F35 New fighter aircraft Demo flights X35

New fighter X35 F35

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• aircraft
• fighter
• vertical
• takeoff

[wellerocks]

the F-22 is meant to replace the F-15, maintaining its job as the primary strike jet, covering air-air missions as well as bomb runs, whilst the F-35 is meant to replace the F-16, F-18 and the A-10, and that's also why the F-35 is available in three different versions. The F-35 is supposed to cover missions like CAS, bomb runs, reconnaissance missions, intercepting and dog-fighting and the availability to be able to take-off/land on carriers.

[xxMadBomberxx]

Same here...

Are you going to join the U.S.A.F.?

[clubpenguinhacker121]

he probably drank some red bull.............

[kingpav]

Are these the models that don't do friendly fire?

[wellerocks]

@WinchesterDelta1 And the US didn't plan on just buying 150, but actually around 400-500. That's a HUGE difference from the original plan. And if you look at the YF-22/YF-23 contest, the YF-22 was chosen, not because it was the better aircraft, but it would be a better economical choice due to better industrial offset and a lower initial price. According to reports, the YF-23 was better than the YF-22 at a lot of important factors but the price was too high. Was that a good choice?

[wellerocks]

@WinchesterDelta1 And ofcorse the US military isn't stupid. HOWEVER, it's imporant to notice that as time, politics, economics and technology change, even the highest studied military plans can change and choices become poorly made. The F-35 was chosen, not to be the air-superiority fighter of the USAF but a complement to the F-22. The F-22 would ensure air superiority against airborne threats aswell as make initial strikes on AA sites and radar facilities before the F-35 is cleared to go in

[wellerocks]

@WinchesterDelta1 And if the F-35 would get into an actual dog-fight, the EF also has 3 types of effective countermeasures. The EF would be able to shoot missiles at the F-35 aswell in the form of super-maneuverable IRIS-T missiles. The EF can try and outmaneuver its missiles and with countermeasures, this becomes more effective. The F-35 however lacks maneuverability and payload. A lot of 4.5 gen fighters have or will shortly have HMD's. The F-35 lacks in BVR combat and in WVR combat.

[wellerocks]

@WinchesterDelta1 I'll just let you play with the thought, an F-35A engages a Eurofighter. The Eurofighter manages to see the F-35, lock upon it and fire from a long distance with the PIRATE-system, its AESA radar and the Meteor missile. The F-35 has 2 meteors inbound a few seconds apart, this long before the F-35 will be able to see the EF through its DAS system or its AESA. The F-35 DAS system might help to get away from one high-prob-kill missile, but not 2 without maneuverability

[wellerocks]

@WinchesterDelta1 Well at the moment, the "long range missile" capability seems poor. The U.S. opted for the Meteor missile which has 45% greater range than the latest AMRAAM missile. The all aspect missiles I'm talking about is for an example, the IRIS-T which could effectively be fired upon en enemy 180° behind the aircraft. Even though the DAS system is a very modern system it's far from invincible.

[WinchesterDelta1]

@wellerocks

And i also hope you understand that the US military is not stupid. Especially with fighter jets. Boeing and Lockheed are not some engineers that came together to build a fighter jet in their garage just for fun. In almost all cases they know exactly what they are doing and how to accomlish it. Just look at their history.

[WinchesterDelta1]

@wellerocks

Yeah i do understand. But i hope you understand that there will be long range missiles foir the F35 and that the all aspect missiles you talk about are not all aspect at all yet. Therefore you need the EO DAS for ( Electro Optical Distributed aparture system). Than you will be able to fire the missiles in any direction at any time. The EO DAS system and F35 avionics suit is way better than any existing sensor system right now. Maneuvring in a dogfigt becomes virtual irrelevant.