F-35 Lightning II

Germany asks U.S. for classified briefing on Lockheed's F-35 fighter

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-l...18D13X?feedType=RSS&virtualBrandChannel=11563

The German Air Force this month sent the U.S. military a written request for classified data on the Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) F-35 fighter jet as it gears up to replace its current fleet of fighter jets from 2025 to 2035.

The letter, sent by the Air Force's planning command and seen by Reuters, makes clear that the German government has not yet authorized a procurement program and is not committed to any particular aircraft to replace its current warplanes.

It said the defense ministry would carry out "an in-depth evaluation of market available solutions, including the F-35, later this year," with a formal "letter of request" to be issued in coming months.
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Hyviä uutisia. Hartaasti odotettu Block 3F kenties ehtii kuin ehtiikin tälle vuodelle:

The Air Force expects to operationalize the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s latest “3F” software iteration by September or October of this year, a development which will integrate additional technology and equip the stealth aircraft with a wider range of weapons, service leaders said.

After experiencing some challenges during developmental testing, the 3F software drop is now improved and sharpened up for delivery, Brig. Gen. Scott Pleus, Director, F-35 Integration Office, told reporters.

Lähde: https://defensesystems.com/articles/2017/05/17/f35.aspx?m=1




Vuonna 2011 rukattu tavoite 3F:lle oli elokuu 2017, näillä näkyminen tuosta eivät myöhästy kuin muutaman kuukauden:

Full Block 3F Capability Delivery
2011 Post Nunn-McCurdy APB Dates Current Estimate
Objective: August 2017 Threshold: February 2018


Tämän hetkinen tilanne:

F-35A: October 2017 (w/o AIM-9X) November 2017 (w/ AIM-9X)

F-35B: November 2017 (1.3 Mach) May 2018 (1.6 Mach)

F-35C: January 2018 (1.3 Mach) February 2018 (1.6 Mach)


Lähde: http://docs.house.gov/meetings/AS/AS25/20170216/105552/HHRG-115-AS25-Wstate-BogdanC-20170216.pdf
 
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Teräsmies kirjoitti:
No niin...siinä onkin sitten Eurofighterin sekä Tornaadon korvaaja valittu.
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Anti kattoa. Tornadon korvaaja siitä voi kuoriutua, aikaa ei liene paljoa.

Typhoon on toinen asia. Kaikkia tilattuja koneita ei ole edes vielä toimitettu Luftwaffelle. Eikä ulkomaisen konetyypin ostaminen oikein sovi yhteen kotimaisen teollisuuden tukemisen kanssa. En oikein usko, että saksalaiset olisivat siihen valmiita.
 
Hyvä juttu noista häiveominaisuuksista, ja siitä minkä takia se on tärkeä ominaisuus. Vaikka parhaimmilla tutkilla nähdäänkin niin "tappoketju" on kuitenkin poikki ja häivekonetta ei saada tiputettua koska kohdetta ei saada ohjukselle maalattua =)

F-35 Pilot: Why China & Russia Can't Stop Him

The systems Russia and China have spent millions developing provide only a tiny glimpse of the F-35 — systems that may be sunk costs in the grand scheme of things.

Ever since the US used F-117s in 1991 to rock Baghdad, at the time one of the world's most defended cities, Soviets and other potential US adversaries have been studying up on how to counter stealth jets.

Later, over Serbia, an F-117 was shot down, forever souring the image of so-called invisible aircraft that have for decades been on top of the US Air Force's agenda.

Today, Russia and China have built impressive arrays of very high frequency, or VHF, and other integrated radars that can spot even the US's most advanced and stealthy jets like the F-22 and the F-35 under the right circumstances.

While many have rushed to declare stealth a fruitless and expensive path for the US Air Force to walk, retired Marine Maj. Dan Flatley told Business Insider why pilots of America's most expensive weapons system weren't afraid of Russian or Chinese counterstealth.

"Adversaries have to build a kill chain," said Flatley, a former F-35 pilot. Just because a radar can find an object — and Russian VHF radars can spot F-35s — doesn't mean it can fix, track, target, and consummate that kill chain with a missile hit, he said.

"We're not trying to prevent every aspect of that chain, just snap one of those links," Flatley said.

So while an infrared search and tracking system could spot an F-35 and give enemy pilots an idea of where it is, it couldn't track it or target it with a missile. This means that the systems Russia and China have spent millions developing provide only a tiny glimpse of the F-35 — systems that may be sunk costs in the grand scheme of things.

"I don't need to stop everything all the time," Flatley said of the kill chain. "I just need to make you unable to finish what you've already invested tons of time and money and effort in trying to shoot me down."

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Lockheed Martin

"That's the thing people don't understand," Flatley said. "They think we're saying we're invisible to everyone all the time, at all bandwidths and energy levels. ... That's not what we're saying."

