F-35 Lightning II

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/israel-further-assesses-f-35b-buy-427486/

Israel further assesses F-35B buy

Israel's potential acquisition of the short take-off and vertical landing B-model of Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter, to complement its ordered fleet of F-35As, has gained further momentum following a recent strategic assessment.

A recent strategic assessment by the Israeli air force says that the number of short- and long-range rockets in use by militants in Lebanon and Gaza could affect the service's ability to use its bases during a conflict.

Although the air force has formed special units equipped to perform quick fixes to damaged runways, the problem remains significant. “The operational need for the F-35B is clear,” an Israeli source told FlightGlobal.

The first two IAF F-35As are scheduled to land in Israel on 12 December and another six will be delivered in 2017.

The force has a further 25 on order, to be delivered over several years.
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Patu kirjoitti:
Täsmälleen samaa mieltä. En tosin odottanutkaan F-35:lta kummoista ohjelmaa, nuo rajoitukset tuntien. Kone muuten näytti livenä maassa vielä pulleammalta kuin kuvissa. Olin yllättynyt.
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Tuo on kyllä totta. Kone on tosi pullukan näköinen livenä. Kummankin (F-35 ja F-22) kuomut hohtivat kullankeltaisina, olikos niissä joku ohut kultapinnoite estämässä tutkasäteilyn pääsyä ohjaamoon? Hyvin oli kyllä parkkeerattu nuokin koneet, vaikkeivat olleet virallisesti static-displayssa niin niihin pääsi melko lähelle. Myös Ramex Delta ja Rafalet olivat lähellä vihreän alueen rajaa.

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Harmi, että näin vain lauantain esityksen. :( Ilmeisesti pilvien vuoksi kaikki pystyliikkeet puuttuivat siitä. Muuten olen samaa mieltä RIATista. Alue on niin suuri, ettei ruuhkia synny yksittäisiin pisteisiin. Kävijöitä oli kuitenkin 150k. Jonoja on vähemmän kuin Suomen lentonäytöksissä. 2018 olisi RAF:n 100v juhlat, josko silloin lähtisi uudestaan reissuun, useammaksi päiväksi.
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Perjantain esitys löytyy onneksi youtubestakin, tosin livenä näkyy liikehdintä paremmin kuin videolla.
Kohdasta 5:40 alkaen lennellään taaksepäin. Sunnuntaina pilvet väistyivät mutta F-22:lla oli jotain teknisiä ongelmia ja heritage flightissa lensi vain F-35 sekä Mustangi.

UK airshow foorumilla huhuiltiin että B-2 voisi olla ensi vuonna ja ensi vuonna oli USAF jotkut juhlat kans. Mutta sepä selviää sitten myöhemmin. Käveltyä tuli kyllä paljon kun alue on niin iso, ei sitä oikein kartoista älynnyt miten iso näytös on kyseessä. :) Me lähdettiin heti kerralla kolmeksi päiväksi niin keliriskitkin pienenevät ja kyllähän siellä riitti nähtävää joka päivälle. Lauantaina saatiin katsottua kaikki esitykset niin sunnuntaina katseltiin enemmän static displayta sitten.
 
juskaks kirjoitti:
Tuo on kyllä totta. Kone on tosi pullukan näköinen livenä. Kummankin (F-35 ja F-22) kuomut hohtivat kullankeltaisina, olikos niissä joku ohut kultapinnoite estämässä tutkasäteilyn pääsyä ohjaamoon?
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Jep, mutta materiaali on Indium Tin Oxide.
 
Israelin koneiden ulkonäkö tulee olemaan tällainen.

http://m.iaf.org.il/2392-46855-en/IAF.aspx

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F-35 Very ‘Raptorish,’ Adversary Pilot Says
http://www.seapowermagazine.org/stories/20160719-f35.html

An experienced fighter pilot who has flown in mock combat against the Marine Corps’ F-35B Lightning II strike fighter has described the F-35’s performance as similar to that of the Air Force’s F-22A Raptor air superiority fighter.

