fazer01
Rank 1 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 22
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Originally Posted by Erez
I also believe that the F-35 should be able to deal with if they ever will.
I think that Eurofighter is far superior in air to air combat than the F-35
Fazer 01 I totally agree with you. I think the JSF is a compromise (between three services requirements). Of course, this airplane will have up-to-date electronics and missiles, and a very, very powerful engine (nearly 50 000 ibs ?? of thrust).
This is good, but the aircraft is still a compromise between VTOL (for the USMC) naval version (USN) and Stealth (for the USAF.)
I know this is not the same airplane : there’s three differents versions (A, B, C).
But the different abilities needed by the three services deeply influence the plane, and not in good way.
I think Stealth+VTOL+multirole (air to air+air to ground) is too much for the same airplane, even with differents versions. It’s because these three requirements are conflicting.As a consequence, you need to make compromises.
The striking example with the F35 is ground attack : you need a heavy bomb load (for example, cruises missiles like the Scalp or SLAM)or LGB).
In a F-35, to preserve stealth, missiles must be on the bomb bays. The trouble : as the plane is not very big, bomb bays are little, and you have a reduced bomb load.
On non-stealth planes, you can put the missiles under the wings; if you do that with a JSF, you kill stealth.
Worst, for ground attack you need a two seater (to avoid too much workload for the pilot). Because of conflicting requirements, there will be no two-seat F-35…
And for interception… I red many times that in the future USAF inventory, the interceptor will be the F22; the JSF is more an attack plane.
that’s why I think that a (compromise) F35 will be no match against a pure interceptor like the Typhoon
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