It's good to hear from such guys who fly such birds, they know their shit. He was right about bailing on the F-35 a decade ago but it's too late now. We should have looked at another air frame a long time ago.
The F-35 and it's successor might be the last manned fighter/bombers. Hell the F-35 might be the last. The limiting factor is the pilot as we can only take so many G's but you still need someone to make that decision to pull the trigger. 2050 will be fighter drones in the USAF if not sooner.
That article was incredibly carefully worded. Note not one kill for an F-35 is confirmed. I'd bet they were all from Raptors and *cough* legacy aircraft with the lame duck 35 acting as a glorifed awacs/ew aircraft.
Re: JSF/F-35...time to eject.
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 9:30 pm
by Dr. Pain
I would say you are on the money there Jamo. The F-35 has that network capacity to work as awacs/ew but it's so limited on the amount of missiles it can carry.
They need to put it against SU-35's. They cart a dozen missiles each aircraft and throw 3 to 4 at a time at you. But that would make them look bad.
Jesus Tapdancing Christ it just gets worse and worse. Any other industry and I'd suspect the whole thing to simply be a scam.
Surely there are some treason charges to be laid here?
Re: JSF/F-35...time to eject.
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2017 2:18 am
by wobblysauce
They have spent so much money.. it would just be a loss.
Now it is throw money at it to work.
Re: JSF/F-35...time to eject.
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 4:43 pm
by Montey
Am interesting alternative to the F35... the F15SE.
A proven air-frame with key modifications that bring its capabilities more inline with the F35, or Boing attempting to flog a dead horse?
Re: JSF/F-35...time to eject.
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 12:15 am
by wobblysauce
Well, they currently work now and with a few tweak/upgrades there still in front of some up and comers. As the other main competition is delayed so heavily.
We might have a real problem with spare parts for the F-35A. Beyond the US there is no distributors for spare parts. It won't be mission capable 48% of the time. It's looking like the spare parts program for international buyers will not be ready until 2024. They also keep adding to the aircraft with additional equipment so it's now not going to reach performance bench marks.
The rapid rate of aircraft development is not what it use to be so this could be a very long process that most likely will be overtaken.