Evalu8ter, whilst your comments are entirely true, if the various government bodies that have so far prevented civilian ownership/operation of even a ground running F-4 (Collings Foundation excepted…) by a heritage group on the basis that it might enable the Iranians to keep their fleet airworthy by being a potential source of illicit spares, then i despair at the stupidity of that assumption! (by the gov, not you! 🙂 ) The Iranians, i suspect, are a little bit more savvy than that! There has been a number of reports over the years of them receiving spares clandestinely, not to mention the fact that i imagine they have managed to reverse engineer some of the spares they need…

-Dazza

A fully de-militarized F-4F was offered for sale a few months back so, i guess German F-4s aren’t subject to same (ridiculous) restrictions that ex-RAF F-4s were. If the rumours are to be believed then it could well be 38+48… As ever, until it happens take everything with a large pinch of salt!

-Dazza

The terminology used in that press release is shocking, talk about using a thousand words when a few would’ve done!

The drone was identified and targeted using mission systems sensors and the target’s “track” information was passed to the radar-seeking missile, say Lockheed.

The weapon launched from the aircraft’s internal weapons bay, acquired the target and flew an “intercept flight profile,” says Lockheed.

And since when was the AIM-120 a ‘radar-seeking’ missile?

-Dazza

p.s. Its good that its finally done its first live-fire missile test after ‘only’ nearly seven years after its first flight…

Given the amount of 747Fs, including some -8Fs which have never been delivered, that are finding their way into the desert, i’d say the market for 747 freighters is on the slide as well…

-Dazza

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/cracks-discovered-on-f-35b-bulkheads-391647/

-Dazza

You have to understand that the people that are signing up to buy the F-35, and those that will be operating it are perfectly aware of its performance specs

Rubbish, the majority of customers had already agreed to purchase the pile of crap long before the ‘lowering’ of its performance specs started to happen… And have any of those performance specs been revised upwards again? hmm…

-Dazza

Some friendly advice, this ‘jackster’ individual is remarkably like (i.e. exactly the same) as a certain ‘JSFfan’ over on the PPRuNe forums, don’t try to enter into reasoned debate or expect any kind of contrition when you prove him wrong, especially with regard to the F-35, its like banging your head against a brick wall…

-Dazza