It is difficult to understate how much NAVAIR loathes F-35C.

They view it as an Air Force airplane shoved down their throats. Built in an Air Force factory and procured by an Air Force led Government Program Office with little input from NAVAIR.

NAVAIR will harp about every little issue F-35C has while ignoring failures of NAVAIR-led programs like Super Hornet wing drop and drag or baby Hornet aileron reversal and drag or Osprey vortex ring state and nacelle leaks/fires.

NAVAIR is extremely political because NAVAIR is a government jobs program and they are fighting to keep their jobs – all 30,000 of them. Success of a non-NAVAIR program spells disaster for continued need for NAVAIR ans its 30,000 bureaucrats.

The bottom line is to beware negative sniping coming from undisclosed “official” sources because their view is likely shaped by politics.

Or because their views are different from Air Force ones? But i guess that if they do not want C, of course it is because they are part of the swamp……..

Btw, just a question, what happened to F-35 thread? Closed?

CCI clears Reliance-Dassault joint venture

idrw.org . Read more at India No 1 Defence News Website , Kindly don’t paste our work in other websites http://idrw.org/cci-clears-reliance-dassault-joint-venture/ .

Yes actually that is plenty of bases. Can you name another country that has an air force of similar size to Australia and Canada that has more bases?

As for range, why would Australia and Canada not use the F-18 as a reference given that is what they operate now?

I am not going to bother discussing supercruise again on this forum except to point out the irony of discussing supercruise and long range interceptions in the same sentence.

If you’re talking air war then there are plenty as Sintra stated.

Doese not change the fact that F-35 is too short leg for such huge territories (in low numbers, USA will have it in large numbers).

The F-35 has essentially twice the range of the classic Hornet which it will replace in both countries (Canada obviously not certain). Both countries also have plenty of bases. In Australia’s case they have three bare bases across the north of the country in addition to the permanent bases. Canada has a number of arctic bases it uses for short periods of the year but I’d expect the number to increase as warming opens up more of the region.

That is not plenty. F18 is not a reference in terms of range. Oh i forgot: no supercruise capability (for long range interceptions)

Australia is 100% first day. They train with and are embedded with US forces. Canada hasn’t spent the money to have their classic Hornets as capable as the US and Australians and may not be first day strikers in a near peer scenario.

No. First in is a NATO label meaning “alone”. 3 nations : UK, France and USA.

Panel: Trump Comments on F-18, F-35 Could Foreshadow New Defense Priorities

https://news.usni.org/2017/01/23/panel-trump-comments-f-18-f-35

Air Marshal Arup Raha praises 200+ twin engines medium aircrafts for his farewell speech.

http://www.sldinfo.com/an-update-on-the-indian-fighter-competition-outgoing-indian-air-chief-highlights-the-way-ahead/