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November 16, 2017 at 3:57 pm in reply to: Military Aviation News #2133710

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Yes, it’s an “A” and the source page has been updated to reflect this.

First Japanese-built F-35A lands at Misawa AB

November 16, 2017 at 3:15 am in reply to: Military Aviation News #2133892

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First Japanese-Built F-35B Lands at Misawa AB

Really? Does nobody ever fact check?

November 14, 2017 at 4:31 pm in reply to: No buying the B-70 was far from the only screw up the Air Force made #2134263

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Yet another reason why the dev of the GD version of the AAAM should have continued (tube loaded, tightly packed, & tilting bed launcher).

November 14, 2017 at 4:00 pm in reply to: No buying the B-70 was far from the only screw up the Air Force made #2134305

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Given Northrop’s work & patent on stacked internal AAMs, 9 AMRAAMs (3×3) would not be farfetched.

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https://www.google.com/patents/US4702145

November 14, 2017 at 3:48 pm in reply to: Military Aviation News #2134315

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F-16V (vs Block60) has a newer radar and a larger central display (likely due to better data fusion).

Here’s the full card.

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed/data/aero/documents/F-16_Block_70_Executive_Summary_2017.pdf

November 13, 2017 at 6:24 pm in reply to: Israel F-35 damaged. Bird collision or Syrian S-200 ? #2134810

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many are believing it

Many believe that the Earth is flat, that the US has never been to the moon, that 9/11 was an inside job, etc.. Just because an idea is believed does not give it importance, believably, credibility, etc.

November 13, 2017 at 4:22 am in reply to: Impressive Weapons Load 2 (again) #2134966

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So… indigenous “Daisy Cutter”?

November 11, 2017 at 10:09 pm in reply to: Airbus: European Future Fighter Program #2135286

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Is leagues away from doing the same thing with a GBU as another plane with a 100 miles range missile…

It can only be used at those distances if you can geolocate the target. A single 4th gen asset cannot do that. However, a single F-35 can geolocate an emitter.

As Red Flag demonstrated, a flight of F-35s was able to “fight their way in, attack the targets, and fight their way out” all while dealing with multiple, overlapping SAM environments. The pilot said that if F-16CJs would have tried that, it would have been suicide.

So yes, Red Flag has shown that an F-35 with a JDAM can do more than a 4th gen with a HARM.

November 11, 2017 at 5:57 am in reply to: Clean Rafale & Gripen RCS is 5 m2 and 3 m2. Not .05 & .03 #2135502

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The Swedes claim that the Gripen has some LO features that make it have a lower RCS than any other 4th gen jet in that size range.

Is there anything else actually in its size range?

November 10, 2017 at 10:12 pm in reply to: Airbus: European Future Fighter Program #2135592

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In your dreams.

Multiple Red Flag LFEs with difficulties set to never-before-seen levels disagree with you.

November 10, 2017 at 7:01 pm in reply to: Airbus: European Future Fighter Program #2135668

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The F-35 has already shown that it can do more with a JDAM than 4th gen can do with HARM.

This is not to say that HARM is not needed in a future fight. ATK already has an internal HARM on the drawing board (as do others).

November 10, 2017 at 3:54 pm in reply to: Airbus: European Future Fighter Program #2135764

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It still looks to big.

November 10, 2017 at 3:29 am in reply to: Airbus: European Future Fighter Program #2135924

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Proposed Compact Taurus Likely Would Fit In F-35 Bays

Lol… it would have to cut the size & weight by a third alone not to mention substantially reducing the warhead size.

That is not a “compact” version… that is an entirely different weapon.

November 9, 2017 at 10:39 pm in reply to: Airbus: European Future Fighter Program #2135942

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UIA is in Block4 so it will be in the F-35 by 2025.

Internally the LJDAM will take over the duties of the 2k Paveways so the only thing I can’t say for sure from that list is the Taurus.

Now, if they got off their a$$ and did the UIA coding for Taurus now then it would be ready in 2025.

November 9, 2017 at 7:38 pm in reply to: Airbus: European Future Fighter Program #2136029

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The thing you are forgetting is UAI and it’s the reason why you do not see a large weapons plan laid out for the F-35. It’s simply not needed.

Instead of a multi-year integration effort tied to a dedicated Block upgrade that takes tens of millions of dollars to do, UAI only takes a few months and can be immediately deployed to every F-35 (or other UAI user) in the world.

For example, every variant of JDAM is already covered under UAI along with SDB1/2 and JASSM. Foreign UAI projects in the works are JSM (Norway), SOM-J (Turkey), HGK (Turkish JDAM), French AASM, and Spear3 (UK).

http://www.dtic.mil/descriptivesum/Y2018/AirForce/stamped/U_0604602F_5_PB_2018.pdf
http://www.aselsan.com.tr/en-us/press-room/Brochures/Unmanned-Systems/HGK_ENG.pdf
http://daytonaero.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Neel-David-04-17.pdf
http://www.roketsan.com.tr/en/urunler-hizmetler/hassas-gudumlu-fuzeler/som-j-jsf-uyumlu-stand-off-muhimmati/
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