That, depends on which mode the AGP-63(V3) are oprating in.

The APG-63(V)3 does not have the same LPI modes that the APG-81 & 77 enjoy.

First 3 words say it all “An unnamed source“. Add to that the fact that neither the “expert’s” name nor the parameters of the simulation were given, it does not surprise me that someone can setup a scenario in which the F-35 comes out on teh bottom.

btw, its rather impressive the way you twist things permanently.. an article says: “this is the problem and this is the way it affected the program”, you come and say “that article says how it does NOT affect the program”

they tell you they found a crack they had to fix and airframes are out of the particular testing they should have performed, you come an say “it was done on purpose”

Sorry, in other threads I reference it as no significant delay and I forgot to state the same here. BTW, Did you miss the last sentence of the quote?

“BF-3 and -5 (and BF-01 by the end of Dec) are available to do Stovl work, so this is not holding us up,” McFarlan says.

Now, one can wonder why, if the weakness was discovered several years ago, why they didn’t make those modifications earlier.

Once the crack started to form, the SDD program would continue to monitor the crack in order to assess it’s source and potential damage in totality. Only after the tests were completed could the SDD program determine the best permanent fix to put in place. Once a fix was designed, they would then have to test that fix in order to decide its impact on the rest of the aircraft. This is why there was no quick fix.

It shows it is never a good idea to buy LRIP examples in numbers till most of the testing is not finished.

The DoD decided that the benefit of a faster deployment (eg high concurrency) was more important than potential upgrades to LRIP aircraft (btw, this crack only affected SDD airframes).

Flight test airplanes are specially intrumented for specific testing duties. After a few hundred flight hours, their test flights are finished, the planes are deactivated and sent to museums.

The SDD aircraft will not likely see a museum for decades to come. The reason is that they will be needed for testing the Block upgrades as they come out. They may retire the F-35s that do not have mission computers sooner than the rest though.

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The F-35B’s lift-fan & door should stand up pretty well to birdstrikes. Besides, there is nothing in the fan to “flame out” or otherwise lose performance when struck.

The E-2D is a rotating AESA dish.