What is known about the F-35 is that it is going to need 40-50 manhours per hour of flight.
http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/feature/5/179243/navair-projects-f_35-to-need-50-maintenance-hours-per-flight-hour.html

Please stop quoting any research done by Defense-Aerospace.com as it is not only biased, but plain just wrong and often does not provide sources.

For example, he included the Direct Maint Man Hours (DMMH) for the F-22 (ie a requirement of 12) in hopes that you would think that what the contract entailed had anything to do with DMMH. However, when you look at the solicitaton you will quickly realize that what it covers is off-site support (ie why it’s a civilian contract).

Here are just a few quotes from the solicitation:

This Sole Source contract will be awarded to Lockheed Martin Corporation, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company (LM Aero), Fort Worth, TX, for non-recurring and recurring sustainment support for all fielded F-35 aircraft for FY18-19.

The material and non-recurring sustainment activities include: Training Material and Infrastructure, Initial Spares, Support Equipment, Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS) Material and Infrastructure, Site Surveys and Site Activation Activity, Depot Activation, Reliability, Maintainability and Health Maturation, and the Structural Integrity Program.

All recurring sustainment support and PBL Operations for the United States Air Force (USAF), United States Marine Corps (USMC), and United States Navy (USN), non-U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Participants and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers, to include: Program Management, Sustainment Integration Activities, Systems and Sustaining Engineering, Product Support Management, ALIS Maintenance and Operations, Fleet Management, Security Management, Joint Technical Data Management, Low Observable Management, Training and Training Support, Training Systems Operations, Support Equipment Support, Supply Support and Management Services, Industrial Operations, Warfighter Support, Support of Customer Unique Requirements, Ferry of Aircraft, Engineering Change Management, Support of the United States Reprogramming Laboratory, and DMS/MS support.

In other words, this covers everything that the service’s own technicians do not do like off-site repairs & rebuilding of parts, training, etc.

1st Time look at the F135’s combined afterburner & radar blocker.

Also, like the F119 augmentor, the F135 augmentor is stealthy: The design of the
two engines’ augmentors places multi-zone fuel injection into curved vanes which eliminate
conventional spray bars and fl ame holders and block the line of sight to the turbine when
looking into the engine from behind.

http://militaryrussia.ru/forum/download/file.php?id=28256

DDM-NG does not send the video images to the avionics. It is a drop in replacement for the previous system and only provides more accurate detection and tracking due to it’s improved sensors. They will have to upgrade the datalinks and avionics before the rest of the avionics can use the raw video image feeds. This is a similar issue with the F-22 which also uses IIR based MAWS but the avionics only gets track data from the sensors, not the raw video feed.

“You can’t prove a negative” is the same as saying “The absence of evidence is the evidence of absence”. In other words, they have never claimed that it was a feature so it’s safe to say that it’s not a feature. This is in the same vein as my long held belief that the F-35 did not have a towed decoy. It was not until this year that BAE gave us the details to the system and looking back at budget docs shows that it was in Block2B and part of the USMC’s IOC.

Here is what has been published about the Mig-35’s SOAR

SOAR – System consist of two stations, one on engine’s gondola, second on the top of the fuselage, behind the cabin. It detects rocket launches and shows the direction from which the missile is coming. The threat is also signalled by vioce. It can detect Stinger/Igla from 10km, a2a missiles from 30km, big surface to air missiles from 50km. SOAR was also developed in NII PP Institute.

Info on DDM-NG

The concept behind DDM NG is the ability to detect incoming attacking missiles from any direction and angle of attack with regard to the host aircraft. It will succeed the current DDM system on the Rafale as a “form, fit and function” replacement. DDM NG incorporates a new infrared array detector which enhances performance with regard to the range at which a missile firing will be detected, offers improved rejection of false alarms and gives an angular localisation capability which will be compatible with the future use of Directional Infra Red Counter Measures (DIRCM). With two sensors, each equipped with a fish-eye lens, DDM NG provides a spherical field of view around the aircraft.

http://www.mbda-systems.com/press-releases/even-greater-protection-for-the-rafale-thanks-to-ddm-ng/
Note lack of any new feature or mention of video imagery.

The Eurofighter does not even have an IR based MAWS (tranche 3 maybe???) so no contest there.

i dont think its the only MAWS that can track a space rocket under power tho

Instead of guessing, try Googling and provide a link if you find it.

DAS lost track on the space rocket at burnout, dont count on tracking with low/moderate IR radiation

WHAT.. it lost track of a non-burning rocket at 900+nm.. say it aint so!!!!

FAIL

CANCEL

What.. wait…

What do you mean it’s the only MAWS in existence that can even do that?

Next thing you know they’ll tell us it’s a failure since it can’t track orbiting satellites. 😉

Just plain no.

EODAS is much better than “standard MAWS” and anyone with eyeballs can tell the difference.

The Major’s “look outside” quote has to do with the whole “see through the floor” feature which is a tertiary feature at best.

Of course you have specific information to support this claim no?

Because they’ve already stated that the shape recognition algorithms allow for that very thing at ranges that would make visual ID impossible.

Not only that but once the target is being tracked, EM emissions from it will also help to ID it. This is one of the reasons why the F-35 has 3 times the parameters to ID a target than the F-22.

I know about EOTS+, any links for EODAS+?