I read a lot of AWC stuff. Some of it good. Some of it crap and some of it looks like f16isbest wrote it. 😮

Not very much “indigenous” about the F-2 that wasn’t done with some help from Lockheed and/or some other license built technology. Indigenous in the case of Japan ( re: combat aircraft ) certainly doesn’t mean creative or original.

“game over man…”

Cancel this thing. Cancel V-22.

I want to see the rig from the second Aliens movie, that, when it lands, an AFV comes rolling out. 🙂

The F-15 can refuse to engage an F-18E/F. The reverse is not true. That speaks volumes about speed used to decide how you want to enter a fight. WVR doesn’t mean much if both sides end up with HOBS Helmet heaters.

SH is NOT an air domination machine. It is a good all weather striker.

Well Elp, you and Albert and other members of our forum are mentioning things that are showing up in stories following up the report.
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Yeah well, I have b!tched about it for a long time and know it’s whole sad story re: USAF. Been to the weather unit a few years back. One side of the flightline are H models that have done the weather mission for years. The other side of the flightline are pretty J models which are… well… pretty.. even if they can’t do the mission, they sure look nice.

Another nice thing is that you are now overloading the USAF C-130 depot management program. USAF throws sustainment issues into the lap of the depot for all kinds of fixes. Problem is that the C-130 depot can’t use C-130 like engineering fixes that worked in the past. Basically because, a J model doesn’t have a lot in common with the older, real C-130s. Because the J is “off the shelf” that means it was never designed with mil spec add ons/appliances and other things that would have made life easier when fixing problems that are associated with fielding ALL new aircraft. Almost every teething problem that comes up requires real cash. Yet kinda like the F-18E/F it was sold to the rest of the clueless congress as just being an upgraded version of the C-130 already in service. We have seen that enough now that you better see “upgrade” of an older design as an instant red flag that requires more searching for the real truth. Example FB-22 is different than F/A-22 by a large margin. You need $$$ in R&D funding to fix these things first before major production. Didn’t happen with the J model. Instead of the USAF chief of staff showing a spine and saying “No” to congress when this appeared, he went wobbly and was lead along to the administrative slaughter. What a mess.

A deployed FB-22 force in theater will sortie gen the heck out of a B-1 and the advantage that in a stiff air defense environ, an FB-22 class jet, wouldn’t be as limited. Also hanging in a JSTARS “stack” early in an air campaign when important first_night_of_the_war (or soon after ) targets are being hit, if a critical “target of opportunity” appears due to developing live intel, an FB-22 can be assigned and zip away from the stack fast and hit that target in a timely manner. ( quick response time )

It would appear that the major issues are because of the RR engines. :rolleyes:

Sauron

The only odd issues I saw with it is that the new prop / engine setup created some FOD problems, into the turbine intake. Don’t know if that was a real issue or not and/or if it was fixed.