Flatley says F-35 pilots joke that only Wonder Woman has an invisible jet. The reality is that the F-35 is a huge piece of flying metal and alloy — a radar pointed at the right place at the right time will definitely spot it, but good luck shooting it down.

Meanwhile, as the enemy systems scour the skies for any trace of the F-35, the F-35 sees all of those radar emissions and can pinpoint the air defenses and enemy planes.

Where legacy planes had to choose between lethality and survivability on a mission, the F-35 can do four, 16, or even 32 things at a time, meaning that while air and ground threats look for the stealth jet, the F-35 can drop bombs to smash them, according to Flatley.

"We're extraordinarily confident in what we believe the performance of this jet is, and we have a lot of data and material to back that stuff up," Flatley said.

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An F-35Bs takes off from the USS America. Lockheed Martin

So while the Russians' propaganda may boast that they can see F-35s, it may be a response to a platform that has rendered parts of their battle plan irrelevant.

The F-35 was built to penetrate the most guarded airspaces in the world and get the job done. While the enemy hasn't been standing still, making great progress toward countering the F-35, Flatley says he's sure the US can carry out its mission on its terms.

"The expectation is that the F-35 will operate in a scenario against air and surface defense systems — and that's an expectation that the American taxpayer and public should have," Flatley said. He also acknowledged the effort the US has put behind the F-35 as a stealth penetrator and was resolute in that "we're not going to waste it."

@ http://www.scout.com/military/warrior/story/1778935-f-35-pilot-why-china-russia-can-t-stop-him
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Nyt tulee varmaan aika newbie kysymys, mutta stealth-koneethan suunnitellaan lähinnä olemaan stealth suoraan edestäpäin? Eli niillä voipi rynniä hyökkäykseen vastustajan tutkien huomaamatta. Mutta mitäs jos vihu pääsee sivulle tai taakse? Tuleeko esim suoraan ylös/alaspäin niin paljon heijastetta että näkyy tutkassa ja ohjus osuu? Tai jos stealth-kone kaartelee alueella, niin loistaako kuin majakka tutkassa?
 
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Nyt tulee varmaan aika newbie kysymys, mutta stealth-koneethan suunnitellaan lähinnä olemaan stealth suoraan edestäpäin? Eli niillä voipi rynniä hyökkäykseen vastustajan tutkien huomaamatta. Mutta mitäs jos vihu pääsee sivulle tai taakse? Tuleeko esim suoraan ylös/alaspäin niin paljon heijastetta että näkyy tutkassa ja ohjus osuu? Tai jos stealth-kone kaartelee alueella, niin loistaako kuin majakka tutkassa?
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Kyllä. Muotoilunsa takia stealth-koneet heijastavat joihinkin suuntiin enemmän kuin tavalliset koneet (toki, pinnoitteet puolestaan vähentävät heijastusta). Tämä on juuri esim. monipaikkatutkaverkoston pointti.
 
Gyllis1 kirjoitti:
Hyviä uutisia. Hartaasti odotettu Block 3F kenties ehtii kuin ehtiikin tälle vuodelle:
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Tarkoittaa käytännössä, että SDD-vaihe (Software Development and Documentation) on ohi syksyllä ja IOT&E (Initial Operational Test & Evaluation) jatkuu.
The Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) is conducted on production, or production representative articles, to determine whether systems are operationally effective and suitable for intended use by representative users to support the decision to proceed beyond Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP).
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http://www.acqnotes.com/acqnote/careerfields/initial-operational-test-and-evaluation-te

hadoop kirjoitti:
Nyt tulee varmaan aika newbie kysymys, mutta stealth-koneethan suunnitellaan lähinnä olemaan stealth suoraan edestäpäin? Eli niillä voipi rynniä hyökkäykseen vastustajan tutkien huomaamatta. Mutta mitäs jos vihu pääsee sivulle tai taakse? Tuleeko esim suoraan ylös/alaspäin niin paljon heijastetta että näkyy tutkassa ja ohjus osuu? Tai jos stealth-kone kaartelee alueella, niin loistaako kuin majakka tutkassa?
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Kuten mustis laittoi, monipaikkasensorit on tulevaisuuden vastaus. Stealth ei tarkoita etteikö näitä uusimpia koneita ole tehty mahdollisimman huomaamattomaksi myös muun säteilyn tms. osalta. Silti ne tulevat olemaan helpompi havaita monien erilaisten ja eri paikoissa olevien sensorien yhdistelmällä. Näiden toteutuksessa on toki omat ongelmansa. Esimerkiksi se, miten tutkaohjukseen asti viedään tieto kun ne itse toimivat X-alueella kuten suurin osa hävittäjätutkista tähän asti.
 
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Ensimmäinen euroopan komennus olisi voinut paljon huonomminkin mennä:

WASHINGTON: The F-35A demonstrated higher mission capable rates during its just-concluded European deployment than the fourth generation aircraft it is replacing.

