Dear sir,

hear is another link just in case you disregard the 1st once since its wiki.
http://www.answers.com/topic/supercruise

Supercruise is sustained supersonic flight of an aircraft with a useful cargo, passenger, or weapons load performed efficiently and without the use of afterburners (“reheat”).

Due to its combination of decades long scheduled service and length of time spent at supersonic speeds, the main user of supercruise was Concorde, with more time spent in supersonic, largely supercruise flight, than all of the other aircraft put together.[1]

Scooter, all I hear from you is nonsense.

The F-22 being less survivable than the F-35.

Your weak grasp of technical concepts.. including wing loading, external stores vs. internal stores.

The fact that you bandy about words like 5th generation, 4th generation, 4.5 generation; as if they mean anything in this context… The mere fact these marketing terms exist seem to make you think stating them is proof, that the F-35 is superior, in the areas of comparison you’ve made. Its quite naive and embarrassing actually.

You need to try understand that despite the F-35 being able to carry internal stores; a Eurofighter with 4 semi recessed BVRAAMS and 2 WVRAAMs and a centerline drop tank might well out-maneuver/climb/accelerate, a clean F-16/35. Eurofighter is a step improvement in kinematics over all teen designs – its not an incremental improvement.

Dear sir,

More fuel = More times on station, AB, and more time to climb. The thing your missing in your EF. F-35 comparison, is that the EF has to Use several drop tanks just to match the fuel load of the F-35. This will seriously degrade performance. The F-35 can dump fuel if it needs more energy. The Typhoon can drop tanks, but then its even even more fuel restricted. another issue is the Euro fighter dealing with High of bore sight weapons. What good is it if you can out turn me but cant out turn my missiles? When you compare a full combat loaded EF and a full combat loaded F-35 its apples to oranges.
if you wanna compare apples to apples, then you must remove the Tanks, Missiles, ect, from the Typhoon. And BTW did Typhoon ever get a gun?

Dear, sir

1. The F-35 will use a Low probability AESA radar to track the EF 1st
2. The F-35 will be able to use meteor
3. Even without the meteor, the F-35 can fire at mach 1.6
4. The F- 35 will use the hobs aim9x for close range.
5. Stealth is a proven concept

Your worried about wing loading when the Typhoon has to turn into flying
Gas can to keep up with the F-35s fuel load.

Dear sir,

1. The reason LM states that super cruise starts at mach 1.5 is that below that speecertaon parts of the plane can still have transonic flow

Dear sir,

How do think massed A-10 strikes wound fair? If there is no S-300 support could they use A-10 like Gw 1?

very interesting

Dear sir,

What does the Euro canard strike package look like, compared to the stealthy penetrating strike?

ockheed Marine Corps F-35 Gets Two Extra Years to Fix Glitc Very Happy

Tony Capaccio in Washington at [email]acapaccio@bloomberg.net[/email].

Article in Alert5.com

Defense Secretary Robert Gates will recommend giving the Marine Corps as much as two additional years to develop its version of Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 fighter to correct technical and manufacturing glitches that have delayed testing, according to two defense officials.

Gates told General James Amos, the Marine Corps commandant, of the decision in a Dec. 3 meeting on the fiscal 2012 budget, according to the officials, who asked not to be identified because the session wasn’t public.

The Marines’ short-takeoff and vertical-landing aircraft, the most complex version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, has had flight-test schedule delays, some caused by parts shortages or reliability.

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