“I agree that the F35 program is something that god willing will never be repeated again”
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Australia did not cancel its F-35 order. It decided that buying a few F-35Bs instead of F-35As wasn’t worth it because it would cost too much to upgrade their ships to carry them.
My impression has been that most F-16 pilots would prefer going WVR against a Su-27 in a F-35 than doing SEAD/DEAD against double digit SAMs in a F-16 even if the thing only ends up flying as well as a F-18.
I posted this in the other thread but where are the “far superior numbers”?
Quit whining and double dip. YOU can be one of those pampered contractors making six figures in Nevada and double that in Bahrain.
“My problem with the F-35 is that it was sold, internationally atleast (which is relevant for me as an Australian) as a true replacement for the F/A-18 and F-16 when in actual fact in many areas it won’t perform aswell, while that is not so much as a problem for the USAF with their F-22 it is for us and they way in…
“Now, the big problem is that improved versions of Su-27 are more or less equal to F-35 in dogfighting. That is if we count only guns. It gets much worse with missiles - R-73 and helmet thingy were some of the best in Russian tech. In the 90s helmet visor was quickly copied by the West, that shows a lot. I’d dare to…
“There is nothing he f-35 can do in cas that a strike eagle can not of which we have 200 that will be in inventory till 2040.”
F-105 had 27.5 air to air kills against Migs against 17 losses. The vast majority of the 334 losses was to SAMs and AAA. In a sustained fight the ability to operate in a SAM heavy environment will dictate survival and mission success rates.
If you read the report the F-35 has a decent high AoA maneuver and is happiest at 20-26 degrees AoA where the control laws are still funky.
Which is why they aren’t in Guam but in Kadena and RAND’s analysis was complete bullshit.
Wow, imagine my surprise that there’s a another “the pentagon are idiots” article on FA.
Of course they do. With multiple warheads. But they still need a DMPI...and a couple dozen or so miles down the road is one in the top 10 of places to nuke.
Wikipedia has a high res version.
Lol...if the Russians nuke the closest target to my house (oh yeah...it most certainly is on the list) with a Topol (800 KT) I probably live...briefly anyway. If the Chinese nuke the closest target to my house with a Dong Feng-5 (3 MT) I don’t and my kids burn.
The end of the end pre-boom is kinda pretty too.
The Indian Navy is buying US-2s so whatever restrictions doesn’t seem to apply anymore.
2nd or 3rd vote for an existing airplane that works (US-2) vs a new one based on an old one with lots of expensive looking question marks.
1. The B-61 “article” was a complete mess and unable to generate a coherent argument beyond “nukes bad”. There are rational reasons to believe that the B-61 Mod 12 is not a great use of money but none were presented in that article. It was not written by Tyler or Michael. The issue can be intelligently argued both for…