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Is The F-35 Superior to Russian and Chinese 5th Gen Aircraft?
Scout.com ^ | 29 June 2016 | Kris Osborn

Posted on 07/01/2016 7:31:30 AM PDT by Purdue77

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1 posted on 07/01/2016 7:31:30 AM PDT by Purdue77
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2 posted on 07/01/2016 7:33:35 AM PDT by Purdue77
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To: Jeff Head

Ping


3 posted on 07/01/2016 7:34:15 AM PDT by StoneWall Brigade ( America's Party! Tom Hoefling/Steve Schulin 2016)
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The F-35 is not even better than the F/A 18 it was originally supposed to replace (let us not mention the F-35 which, with modern avionics, is still superior).

The F-35 was a great idea that failed due to mission creep.

The proper “better” comparison is with the F-22, which should absolutely be brought back.


4 posted on 07/01/2016 7:35:19 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Don't mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness)
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Does it come configured for left handers?


5 posted on 07/01/2016 7:43:05 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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I don’t think so. But, I’m sure the contractor would love to get an engineering change order to do so.


6 posted on 07/01/2016 7:46:21 AM PDT by Purdue77
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is there side by side by side picture comparisons?

BTW does anyone else think the picture above looks photoshoped?


7 posted on 07/01/2016 7:46:36 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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For all the money spent on the software so far I gotta say the display looks really ancient and not very cutting edge. It sure does its best to hide its worth.

Of course who knows and maybe thats just the screen they pop up when they let reporters take pics of the cockpit.


8 posted on 07/01/2016 7:47:20 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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It’s a $100,000,000 platform. How does it perform against 10 $10,000,000 platforms?


9 posted on 07/01/2016 7:47:51 AM PDT by DBrow
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Give it to Israel they’ll fix in no time


10 posted on 07/01/2016 7:53:23 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Efforts must be made to produce the best fighter platforms possible at a fixed point in time. Just like in computer technology, if you stop to actually produce and manufacture a product for sale, you fall behind in innovation. But if you fail to produce anything you have no product to sell, and no income to fund further innovation. In computer-land, this is inconvenient, but in warfare-land, if you don’t compromise and get a platform in the sky, your best ideas may belong to your conqueror. ...


11 posted on 07/01/2016 7:53:55 AM PDT by Coffee... Black... No Sugar (I'm gonna' BICKER!)
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I assume that it will fire it’s BVR missiles and then run. I don’t know if it will hold its own against any adversary. I posted the article because I thought it interesting. However, one pilot review does not make for a good assessment of the true capabilities.


12 posted on 07/01/2016 7:54:09 AM PDT by Purdue77
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What’s the little robot image on the right side of the display?


13 posted on 07/01/2016 7:55:29 AM PDT by batterycommander (Surrounded? Relax and call for artillery.)
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To: Coffee... Black... No Sugar

Like every other aircraft that we have fielded, this design will evolve over time (and money). My concern is that when fielding an aircraft to do everything, you fail to get an aircraft to do anything well.


14 posted on 07/01/2016 7:57:09 AM PDT by Purdue77
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So are we to believe you, or the pilots??


15 posted on 07/01/2016 7:58:02 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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There is only one way to know these tings. They have to fight.

There are plenty of examples of “inferior” aircraft that would win in actual combat against the “superior” foes. Tactics are more important. Wildcat vs Zero is an example.


16 posted on 07/01/2016 8:06:15 AM PDT by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost, like tears in rain.)
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Bet you dollars to doughnuts he was standing in the presence of a superior occifer when he (felt compelled) to make that statement.


17 posted on 07/01/2016 8:08:49 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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I talked to a former USMC>>AF pilot who flew every fighter plane in the US fighter inventory from the A-4 up to but not including the F-22.

He did fly ACM against the F-22, and he said: “The F-22 was a club, and everything we flew against it was a baby seal.”

THAT left an impression on me!


18 posted on 07/01/2016 8:09:22 AM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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The IDF has already accepted their first one.

Lockheed Martin and Israel Celebrate Rollout of Israel's First F-35 'Adir'

19 posted on 07/01/2016 8:10:34 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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There is only one way to know these tings. They have to fight.

There are plenty of examples of “inferior” aircraft that would win in actual combat against the “superior” foes. Tactics are more important. Wildcat vs Zero is an example. Years a go when F-4s were still in reserve they would regularly defeat young F-16 guys. Tactics tactics tactics and training training training and experience experience experience.


20 posted on 07/01/2016 8:10:39 AM PDT by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost, like tears in rain.)
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