“It’s very important to know that we are experiencing reliability rates rates that are unheard of in our legacy fleet with this jet. We’ve seen a very, very high rate of success with just about everything we’ve tried to do with this platform,” Chief Master Sgt. Benjamin Carpenter, the superintendent for the 34th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, told reporters yesterday.

The 13 F-35As maintained a 90 percent mission capable rate during the three-week exercise, respectable for any combat aircraft. Planes did have problems, including one that lost a generator, but every issue was dealt with inside of 24 hours, according to two Air Force officers talking to reporters today at the end of the exercises.

The early F-35s have much lower mission capable rates, in part because the Air Force is simply having problems finding parts for those jets.

“Our overall mission capable rate for this F-35 deployment (to the U.K., Estonia and Bulgaria) was 87.5 percent,” Col. David Lyons, the 388th Fighter Wing commander, told us. “And my current rate for my F-16s that are doing great work in Spain is 75 percent.”

Of 84 sorties planned, four were missed, two because of parts the needed replacing and two because of ground aborts. Sortie rates and mission capable rates are not the same thing, of course. It’s easy to miss a sortie if there’s a software glitch or a part needs replacing or fixing. The mission capable rate is a broader indicator of the fleet’s health.


Lähde http://breakingdefense.com/2017/05/...ow-jsf-boasts-high-readiness-rates-in-europe/
 
F-35A Could Cost $80 Million With Multi-Year Orders, Lockheed Says
http://aviationweek.com/avalon-airshow/f-35a-could-cost-80-million-multi-year-orders-lockheed-says

Poiminnat:
The price in 2019-20 should be $80 million, Bogdan said

Babione suggests that customers should negotiate a contract for three years of production, then one for five years. These prices include the aircraft’s Pratt & Whitney F135 engine and compare with the $60-65 million unit price of the F-16.

Lockheed Martin is looking for ways of reducing the cost of the program other than multi-year contracts. One is to build a simpler version of the elaborate engine trailer, one that would be used on land only and lack features needed for handling the F135 at sea.
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UK MoD green lights Meteor integration on F-35B
http://www.janes.com/article/69834/uk-mod-green-lights-meteor-integration-on-f-35b

The UK is seeking to have the capability available on the F-35 from 2024, the spokesperson said. Meteor is a candidate for internal carriage on the UK's F-35B as part of the Block 4 capability upgrade cycle.
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Eli käyttävät alustavaan integraatioon 41 miljoonaa puntaa. Tuosta pääsee maksamaan sitten osansa muu F-35B:n Meteorin käyttöä suunnitteleva.

QF-16s Put F-35s to the Test
http://www.airforcemag.com/DRArchive/Pages/2017/May 2017/May 22 2017/QF-16s-Put-F-35s-to-the-Test.aspx

"The Air Force's QF-16s are putting F-35s to the test at Edwards AFB, Calif., by jamming the fifth generation jet's radar in preparation for initial operation test and evaluation, which starts next year. Three QF-16s, which can be flown unmanned as full-scale aerial targets or manned for training purposes, from Tyndall AFB, Fla., and Holloman AFB, N.M., recently flew to Edwards to prepare for the F-35's testing. The aircraft were flown by pilots from the 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron, according to an Air Force release.

"We're preparing for initial operational test and evaluation that starts next year," Matt Feringa, the F-35 Joint Operational Test Team senior tactical systems analyst, said in the release. "Part of the QF-16's mission is to carry airborne radar jamming pods. We flew F-35s with them as part of our test design development and to preliminarily evaluate the F-35 against those jamming pods." The QF-16s arrived in late April and flew for two weeks."
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LtGen Bogdan: "...The USMC also conducted a live fire weapons exercise at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida last summer. The main highlight of that was one of the pilots simultaneously laser-guided a GBU-12 bomb at the same time he was engaging an air-to-air target with an AIM-120 radar missile. Both were direct hits. This is something that no fourth-generation fighter can accomplish...." http://docs.house.gov/meetings/AS/AS25/20170216/105552/HHRG-115-AS25-Wstate-BogdanC-20170216.pdf

6x sisäinen AMRAAM tulee aikaisintaan Block 4.3 tai 4.4. Jälkimmäisen aikataulu on 2025.

The No 6 Squadron CO [Billy Cooper, Typhoon-kuski] was impressed with the Lightning II: “The capabilities of the F-35 are well documented, but to see it in practice on these very realistic exercises is really very exciting, and it’s a fantastic future for the UK.” http://www.f-16.net/forum/download/file.php?id=24352

Eli se sama jamppa, joka oli suomalaisia toimittajia vastassa kun kävivät äskettäin Lossiemouthissa ihastelemassa Typhooneja.
 
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