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November 30, 2012 at 10:51 pm in reply to: F35 debate thread- enter at your own risk. #2278737

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Claims w/o sources = worthless

November 30, 2012 at 10:22 pm in reply to: F35 debate thread- enter at your own risk. #2278751

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F-35 cannot fly at Mach 1.6 with external armament

Here is where you and others continually fail. Just because it has not been publicly demonstrated, does not mean it cannot or has not happened.

btw, What is the external store that it has to fly m1.6 with?

Considering that the F-35 can cruise at m1.2 then 1.6 should not be an issue with full AB and external stores.

November 30, 2012 at 9:53 pm in reply to: F35 debate thread- enter at your own risk. #2278760

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So you are basing your “it failed” on a “may” and “The industry source said”, really ?

Very weak

Korea will not have to guess at anything as they will have the opportunity to fly alongside an F-35 while it verifies whatever spec they are concerned about. If Korea was so dead-set against the F-35 they would not be asking LM to jump through so many hoops in order to evaluate it.

November 30, 2012 at 9:36 pm in reply to: F35 debate thread- enter at your own risk. #2278765

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The Canadain controversy stems form the “fast & loose” way they made the decision to buy and the number of sheeple that have internet access 😉

In the Korean contest, the F-35 came out on top technically and only lags on offsets and tech-support for future development. Both of which have NOTHING to do with the F-35 itself. Besides, nothing official has been said about the Korean contest and IIRC, many of these types of articles came out during Japan’s contest and LM won anyways. We’ll have to wait and see.

November 30, 2012 at 9:27 pm in reply to: F35 debate thread- enter at your own risk. #2278772

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Keep dreaming…

The issues are political and not related to the F-35’s abilities. Quite frankly I look forward to an open competition where the F-35 smokes all comers. It should be interesting when Boeing/Dassault, et al try and pitch a plane that is slightly cheaper yet woefully less capable.

November 30, 2012 at 9:11 pm in reply to: F35 debate thread- enter at your own risk. #2278776

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1. Nothing official
2. Nothing official – they still have contracts for F-35s and have flying f-35s

November 30, 2012 at 9:04 pm in reply to: F35 debate thread- enter at your own risk. #2278780

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Excuses
Excuses
Excuses
Opinion

You still have not shown where

I would be happy to list all other contests where the F-35 failed.

November 30, 2012 at 8:48 pm in reply to: F35 debate thread- enter at your own risk. #2278797

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Japan: F-35 won over F/A-18E & EF
Israel: F-35 won chosen over F-15
Norway: F-35 won over EF & Gripen NG
Korea: No official decision made

November 30, 2012 at 8:27 pm in reply to: F35 debate thread- enter at your own risk. #2278802

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AMRAAM update….

Turns out it was the Tree-Huggers fault 🙂

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/raytheon-resolves-amraam-production-issues-379611/

Raytheon plans to have all AMRAAM deliveries (including Aim-120D) made by mid-2013.

November 30, 2012 at 8:24 pm in reply to: F35 debate thread- enter at your own risk. #2278807

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:rolleyes:

Oh wait, you’re serious….

November 30, 2012 at 8:02 pm in reply to: F35 debate thread- enter at your own risk. #2278821

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Several likely reasons for this price increase and your inability to understand it:

1. You have no clue about what it includes
2. Same amount of F-35s being built as previous LRIP
3. Increased buy of non-recurring items
4. Increase in Post-SDD development obligations (part of non-recurring costs)
5. Standup costs for new F-35 Units (FMS, tools, manuals, etc)
6. Inflation
7. Concurrency upgrade costs to previous LRIP
8. Blk2A Hardware upgrades (TR2)
9. You have no clue about what it includes

See a pattern?

The best info will be out in Feb when the FY2014 budget is posted.

November 30, 2012 at 7:27 pm in reply to: F35 debate thread- enter at your own risk. #2278825

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slightly off topic…

They make a .338 Norma Magnum belt-fed MG 🙂

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2012/05/16/338-nm-lightweight-medium-machine-gun-lwmmg/

November 28, 2012 at 11:48 pm in reply to: F35 debate thread- enter at your own risk. #2279144

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If you read the thread and understood the initial reference to “sniper”, you would see that the F-35 was being compared to 4th gen assets with the exception of a PAK-FA (which the F-35 should beat in RCS IMHO).

Obviously at some point in the future the F-35 will go up against an enemy that has an equal footing in terms of RCS, EW, radar, etc. However, that is not likely to happen for a VERY long time. By that time, the US should already be working on (if not already deployed) a F-22/18E-F replacement.

November 28, 2012 at 8:13 pm in reply to: F35 debate thread- enter at your own risk. #2279200

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They will learn of the real number of intercepters similar late

Generally the number of attackers will be more than the number of defenders as the cost (in money, airframe hours, available airframes, etc) to keep a high number of CAP planes up at the same time is quite prohibitive.

November 28, 2012 at 7:20 pm in reply to: F35 debate thread- enter at your own risk. #2279216

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I agree, but I think you are missing my point, the inherent problems in lower bands mean AWACS may not even be able to tell the interceptors how many F-35s are in the vector.

That is true. I’d hate to be the Interceptor that thinks he is going up against 1 or 2 F-35s and finds out it’s 8 🙂
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