What had i told you guys all this time ?

Britain, MBDA cut trio of missile-related deals worth $690M

In what is expected to be the final significant military equipment announcement by the British government ahead of the June 8 general election, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has revealed a set of missile-related orders with MBDA worth more than half a billion dollars.

Official go-ahead for the start of integration work on the Meteor air-to-air missile on the Lockheed Martin F-35B;… announced by Fallon at a hurriedly arranged visit to MBDA’s Stevenage, England, site on April 21….

…the Ministry of Defence is investing £539 million (U.S. $690 million) in the orders, some of which have been sitting around for months awaiting announcement….

…Fallon’s announcement at Stevenage gave the official go-ahead for the start of the integration of the Meteor missile onto the F-35B fleet now slowly being built up by the British for use by the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.

The defense secretary said that the MoD was investing £41 million into the Meteor’s integration and that the missiles would enter service on the F-35B in 2024. But the missile is expected to enter service even sooner next year when it begins to replace the Raytheon-made Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles on the Air Force’s Typhoon fleet….”

http://www.defensenews.com/articles/britain-mbda-cut-trio-of-missile-related-deals-worth-690m

Not what Halloweene was talking about. He was talking about different modes operating simultaneously

I beg to differ. See 1:32

Let’s Do More Shots

The F-35 program office is looking at adding capacity for another AIM-120 AMRAAM radar-guided air-to-air missile in each of the jet’s two weapons bays, increasing internal—and thus stealthy—missile loadout by 50 percent, program director Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan said March 22. Speaking with reporters after his speech at a McAleese/Credit Suisse conference in Washington, D.C., Bogdan said, “There is potential … to add a third missile on each side.” The upgrade would likely be part of the Block IV program of F-35 enhancements, but “that’s something I know the services and all the partners” are interested in. Bogdan said this would not require some special version of AMRAAM, but “the same AMRAAM missiles that we carry today, just an extra one; probably on the weapons bay door.” The F-35 can carry two AMRAAMs in each bay now, or a mix of AMRAAMs and Joint Direct Attack Munitions internally. “

http://www.airforcemag.com/DRArchive/Pages/2017/March%202017/March%2028%202017/Let%E2%80%99s-Do-More-Shots.aspx

@FBW: How do you suggest I read this graph, then? I really can’t make sense of the isoclines.

Ps=0 => Maximum sustained turn rate

in general, I don’t see why people are making such a huge fuss about either the F-16’s agility or the F-35’s agility. Neither are too agile by modern standards

From what i can gather, below 10K feet, the STR of F-16A is second to none

you missed my point, I wasn’t talking about values or how this or that should be calculateed and so on.. I simply reminded that we’ve been said for years, by the F-35 fan squad, that the aircraft could go and do the fighting even heavily loaded while others couldn’t

To reach the range that F-35 can using 100% internal fuel, others fighter bar the Flanker series will need to carry external fuel tank which not only increase weight but also drag and signature.

But about the F-35. Would there not be some mission profile that would lower the Fuel state of F-35?

Yes, but we only has one KPP value now and neither me or you ( or most people here ) can make accurate estimation for different conditions

And afaik, none F-35 can carry six AIM-120 internally? So that would mean a pair ext with those big hunkin pylons with it 😉

AFAIK , block 5 will be able to carry 6 internal AIM-120, there are several plan suggest that already

Who cares what % of fuel there is? Comparing at given target range vs payload vs fuel used is the only worthwhile comparison.

The fact that it represents 10, 50, 60 or 90% internal fuel is totally irrelevant. Subjectivity sucks.

Nic

Well that the whole reason for equalize afterburner time comparision