TomcatViPNice read but this
, or of equipping each foreign combat system with its own converter to allow it to connect to the Combat Cloud,” Lt. Gen. Taprest reports.
looks Weird..
TomcatViPWrong link
TomcatViPFalse interpretation creates half the problem: there is no tracking. No more that your Ma can do if you keep your mouth shut. Website read data that are openly BROADCASTED.
Broadcasting is part of democracy today. Maybe some procedure have to be adjusted at atc level to better offer a choice what and where to broadcast but this is purely a civilian problem. Not a military threat.
TomcatViPThanks!
TomcatViPOn the same theme (in Israel)
The students are set to become the teachers
David “Chip” Berke, a retired US Marine Corps Lt. Col. who flew F-18s off aircraft carriers, the F-22 Raptor, and became an F-35 squadron commander who helped write the book on F-35 tactics, said the new pilots represent the first batch of true fifth-generation fighters.
“Guys like me and everyone who’s ever transitioned” from flying a legacy airplane like an F-16, F-15, or F-18, are “always going to bring forward some habits,” from the old jet, said Berke. “A lot of those habits are going to be wrong.”
Berke often likens the gap between an F-18 and an F-35 to the gap between a wall phone and an iPhone, in that the F-35 represents such a game change that it takes some figuring out just how to use the fundamentally different set of capabilities.
Just as an aging generation is struggling with adapting to iPhones and giving up old habits, legacy pilots also carry outdated habits with them to the F-35, severely limiting their performance, according to Berke.
“They’re going to be the best, most effective tacticians,” Berke said of the new generation of pilots. Legacy pilots are “never going to be as good as them,” said Berke.
For once, the F-35 will get an objective viewing by pilots not biased towards old school fighter jets.
“Every single thing everyone has ever said that’s a limitation of the F-35 has been wrong,” said Berke, who explained “they don’t understand the airplane.”
“They take this template they used in the past” to judge the F-35, Berke said. This leads to heated debates about thrust-to-weight ratios, wing loading, and other complicated metrics used to judge fighter performance.
But according to Berke, people who try to judge the F-35 by say, an F-14’s standards, are “wrong all the time.”
“The biggest limitation for the F-35 is that pilots are not familiar with how to fly it. They try to fly the F-35 like their old airplane,” Berke said.
With a new generation of pilots who bring a fresh, unencumbered look to the F-35, it looks as though the students are set to become the teachers.
Source:
i-HLS.com
TomcatViPThe RAAF would effectively raise a squadron a year during transition as its 72 planes arrive.
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“By the time we expect to declare final operating capability at the end of 2023, all 72 jets will be in Australia, based at Williamtown (two squadrons) and RAAF Base Tindal (one squadron) near Katherine in the Northern Territory,” he said. About $1.5 billion is being spent on construction or upgrading for JSF facilities.“The facilities work at Williamtown is continuing at pace and every time I visit I’m impressed,” AVM Gordon said. “The next major facility under construction is No 2 Operational Conversion Unit, which will include Australia’s F-35A Integrated Training Centre for aircrew and maintainer training. It’s quite an impressive building, with a number of simulator bays, classrooms and presentation areas, as well as a flight line and a seven-aircraft hangar”
AVM Gordon’s JSF Division sits within the department’s Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group, and its team includes RAAF, public service and contractor workers. Having such a combined workforce was “the way of delivering acquisition and sustainment into the future”, he said.
The team had helped achieve, in January 2017 a contract price of less than $US100 million a plane for the next eight aircraft, for the first time, he said. “We have to ensure a lot of pieces, such as the training and logistics systems, are in sync with the aircraft,” he said. “As a result, I’m not solely focused on the arrival of the first aircraft. My focus is on delivering the whole-of-life capability to air force and Defence broadly with a 35-to-40-year view.”
Source:
The Australian.com
TomcatViPLockheed Martin declares that the F-35 is the aeroplane providing the greatest number of advantages, compared to the competition.
