Fun Fact: The Spitfire had what i call a yokel-stick.
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It’s for internal consumption. Even if nine out of ten people laugh in your face, that tenth person, who now believes his country can produce military technology on par with the US, is a big win. Censorship is still a big deal in Iran. If they show thirty seconds of that trash during the evening news, alot of Iranians…
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Hell yes. Dunno how you can highlight engines of that time frame and forget the R-2800. I prefer my Double Wasp in this flavor :
Warrant Officers are not enlisted, and therefore not NCOs. There are million different pipelines.
I’m wondering if we won’t in the future though. Using the F-35 to designate and cue weapons for missile truck following S-Hornets would be a stunning leap forward for naval aviation assets.
“Yeah i’m not holding my breath for autonomous machines being given the ability to make kill commands themselves, even if the tech existed. We don’t even let human fighter pilots do that most of the time right now...”
It’s significantly more than a name change. It’s basically a whole new airplane. Unfortunately it’ll never go operational unless they secure some export partners as the Navy said they weren’t interested.
Well it’s a heavier aircraft, but mainly its because of the underwing pylons. There was some kind of issue, don’t remember what, but they had to cant the pylons at an angle and its produces tons of drag.
I’m not sure exactly. I got promoted and don’t really spend much time as an analyst anymore. As a result, I don’t really see all the obscure things like that anymore.
Man where to start haha. You should do some research on that F-16 vs F-35 drama (which is what I assume you’re alluding to). Turns out it was simply a test and tune for the F-35. Not a mock dogfight where an F-16 won. In fact the exact opposite is true. When F-35s flew against F-16s at Green Flag they dominated.
Wait what? I know Tyler has been beating that drum forever. He also seems to think it’s a relatively new practice. We’ve been doing it for decades. In fact it’s about all we do because it’s far cheaper and more efficient. The cost and time frame would be ten-times worse than they are presently. What Tyler advocates is…
It’s been discussed a million times and the consensus is always “not necessary”. Which I agree with. There is no reason to undertake all of that. It wouldn’t just be engines. They’d have to completely redesign the wing box which would be a huge undertaking.
Fully loaded, as in max fuel and a weapon on every station? Probably not a sea level but at high altitude it can.
IMO you’ve got it backwards. I don’t doubt for one second China is going to field both of those aircraft and that they’ll be pretty good. For monetary reasons, I see the Chinese being far more capable of fielding a true 5th gen aircraft in large enough numbers to make a difference.
Not gonna happen. Not in my lifetime. Japan has almost nothing to gain and any gains by China would be completely offset by the problems it would create. The Chinese like money. They aren’t gonna get into a fight just to shoot themselves in the foot. Sanctions would be so damning it would set China back generations.
Im surprised they went full 3-D thrust vectoring. The general consensus is that 2-D, like what’s on the Raptor, is the way to go. Adding that 3rd dimension creates a yawing effect, and takes maneuvers that will already rob energy, and makes them worse while the benefits are very minimal.
He’s a lockheed shill for pointing out things that are 100% factual? You’re a knob.
They are absolutely bad for an aircraft’s RCS.
The F-35 is nowhere near as bad as people want to make it out to be. In fact it’s really good. The F-22 is the better air superiority fighter, but that’s it. F-22 numbers would be a far bigger issue if the F-35 couldn’t protect itself, but that’s not the case. While air-to-air missions might not be it’s bread and…