F-35 Lightning II

Rantojen mies kirjoitti:
Se on hyvä, että USMC:ssä on porukkaa jotka haluavat kertoa ei-julkiseksi tarkoitettua tietoa tänne Härmään ihmeteltäväksi. HX-hanke saanee tietonsa samalla tavalla.
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Kyllähän tältä foorumilta pystyt lukemaan esim arrow 16 harjoituksesta enemmän kuin mitä tiedotusvälineissä on ollut, mukana olleiden ammattisotilaiden kommentteja myöden... Meinaatko että jenkkien harjoitukset on jotain Above top secret-touhuja, joita mukana olleet ei uskalla kommentoida missään eikä kenellekään? :rolleyes::facepalm:
 
No F-22 -tuotannon uudelleenkäynnistys nyt oli aina ns. pipe dream. Puolustusministeriö toki yrittää mielellään taistella mahdollisimman suuren konemäärän puolesta, kongressissa voi kuitenkin olla vaikeampi saada noita tuotantomääriä läpi.
 
Idaho deployment to push F-35 limits

http://www.acc.af.mil/News/ArticleD...527/idaho-deployment-to-push-f-35-limits.aspx

Eight F-35A aircraft and 160 personnel from Hill Air Force Base will depart this week for rigorous operational testing at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, through June 17. This marks the first time Hill's operational F-35s will travel out of state for training.

The F-35A pilots and maintainers from Hill's active duty 388th Fighter Wing and Reserve 419th Fighter Wing will push the aircraft to their limits to simulate deployed operations and ensure the Air Force's newest fighter aircraft are performing as expected.

"Mountain Home is an ideal location for our first off-base exercise because it allows us to fully test the deployment capability of the unit and the aircraft while remaining close enough to Hill for home station support if needed," said Lt. Col. Curtis Pitts, commander of the 419th Operations Group, detachment 1.

"We're going to do our best to stress our entire system while at Mountain Home," said Maj. Luke Harris, deployment project officer and F-35A pilot with the 34th Fighter Squadron. "Our biggest focus areas are the number of sorties we can generate, the number of sorties that may be lost, loading and employing our weapons, and finding any unique issues with the F-35A."

The Air Force's first operational F-35 arrived to the 388th FW's 34th FS in September 2015. The 419th OG, detachment 1 is a contingent of Reserve F-35 pilots who fly in partnership with the 34th FS.

During roughly eight sorties a day, three key F-35A mission sets will be tested: suppression and destruction of enemy air defense, air interdiction missions, and basic close air support to include alert launches. Each is required to reach Initial Operational Capability, Harris said.
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Hollanissa on ollut huolenaiheita F-35:n meluisuudesta. Tehdyissä ensimmäisissä kokeissa on kaiketi todettu ettei ole aihetta sen suurempaan huoleen. Tässä startataan vähemmällä melulla. Hyvin näyttää nousevan ilman jälkipoltintakin.
 
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stealth-fighter-payment-1.3619469

"The Trudeau government has missed the deadline for a multimillion-dollar payment that keeps Canada in the club of nations involved in the F-35 stealth fighter program, CBC News has learned. "
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Samasta lähteestä:

But Jordan Owens cautioned not to read too much into the oversight and that Canada is still on the hook for the cash.

"We will honour our financial commitments," she said, responding for the minister who was in transit from a defence conference in Singapore.

The missed payment does not signal Canada's withdrawal from the agreement, Owens said.
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But it does shine a further spotlight on the contradictions in the Liberal policy and comes one day after published reports stated that cabinet was mulling over the sole-source purchase of an unknown number of Super Hornets, the Boeing-built rival to the F-35.

"I was shocked," said Alan Williams, a former procurement manager at the Department of National Defence, and one of the most strident critics of the Harper government's plan to acquire the F-35 without a competition. "I don't think anyone would have expected that kind of behaviour."

Williams was one of the defence insiders most impressed with the Liberal promise of open competition and transparency in last fall's election.

He said that if the government does a sole-source deal with Boeing, it makes the Liberals no better than the government they replaced.

"There is no legal justification to sole-source this," said Williams, who noted that the use of the national security criteria would not apply.

The move would possibly open the door to a legal — or even trade — challenge by competitors, he said.

"I'm not sure companies want to take the government to court on this kind of thing, but, you know, there is no legal justification for doing this," he said.

Owens denied cabinet has discussed a sole-source deal.
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http://breakingdefense.com/2015/10/billions-in-f-35-mods-debated-canada-election-fallout/

"This modernization package, with the so-called Block 4 software upgrade at its core, is essential to the aircraft reaching its “full warfighting capability,” Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, the Air Force’s F-35 integration director, told Congress yesterday"

“We will improve electronic attack [e.g. jamming]. We will improve electronic warfare [in general]. We will improve the radar,” said Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan

But there’s a problem, Bogdan freely admitted. With wish-lists coming from three US armed services and eight foreign partners — seven if Canada drops out (more on that below) — the upgrade package has swollen beyond what’s feasible or affordable

Virallinen totuus tuntuu vaihtuneen ja 3F ei enää olekaan "full warfighting capability". (itse juttu toki jo viime lokakuulta)
 
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Tetra kirjoitti:
"Typhoon would provide unequalled air defence capability and formidable air-to-ground capabilities"

Typhoonhan kuulostaa ihanteelliselta Suomelle?
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Jokaisessa vaihtoehdossa on omat hyvät ja huonot puolensa. Keskittymällä pelkästään minkä tahansa koneen parhaisiin puoliin, kuulostaa jokainen kone parhaalta mahdolliselta valinnalta. Kyse on aika monimutkaisesta kuviosta, jossa koneiden paremmuutta arvotetaan monin eri tavoin suhteessa kokonaiskustannuksiin ja ilmapuolustusjärjestelmän kokonaisuuteen.

Typhoonin voidaan arvioida olevan paras tai huonoin vaihtoehto Suomelle tai jotain siltä väliltä ;)
 
Tetra kirjoitti:
"Typhoon would provide unequalled air defence capability and formidable air-to-ground capabilities"

Typhoonhan kuulostaa ihanteelliselta Suomelle?
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Ja jatkui näin:
Moreover, though it is likely to be expensive to buy, expensive to operate, and lacking in particular capabilities, the F-35A pilot will enjoy unequalled survivability (thanks to the aircraft’s low observable characteristics) and unmatched situational awareness and net-enabled capabilities. In many circumstances, one can imagine that this will make the F-35A a better air-to-air aircraft than ‘type X’ which might have superior kinematics, a longer range AESA radar, a superior defensive aids sub systems and longer-range air-to-air missiles – all of which ought to make ‘brand x’ a superior air-defence aeroplane.
Mitä veikkaat mikä tuo "brand x" tuossa kontekstissa on? :)
 
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