“I was just flying at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort [S.C.] about three weeks ago against the F-35s,” said Jeff Parker, a former Air Force fighter pilot and now chief executive officer of Airborne Tactical Advantage Co. (ATAC) — a unit of Textron Airborne Solutions — that provides commercially operated adversaries, jet fighters that pose as enemy aircraft to train Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force fighter pilots. “The F-35Bs “are very ‘Raptorish’ in their training and the aircraft is a very capable airplane in the air-to-air arena.”
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This Is The Most Important Technology On the F-35
Cognitive EW, today in its infancy, may one day help justify the Joint Strike Fighter’s enormous cost.
http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/01/most-important-technology-f-35/125228/

Always active, AN/ASQ-239 provides all-aspect, broadband protection, allowing the F-35 to reach well-defended targets and suppress enemy radars. The system stands alone in its ability to operate in signal-dense environments, providing the aircraft with radio-frequency and infrared countermeasures, and rapid response capabilities.
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http://www.baesystems.com/en/product/an-asq-239-f-35-ew-countermeasure-system
 
Viimeksi muokattu:
25mm Apex-ammustestistä video ja norjaksi tekstiä. Näyttävästi leimahtaa ensimmäisen teräslevyn läpäistyään.
http://www.tu.no/artikler/her-smeller-norges-nye-supervapen/225161

Nammon vuodesta 2006 asti kehittämä.
10 mrd kruunun vientimarkkinoita ennustavat 30 vuoden aikana.

Israel puolestaan harkitsee F-35:n isojen huoltojen ulkoistamista. Syynä kiire, koska koneita on kohta käsissä. Tehtäisiin kuitenkin edelleen kotimaan tukikohdissa.
http://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=24647&start=225
 
Viimeksi muokattu:
F-35B:n (ja C:n) tykkipodilla ammutaan 80 laukauksen sarja:

 
https://news.usni.org/2016/07/29/f-35b-tactics-evolving#more-20947

F-35B Tactics Evolving As Pilots’ Understanding Of Technology Matures

The Marine Corps’ top aviator said the F-35B Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter pilots have matured in their understanding of the new platform in the year since the service declared initial operational capability (IOC), pushing themselves to push past planned tactics and create a new way of using the fifth-generation technology.

Lt. Gen. Jon Davis said today at an American Enterprise Institute event that he “stacked the deck” early with Top Gun graduates and weapons tactics instructors who could quickly understand the new plane and how to best use it. Over the last year, those Marines’ efforts have led to “unprecedented” successes in live and simulated tests, shooting down all targets and suffering no JSF losses in many cases.

Last summer, as a last step before recommending an IOC declaration, Davis tasked the first F-35B squadron with completing an operational readiness inspection – a test event borrowed from the Brits, he said.

As part of the test, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 121 performed an armed reconnaissance mission that can sometimes take AV-8B Harrier and F-18 Hornet pilots all day to complete.

“These guys went out there and they found all the targets very quickly and killed all the targets,” he said, noting the early proficiency of the squadron.
“Most importantly, … we put a radar [surface-to-air missile] out in the objective area. In the old days we’d have to go take care of the radar SAM, get somebody in to go take care of that because you don’t do armed reconnaissance, which is patrolling for targets out there, unless you’ve got a permissive threat environment and you beat that threat. These guys went out with the SAM in the area and did that and they killed the SAM.”

Fast forward a year, he said, and the squadron has gone from proficient to innovative.

Davis brought Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller to meet the pilots and learn about the planes and tactics. During the visit, the squadron was assigned two drills.

The first was done with fewer planes than Davis thought was needed, but otherwise went according to plan. He said the pilots were given a scenario that was “very high-end, off the ship, go into the jaws of death, double-digit SAMs, fighter threat, and go after a very strategic target on the ground. I watched them do it as a foursome, which normally I would say it would be 13 or 14 airplanes normally, what I would do as [commanding officer] of the weapons school, which I was. … They killed the fighters, they killed the SAMs, they killed the target, they came home.

“What was most interesting to be was not what they did but how they did it. It was very much the maturation of the pilots and how they’re flying this airplane, how they’re using information, communicating with each other, sharing information,” he continued.
“It was more like watching a pack of dogs go after something. And it was force-on-force, it wasn’t scripted,” so their success – particularly with so few aircraft – was far from guaranteed.

The second drill, though, did not go as planned – in the best possible way, Davis said. The planes were to fly a close-air support mission through clouds at 1,000 feet, with the planes in the 3F configuration that allows for pylons to externally carry 18,000 pounds of bombs.

“I’m out there, the commandant of the Marine Corps is out there, I want to impress the commandant,” Davis said.
“This first scenario was awesome, and then right before the second scenario I said, are we ready to go? And this young major comes up … he goes, ‘we’re not going to do exactly what you want us to do.’ I’m like [eyes grow wide]. “Because we didn’t think the tasking was challenging enough. So we’ve got two that are slick and two that are loaded up as bomb trucks. We can do the job sir, don’t worry.’”

So two planes forfeited their external carry capacity in exchange for stealth, and “it was a work of art,” Davis said. The planes hit all their targets in five and a half minutes, with the four planes passing images through the clouds and successfully taking out the missile threat early on.

