I am not sure if that is case? I was trying to figure that out myself, but I believe these may be new build aircraft?
You could be totally right though, it is hard to parse exactly what type of aircraft they are delivering.
I guess time will tell!
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I am not sure if that is case? I was trying to figure that out myself, but I believe these may be new build aircraft?
You could be totally right though, it is hard to parse exactly what type of aircraft they are delivering.
I guess time will tell!
Weak shipbuilding could be the US Navy's Achilles' heel in a war with China
The US naval industrial base is a joke. They clearly cannot maintain this force design, to do so they would need to spend substantial budget resources to update and make available the industrial infrastructure. To complicate matters further, they plan to not only maintain the current structure but also increase it to >350 ships. If they cannot do this, we will see an increasingly aging USN that will sit idle in naval bases and ports undergoing maintenance or on standby for maintenance. I believe that sooner or later, they will have to give up their pride and exceptionalism and rely on even greater help from South Korea and Japan to keep the fleet in operational condition.
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U.S. Air Force Gen. James Hecker, U.S. Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa commander, awards Capt. Lacie Hester, 494th Fighter Squadron F-15E weapon systems officer, with the Silver Star during a ceremony at RAF Lakenheath, Nov. 12, 2024. The Silver Star is the United States Armed Forces third-highest military decoration for valor in combat and was presented based on the aircrew’s gallantry in action repelling the Iranian attack as the airborne mission commanders directing coalition forces during the unprecedented large-scale attack against Israel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Seleena Muhammad-Ali)
U.S. Air Force Gen. James Hecker, U.S. Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa commander, awards the Silver Star medal to Maj. Benjamin Coffey, 494th Fighter Squadron F-15E pilot, during a ceremony at RAF Lakenheath, Nov. 12, 2024. The Silver Star is the United States Armed Forces third-highest military decoration for valor in combat and was presented based on the aircrew’s gallantry in action repelling the Iranian attack as the airborne mission commanders directing coalition forces during the unprecedented large-scale attack against Israel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Seleena Muhammad-Ali)
RAF LAKENHEATH, United Kingdom (AFNS) 15 NOV 2024--
Probably shooting down Shahed drones with missiles more expensive than the drone.
The Saudis also used to do that for a while, to drones launched from Yemen, until they gave up.
Just the missile costs more than the drone, but then you add that F-15 flight time and, well, it is an expensive way to defend airspace.
The Saudis also used to do that for a while, to drones launched from Yemen, until they gave up.
Just the missile costs more than the drone, but then you add that F-15 flight time and, well, it is an expensive way to defend airspace.
USSF considering developing a range of capabilities taking advantage of Starship's (future) payload capacity but the most important feature is the rapid reusability when matured.
SpaceX COO predicting 400 launches of Starship in the next 4 years
Payload to orbit is already like 90% SpaceX 10% rest of the world
The FAA just approved them for 25 launches per year, so they are making there way towards that.
One thing holding them back is infrastructure for supplying the fueling components for Starship. It requires 239 fuel deliveries per flight, so 400 launches over four-years would require 95,600 delivers over that four-year time period. So the current practice of having fuel shipped in by truck would have to be replaced with fueling infrastructure to deliver fuel to the launch site via pipeline or however that fuel type is best handled.
EDIT: Also everything is happening at the Texas launch site currently, but I think the long term plan would be to launch from Cape Canaveral / Cape Kennedy and maybe Vandenberg. So I imagine that type of long term infrastructure would likely be built in and around those launch sites.
Oh, and I don't even know where they are going to actually build Starships / Boosters and how they would move them to the launch pad? Seems like a lot of logistical issues that will need to be worked out over the next decade or so before Starship really hits the a continuous launch pace... though every time I think it will take SpaceX xyz years to do something they generally exceed expectations.
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More details on the report
- The aircraft’s system for automatically diagnosing faults sent false alarms at a rate of one per hour, against a requirement of one per 50 hours.
- The F-35 “takes at least twice as long to repair as required” compared to its formal requirements in part because the “poor failure rate of critical parts was a significant contributor to low availability” for missions and “the critical failures are relatively evenly spread out among many different components.”
- Jets often flew test missions with their stealthy exterior coatings, technically known as “low observable,” in need of repair. “Maintenance such as low-observable system restoration was frequently deferred to allow aircraft to continue to fly,” the report said. None of the Air Force and Navy models performed missions while fully stealthy.
- The 25mm cannon mounted on the F-35 Air Force variant failed to hit targets “because of design and installation issues” despite years of remediation efforts.
- Details on the F-35’s ability to withstand cyber attacks on its 24 most-sensitive systems were redacted, although an unredacted portion said “the knowledge of actual aircraft vulnerability is limited” and urged the program office to provide a jet “that allows for full, end-to-end testing in a representative cyber threat environment.”
- The F-35 is designed to fight the world’s most advanced, “5th Generation” fighters such as those fielded by China but “in only one trial was a 5th Generation adversary aircraft used.”
- Air Force and Marine Corps jets required an excessive “logistics footprint” of support equipment and spare parts to deploy overseas to land bases or amphibious vessels.
No one post this on F-16.net. Sheesh…