGRAM IS HURT BY DELAYS



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this is funny, LOL but one might argue you there had been programs which also experienced issues and got axed, in contrast to the eventual success of the Viper

 

[Jura The idiot]

Small point to make here Jura the date of that earlier article May 15, 2017 is over a year old.
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gosh I see I forgot to say "an older" 10 minutes ago
in the sentence which should've then read
(as in an older BreakingDefense article, which is available at:

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... etc.

LOL!

 

[Jura The idiot]

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If they have them installed, well for the North Korean systems most are older russian stuff that should be on file for Programming existing fighters Threat libraries.

OK I'll leave it, this is not something one can find using google

 

[TerraN_EmpirE]

this is funny, LOL but one might argue you there had been programs which also experienced issues and got axed, in contrast to the eventual success of the Viper

Very few ever got as far along as the F35 is now I mean almost 400 units delivered is fairly far along.

 

[dtulsa]

Small point to make here Jura the date of that earlier article May 15, 2017 is over a year old.
If they have them installed, well for the North Korean systems most are older russian stuff that should be on file for Programming existing fighters Threat libraries.

Wasn't talking bout the external stores but in a clean stealth mode if you start hanging external stuff 9n it really loses its main advantage fast (STEALTH)

 

[dtulsa]

Wasn't talking bout the external stores but in a clean stealth mode if you start hanging external stuff 9n it really loses its main advantage fast (STEALTH)

Oh and thanks for the correction in the Harriet and F4E model introduced the internal gun there is no R model yet but it' been serving so long there may end up being one

 

[Air Force Brat]

At this point of time, the US Armed Forces better hope that the F-35 is a F-4 miracle waiting to happen. Because unlike back in Vietnam, there is no good fallback if the F-35 flops. So much funding and maintenance for legacy fighters have been deferred for it that the USN F-18s are literally cannibalizing each other for parts.
China and Russia on other hand are still building and maintaining 4th gen fighters, and that is a smart move.
The F-35 is like a coin flip, heads you win tails you lose. No sane establishment could have acquiesced to such a procurement procedure to begin with.

Really Viktor???? you're a pilot? engineer? , you think the USAF, USN, USMC, UK, AUS, Japan, Denmark and all our partners,,, are more poorly informed than a "real smart guy" on SDF??

There's NO doubt the F-35 will kick 4 generation butt in vast quantities each and every day of the week, and twice on Sunday's!

when you make an ill informed, blanket statement that goes against the 5 Generation revolution, you really should consider what that does to your credibility as and SDF poster,, you're a very bright guy, but your opinion here does not reflect your intellect....