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Does anyone want to second my recommendation for Scooter to become a moderator?

Al

Sure. We could always use more LockMart press releases on here. Why not?

Agreed.

Since the F135 is based on the F119 which has 35,000-39,000 (or more?) pounds of thrust, I bet the F135 with increased bypass has significantly more than 39k. Even 43k seems low. Static of course.

The real thing is the mission that the engines are designed for. The 119 is designed for medium and high altitude performance. The F-135 is designed for medium and low altitude loiter. Neither would do the others mission very well unless you what to suck a lot of fuel or loose power. Both are tuned specifically for their own airframe.

This gives you a good overview of some of the technology involved.

http://www.f-16.net/f-16_forum_viewtopic-t-9268-start-0.html

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Ah, yes. Here comes the Eric Palmer inspired idea of putting a towed decoy on a VLO fighter.

And here is L-M doing everything it can to improve EMCON on their VLO fighters.

By all means, let’s have a radio wave emitting decoy dragging along behind the aircraft then…

Once again, a base-line configuration is being assumed to be the ONLY possible configuration.

I’ve said enough on that already.

Here is what an ASRAAM missile seeker sees:

looking at a QRF-4 target drone (F-4 Phantom derivative).

Since when? In any case, F-35 will be able to carry 500lbs variants of the Paveway and JDAM. These most certainly are CAS weapons and indeed are the only CAS weapons (beside guns) RAAF uses…

My ears perk up when I hear a Defence Cheerleader Lemming use my name in vain.

First, think about it. VLO isn’t something that is 100% on at all times with multiple possibilities of facing toward the emitter. Since the F-35 is designed to be low and medium altitude efficient, including the goal of excellent loiter in that grouping ( makes sense for an interdiction aircraft)… and the fact that it was never designed with high altitude super-cruise in mind…and the idea of affordable export friendly stealth… it is going to have more times that it is NAKED to the threat. In it’s stock trim it will only be able to jam in the field of view of it’s radar and within the bandwidth of that radar.

A towed decoy makes perfect sense for radar terminal homing missiles and support gear. Fact is it has proven itself in the ALE-50 form over Kosovo in 1999. And the ALE-55 is a leap ahead and can be integrated.

Poo poo the towed decoy on the Just So Farcical at your own peril. Add to that it was never designed to stand up to the threat that the F-22 was. Don’t believe it? Better talk to people that know these things like the USAF threat evaluators. JSF JPO on that btw is compromised because they are trying to sell something.

As for the person who said that the 2000lb JDAM isn’t a CAS weapon, better check history on that one. It is. And has been used as such frequently.

Also when counting up A2A ammo, consider that the F-22 has 2 AIM-9s and a heck of a lot more gun ammo. Important because if it is a B or C F-35, it might have left the deck that day without its gun.

6 AMRAAMs in an F-35? Sales hype fantasy until it is demonstrated hardcore.

http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj02/sum02/lambeth.html#lambeth

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/raytheons-ale50-little-buddy-decoys-02573/

Which is convenient if one can absolutely predict the future. Man has always been bad about that. “Be prepared” is a better goal. Which, with all the spending on Operations: USELESS DIRT 1 & 2 and a budget that is trillions in debt, the air power roadmap has been driven into the ditch by politicians and group-thinking flag ranks that the taxpayer spent tons of cash on by sending them to “war” colleges that teach tripe.

Given all that and more, that is a big hole to dig out of. If some have their way, the message to potential enemies should be, that over the next ten and twenty plus years, U.S. air power can be challenged. Thinking that gaps can be filled by stupid stunts like trying to drag 170 some clapped out “golden Eagles” to 2025, large quantities of tankers that are over 50 years old and just one catastrophic event away from grounding a the whole fleet just to name a few fools errands, is putting the U.S. in danger of not being able to prosecute future expeditionary wars without running into some risk and worse, nasty surprises.

But glory be we have change, even if it requires a waiver. Yup the future of U.S air power is linked to all that.

You have a right to pursue happiness. Not have it provided to you by the government.

But back to the topic of the new world order Obama edition. It will be interesting to see what happens to the U.S. military while trying to pay for all the government largess. And well with Hillary Clinton as SOS, I know I feel secure. :dev2:

the F-111 stopped the East Timor intervention from turning into anything more serious. the RF-111C has a capability we will never have again. I dont know why you mention china and vietnam, we haven’t worried about that since 1973…..
But Indonesia? all conventional warfare training for australian forces is based on fighting Indonesia….. whether its when we finally liberate west papua, or a disintergration of order in Indonesia that leads to a military administration…

Well, yes, you are right that since the RF-111 was retired that the international newswires have been adrift with news of massing Indonesian forces ready to assail the shores of Queensland. Sort of an Israel vs. Gaza situation you have there.

Now I get it……losing 20, twenty year old airframes in your combat force and replacing the entirely with 124 modern aircraft with better AEW, tanking, and support and Australia will end as we know it.

Gotcha

What better AEW? Wedgetail is on life support until the vendor figures out how to cobble it together. It is now of course very late.

Define modern aircraft. One batch ( The Super Hornet ) is obsolete in airframe performance before it it arrives. The only reason it works for the U.S.N. is they have it slotted into the biggest street gang on the planet. By itself it risks getting killed inside the next 20 years if there are real threats. I suppose the other 100 you refer to is the F-35? Good luck on that too. As that program is so early in development, no one knows what it will cost, when it will arrive and if it will work.

That is just a start, at looking at the moronic planning going on in Defence.

I take it you regard ASPI as ‘far from an official source’?
Well, I am impressed! You demand a source, then disregard the one I provide and state the exact opposite as fact without providing anything to back up your own claim!

A better point paper is here:

http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-NOTAM-051107-1.html

Be careful though… some won’t like holes being punched in the myths….;)