What are those underneath the wing ? 😉
Bombs…
just kidding.. they are the elevon tandem hydraulic actuators.
Spud in your own terms if you compare the top tac-air penetrating strikers, on a 1st day package Q senario, HOW would you rate Block 4 F-35?
Versus:
Llol latest deployed version of SH
The Rafael
F-15E
Advanced F-16
Im interested in your candor.
If you had to Go down town hit a target
Within 500nms but su-27s are on standby its day light. lest even assume
SAMs wont be tracking like package Q until.the 1st bombs fall (for fear of HARM) in order to give the 4 gens a chance.
SAMS Lock and start tracking on egress. Your planes are a 4 ship, any package youd like.
It basically comes down to two package types, VLO and everything else.
Weapons will be similar with either package.
Without VLO you will be needing ISR, dedicated jammers, escorts, decoy flights, etc (I’ll post a pick below that puts it in perspective).
With a VLO package, you have more freedom to pick & chose what you engage and how you do it without a large support package. The F-35 will also be able to automatically detect, locate, classify, and share information about any militarily-relevant target it comes across whether it’s a radar that pops up, a plane taking off, a jammer going active, or a radio starting to broadcast. Obviously the relative times for each will vary. As the radars start to go up, their relevant threat cones are presented to the pilots to give them the greatest chance of egress either by attacking those radars or by locating & evading them on the way out.
As far as a Block 4 F-35, it will add more tools that will make the job easier. Besides SATCOM, ROVER, and advances in radar & other sensor modes, and the Advanced EOTS that was announced this month, we can expect more A2G munitions like JSM, Spear1 (Brimstone2) & hopefully JAGM, JSOW-C1, SDB2, LJDAM, JDAM-ER, etc. MALD-J is also available either naively or through a support assets launched well away from the front lines.
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