“I just watched, I’m like, that’s not how my brain works, but that is the way their brains are working,” he said.
“Gen.(Charles) Krulak, who I used to work for, said ‘you don’t man the equipment, you equip the man,’ so we’re equipping these young Marines, this generation that doesn’t know any bounds for latitude for technology, and they’re leveraging this technology and doing great things.”

After the event, Davis told USNI News that, in addition to the squadrons, the F-35B test squadron has been an agent for innovation with the new airplane.

“We have VMX-1, which is our test squadron. We put very creative folks in there and they’re asking why all the time,” he said.
“One, they’re actually getting the test plan we’ve got to do for the airplane to get the capabilities as quick as we can, but they’re also, they have tactical hunger and they want to do better and they see opportunities out there, can we do this, can we do this can we do this.”
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Air Force expects to declare F-35 IOC Aug. 2

The Air Force expects to declare initial operational capability for its variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter next Tuesday, Aug. 2, multiple sources confirmed to Inside Defense.

The service's target IOC window opens Aug. 1 and extends through December. After speculation that the milestone would fall later in the year due to delays in delivery of the Autonomic Logistics Information System, Air Force officials have become increasingly confident that the service would in fact declare IOC in August, with sources confirming July 27 that Aug. 2 is the current target.

The Air Force has a number of requirements it has been tracking for IOC -- at least 12 aircraft must have all the necessary retrofits and the newest Block 3i software, pilots and maintainers must be fully trained, the jets must be able to meet performance and capability standards and ALIS must be deployable.

Gen. Herbert Carlisle, head of Air Combat Command, will make the IOC determination and will brief top Air Force leadership prior to making a public announcement. Carlisle told reporters earlier this month that IOC is coming "sooner rather than later," and noted that the most recent release of ALIS is ready to deploy in an operational environment.

The first operational F-35A unit will be located at Hill Air Force Base, UT, and representatives from the base's 34th Fighter Squadron and the 388th Maintenance Group told reporters during a July 27 conference call that the unit has met all of its IOC requirements and submitted them to Carlisle for approval.

"We have achieved all our milestones," Lt. Col. Steven Anderson, 388th Maintenance Group deputy commander, said on the conference call. "It has been checked on the sheet and we have submitted all the data to ACC for Gen. Carlisle's consideration on making that declaration."

Lt. Col. George Watkins, 34th Fighter Squadron commander, said that as of July 27, the squadron has 24 F-35 pilots trained, and 21 of them are combat mission ready. The squadron has also completed final pilot verification in the last several weeks.

To date, Hill AFB has 15 F-35s on the ramp and is expecting a 16th aircraft to arrive in late August. It has flown 854 total training sorties and currently has a 91 percent mission effectiveness rate, according to Anderson.
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https://insidedefense.com/daily-news/air-force-expects-declare-f-35-ioc-aug-2
 
http://asiamaritime.net/us-navys-sixth-generation-fa-xx-fighter-just-a-super-super-hornet/

"Because of the sheer cost of the F-35C, if the Navy could find a way to leave the Joint Strike Fighter program, it would, the source said."

“They’re simply playing to get beyond this administration in hopes of getting a better bite at the apple in the next administration where they could T-up F/A-XX and perhaps truncate the F-35 buy in order to get something they really want,” the source said.
 
The F-35 is so Stealthy, it Produced Training Challenges, Pilot Says

http://www.airforcetimes.com/story/...uced-training-challenges-pilot-says/87760454/

The F-35 Lightning II is so stealthy, pilots are facing an unusual challenge. They're having difficulty participating in some types of training exercises, a squadron commander told reporters Wednesday.

During a recent exercise at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, F-35 squadrons wanted to practice evading surface-to-air threats. There was just one problem: No one on the ground could track the plane.

“If they never saw us, they couldn’t target us,” said Lt. Col. George Watkins, the commander of the 34th Fighter Squadron at Hill Air Force Base, Utah.
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Sugsilla kirjoitti:
oon kyllä menossa näön tarkastukseen, mutta harottaako noi vähän kaikki omaan suuntaansa?
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Kyllä :)

Todennäköisesti syynä on se, että kun kone lentää, niin runko on ylöspäin ja tällöin siiven kärki vaakasuorassa. Tällä on ehkä haettu kahta asiaa: 1) ei lähde kärkisakkaamaan 2) ilmavirta ei pyri niin paljon kiertämään siiven kärjestä ympäri -> vähemmän vastusta.
 
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oon kyllä menossa näön tarkastukseen, mutta harottaako noi vähän kaikki omaan suuntaansa?
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@Mustaruuti vastasikin ylös/alas-suuntien osalta. Sivusuunnassa taas harotus johtuu kameran laajakulmaobjektiivista, jollaista on pakko käyttää että hallissa mahtuu ottamaan molemmat siivenkärjet samaan kuvaan.
 
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