I painted Russian light fighter with a big cruise missile. Therefore, it was forced to move forward, “the nose landing gear” and the pilot cabin. To the length of the aircraft has not increased, he pushed back the radar.
American aircraft can be done on the classical scheme, with radar in the nose.

Don’t tell me you’re trying to mount that missile on that plane lol! 🙂

Radar Antennas on the left and right of the cockpit.

What’s the size of your antennas? They look small.

fuselage volume does not allow to keep a bomb in the weapons bay. To increase the volume of the fuselage is required to increase the take-off weight.

I think I’d make a bomb with at least the equivalent of a mk-83 in terms of firepower. For instance with a more boxy shape than the Mk-80s series. The bomb could be 3.6m long to fit in a bay designed for an AMRAAM.

The JSF has to be able to carry bombs with a relatively big firepower.

the other thing you could do is put some IR reflectors or something on the bomb, making it easy to spot with an IR camera
that way the aircraft can also track the bomb visually with its camera, locking on onto the reflectors. this gives the aircraft more information on the bomb’s flight path

That could be an idea, I don’t know the precision that targetting pods have, would it be enough? Maybe the targetting system can use a laser rangefinder to have the distance. Of course with targetting systems you might have restrictions with clouds and fog.

Why bother modifying the engine for a higher bypass ratio? Just use the F119 as-is, or with improvements that can be drop-fit to F-22.

Because range would have been better with a higher BP ratio for the strike role. I was talking about cancelling the ATF in 1991, and building a single engine derivative right away. Specs would have been the ability to maintain mach 1.2 w/o AB, with 6 internal missiles if possible. HMS capable ASAP. A sort of single engine F-22.

Point is, the F-22 was even TOO good for its time, and only 187 were built. But of course a lot of things were hard to predict 25 years ago!

The near future will focus on manned unmanned teaming apparently. I am pretty sure the USAF has said they wanted to use the unmanned F-16s as munition trucks for the the F-35. For a2a I’m not sure the link-16 would be fast enough, but it may well be considering that the AIM-120D can get its targetting data from link-16.

Omg..
The sheer amount of ignorance is dazzling.

In 2014, Assad was ELECTED the president of Syria. What does that tell you? So its up to US to decide whom is going to be president in other countries now.. Hurray for USA democracies and double standards!
If Any Country want to favor Russia, well so what..? Huh, are you telling me that its reason enough to go to war??

As for the Kurds, i actually like them, and i really hope they get a say in Syria future.
But has not US supplied them with large stocks of weapons and advisors? Another “puppets” of USA to use your own words here.

As for your moronic proposal to arm imigrants.. have you spoken to them? News flash!! They don’t want to do it. Why should they!
I find your lack of logic and spaced ideas disturbing..

The Freaking ISIS is not Syria or Russia fault. Its a very bad spot to start pointing fingers.

I’m done with this debate with you.

Assad is the same kind of president as your “President” Putin ex KGB director, half president half dictator.

Assad has violated the human rights of his population so many times we’ve lost the count.

Tortures, executions of opponents are part of his way of governing:
Report of Amnesty International.

I think that if there were a concerted effort from all the partners, western countries, Russia, Arab countries against Assad and ISIS, the migrants would surely see a real possibility of freeing their country and would fight. But the way it is now it is such a mess that the only thing they can do is flee. Russia is partly responsible for this desperate situation.

Yes i knew most of A-10 history, thank you.
If you read my first post, i questioned what anyone would use the gun on A-10 on towel heads with a smaller CAS platform. Beside from the fact, it can’t be done.
The GAU-8 is massive. That gun was designed for the purpose of taking out armoured collums against Soviet.

I’m not sure, but i do not think they still use depleted Uranium tip on those rounds these days.

Anyway. My point was, its not a very common type of ammo that is widely used. Hense, its not cheap at all.
When a A-10 first open up his gun, he mostly if not always return to base depleted, so its not a matter of a “few rounds”.

The GAU-8 uses an HEI round, the PGU-13/B. An improved variant has been developped:
http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2008gun_missile/6337GimmyKirk.pdf

The GAU-8s are already available from the USAF boneyard, so they they come free. With this munition, it is a highly effective and accurate weapon. The GAU-8 might sound a little old tech but for that kind of mission it is still praised by the pilots.

But why would you care about precision when you can use cluster bombs right?

Even the APKWS costs close to $30000 per unit. Its cost is likely to go down but it will still remain much more costly that a gun strafe.

https://defensetech.org/2016/10/19/navy-orders-laser-guided-rockets/

I bet they could build a relatively light plane built around a GAU-8, around 6.5 tons empty with 1/3 the operational cost of an A-10, with one drum (575 rounds) instead of 2, plus 6 external hardpoint, for 2 500lbs bombs and 4 lighter weapons. That could be very cost-effective for low intensity scenario, because it wouldn’t use a lot of PGMs.

I am sure the A-10 pilots would love that!!!