LOL what is this TE
And so you are comparing a balloon that would have relayed information half an hour old by the time it got to artillery to a system that exchanges information on targeting objects at the speeds limited only by the computational speed of the processor.
That’s a thin argument. I mean I have had some thin ones myself, but this is active data exchange across a breath of data types.
I would've thought you might've realized the features you linked
Yesterday at 6:43 PM
Yesterday at 7:33 PM
aren't specific to the F-35, in fact any suitable aircraft (for instance the F-18) could get them;
since you haven't realized (or pretended not to) said features aren't specific to the F-35,
I pointed this out to you in a hyperbole
Yesterday at 11:03 PM (you didn't notice my reference to the 19th century was a hyperbole, no?)
Human beings have been killing each other (probably with stones) since the dawn of time while still living in caves. Over time, the killing machine is much more efficient in both depth and scope.
So what is your point about observers in a balloon? You are not making a point but merely making a statement.
You are free to criticize about any technology or system but make a case for it. If you think sending observers onto a balloon is the way to go then make a case for it. I would be very interested in in how it would compare to a MADL data feed to a SM-6.
now Brumby jumped into the end (for me) of this conversation OK it began
Yesterday at 6:43 PM
with the chunk boasting about the F-35:
Nearly
, the Navy and Lockheed Martin tested pairing an F-35B with an Aegis Combat System armed with a Raytheon Standard Missile-6. An Aegis test site at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, used data from the F-35 to launch an SM-6 anti-air missile at a Beechcraft MQM-107 target representing an adversarial fighter
and
Yesterday at 7:14 PM I called that chunk
one-time PR stunt aimed to
- justify ("justify") exorbitant F-35 program cost, and
- prove ("prove") how advanced the F-35 was (back in 2016)
and have nothing to add to this, actually I ask again what's on top of this page which is
so what's been the progress on the F-35 involvement in the NIFC-CA since then? just tell the World:
EDIT by the way is the NIF-CA even a program of record? (I don't know that)