At first I was not a fan of the F-35 and felt that it was ugly, and tried to put too much into one package. But it's really grown on me, and I hope that it can be a big success story of the US Air Force. Good job LockMart.
Plus this plane's sensors are going to be unprecedented. I saw a video the other day showing the distributed apeture system on this plane picking up a rocket being launched from 800 miles away. If those infrared sensors on the DAS can pick up infrared signals from that far away 360 degrees around the F-35, the pilot will NEVER be caught by surpise and will see anything well before it sees him.
The F-35 IMO will be one of the best fighter planes ever built. People look at the maximum speed and think this plane can't keep up with the new Sukhois (T-50 and Su-35) from a manuverability standpoint but what they fail to see is this plane does close to Mach 1.7 and maneuvers like an empty F-16 while carrying a full load of weapons (the weapons bays are being adjusted to carry 6 AMRAAMS now). Put 6 missiles on a Su-35 and let me see if its still doing all those fancy air show maneuvers.
Hmm... Why is there footage of the F-35B in this video? The Air Farce is getting the "A" model only. The "B" and "C" are going through flight test at Pax River Maryland, not Edwards.
On another note, a comment on the future has begun... It has. the first production F-35 flew last week. < All others have been prototypes/test aircraft.
At first I was not a fan of the F-35 and felt that it was ugly, and tried to put too much into one package. But it's really grown on me, and I hope that it can be a big success story of the US Air Force. Good job LockMart.
Tyrannobeast 1 month ago
NEVER SAW SUCH A BEAUTIFUL VIDEO ON YOUTUBE!!!!
gimme that plane! =O
IchmampfdeinGehirn 1 month ago
Plus this plane's sensors are going to be unprecedented. I saw a video the other day showing the distributed apeture system on this plane picking up a rocket being launched from 800 miles away. If those infrared sensors on the DAS can pick up infrared signals from that far away 360 degrees around the F-35, the pilot will NEVER be caught by surpise and will see anything well before it sees him.
rumbler100 4 months ago
The F-35 IMO will be one of the best fighter planes ever built. People look at the maximum speed and think this plane can't keep up with the new Sukhois (T-50 and Su-35) from a manuverability standpoint but what they fail to see is this plane does close to Mach 1.7 and maneuvers like an empty F-16 while carrying a full load of weapons (the weapons bays are being adjusted to carry 6 AMRAAMS now). Put 6 missiles on a Su-35 and let me see if its still doing all those fancy air show maneuvers.
rumbler100 4 months ago
@FryNorth Damn u are fast , well first they need to buy them and i doubt it will happen :)
Vykuk123 11 months ago
@FryNorth Wont happen.
Vykuk123 11 months ago
@USAAIRPOWER F-35 wont be using Meteor missile , sorry boy. Its simple commercial strategy to hold the european sovereignty.
Vykuk123 1 year ago
Hmm... Why is there footage of the F-35B in this video? The Air Farce is getting the "A" model only. The "B" and "C" are going through flight test at Pax River Maryland, not Edwards.
On another note, a comment on the future has begun... It has. the first production F-35 flew last week. < All others have been prototypes/test aircraft.
P3SuperBee 1 year ago
@LockheedMartinVideos is the f35 able to safeguard the world against an impending alien/extra terrestrial attack???
madscientistify 1 year ago
Hope too fly one of these in the future...such an awesome aircraft. Glad that Canada is getting them.
master09shredder 1 year ago