[…]the aeroplane is more modern than the other two, and will have a longer lifespan. Moreover it will be produced on a larger global scale, with Lockheed Martin’s ambition being to ultimately produce a total of 3,000 globally.
If it were to take up Lockheed Martin’s offer, Jack Crisler promises, “Belgium will be able to benefit from this large-scale programme. It is a great opportunity.” Moreover, agreements have been signed with Belgian industry, in particular ASCO Industries in Zaventem, in response to government concerns around obtaining a return on investment if Belgium were to purchase this aeroplane.
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partnerships with Belgian companies existed even before Belgium made known its wish to replace its F-16s, within spheres such as handling, information systems and training. Moreover, the current fighter plane programme for the Belgian Ministry of Defence has enabled the development of significant collaboration between Belgium and the United States, for example Sonaca, Sabca and Sabena Aerospace.The Ministry of Defence adds the country’s aeronautical expertise is renowned worldwide, thanks to the F-16,
Source:
Brussels Times.com
TomcatViPNATO buyers to meet with Airbus over billions in A400M fines
Airbus will meet with several NATO members on Feb. 5 in London to discuss reductions to fines imposed on the company […] Technical problems in manufacturing, specifically with cracking in the engine’s gearbox, have put the project years behind schedule. As a result, Germany’s share of costs have risen from an expected $10 billion to nearly $12 billion.
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Airbus paid $2.6 billion to cover financial penalties and slow deliveries in 2016, adding to the nearly $6.2 billion the company has paid in penalties since accepting the A400M contract in 2010.[…] Airbus received a $4.3 billion bailout from […] seven countries in 2010.
Source:
DefenseNews.com
TomcatViPwrong link 😉
TomcatViPRussian Frogfoot down in Syria – Pilot killed by Syrian rebels
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said there had been dozens of Russian air strikes in the area over the past 24 hours.
Russia’s defence ministry said the pilot had survived the crash but was killed by “terrorists” on the ground. It said it was making all possible efforts to retrieve the body.
There are several reports that Russia has now fired cruise missiles into Idlib province from navy vessels in the Mediterranean.
It is not yet known which group shot the plane down. One social media video posting showed a body said to be that of the pilot.
However, the Russian defence ministry said the plane had come down in an area controlled by the al-Qaeda linked jihadist group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham.
Manpad:
The report on the ministry’s Zvezda TV says preliminary information indicates the plane was shot down […] on Saturday by a portable ground-to-air missile.
Sources:
The BBC.com
The Washington post
TomcatViPF-35 doesn’t just carry bombs. It also sows doubt.
Source (as seen on SecretProject.co.uk)
https://special-ops.org/op-edge/why-israels-new-f-35-stealth-fighters-are-a-game-changer/
TomcatViPWhat is the cruise speed of a typhoon with a bomb load? ( inf to f35)
What are the surviving chances of a Typhoon in a contested airspace? (vastly < F35)
What are the cost of operating and buying a Typhoon? (aprox. equal f35)
How many support aircraft are needed for each Typhoon offensive mission? (qty vastly sup. to f35)
What are the capabilities brought by a Typhoon squadron to a country defense? (inf. to f35)
End of Arguments
TomcatViPInteresting picture b/w. Look at the LEVCON* differential braking with the extra lift generated on port side canceled by moving the ailerons up… In effect the plane is turning around it’s yaw axis 😉
*I wonder if that now infamous trick (differential camber) will be pasted in the Airbus/Dassault design that seems to be fitted with similar LEVCON’s
TomcatViPDon’t forget that its alleged Mach 7 top speed would give it a fair range in a boost-glide profile.
TomcatViPprobably that the 40km range is what you should look for: it might describe the maximum theoretical range at max theoretical alt, hence the one where the booster is fully expended to gain some altitude before the internal engine of the missile take-over)
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