F-35 Lightning II

Lt Col Christine Mau who has over 2000hrs in F15E and was first female F35A Pilot.

At 1.04.33 when quizzed about CAS role and comparison to A10:
...as far as endurance goes...we’ve got a lot of gas, in fact the legs on the F35 are longer than the legs on an F15E, based on my experience. Internally we carry 18,000lbs of gas on the A model, and we’ve got one engine, it’s pretty impressive.
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At 57.40 when asked about M1.6 top speed of F35 compared to faster fighters:
...[in my whole flying career] let me just tell you this, I’ve never flown faster than M1.5, and the Strike Eagle can go faster than M2, so I just don’t know if there is a whole...I know there’s tactical implications for that, but it’s not something we’re typically relying on, on a daily basis.
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Pogolle on taas vaihteeksi vuodettu asiakirjaa:

https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2018/08/f-35-program-cutting-corners-to-complete-development

"Officials in the F-35 Joint Program Office are making paper reclassifications of potentially life-threatening design flaws to make them appear less serious"

"It is unclear how program officials intend to address the mountain of deficiencies while also developing new, untested capabilities"

3F:n kehitystyö jää SDD:ssä kesken ja samaa työtä jatketaan muilla työnimikkeillä, kuten DOT&E raportit kuvastivat lähestyvää tilannetta viime vuosina.
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Brittien F-35 koneet eivät ole lentäneet kuukauteen:

http://aviationweek.com/defense/questions-surround-uk-f-35-month-long-flying-break
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Ja kypärän käyttö pimeällä jatkuu ongelmallisena:

"The Navy is working on a solution that relies on "organic LED," or OLED, technology that should be ready for fielding by "sometime early next year," Locke said. "

"F-35C pilots first reported the problem with the $400,000 helmet in 2012. Since then, the Navy has attempted to fix the problem with software upgrades, but to no avail."

https://www.military.com/defensetec...ert-pilots-can-do-night-carrier-landings.html
 
Viimeksi muokattu:
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Pogolle on taas vaihteeksi vuodettu asiakirjaa:

https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2018/08/f-35-program-cutting-corners-to-complete-development

"Officials in the F-35 Joint Program Office are making paper reclassifications of potentially life-threatening design flaws to make them appear less serious"

"It is unclear how program officials intend to address the mountain of deficiencies while also developing new, untested capabilities"

3F:n kehitystyö jää SDD:ssä kesken ja samaa työtä jatketaan muilla työnimikkeillä, kuten DOT&E raportit kuvastivat lähestyvää tilannetta viime vuosina.
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Brittien F-35 koneet eivät ole lentäneet kuukauteen:

http://aviationweek.com/defense/questions-surround-uk-f-35-month-long-flying-break
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Ja kypärän käyttö pimeällä jatkuu ongelmallisena:

"The Navy is working on a solution that relies on "organic LED," or OLED, technology that should be ready for fielding by "sometime early next year," Locke said. "

"F-35C pilots first reported the problem with the $400,000 helmet in 2012. Since then, the Navy has attempted to fix the problem with software upgrades, but to no avail."

https://www.military.com/defensetec...ert-pilots-can-do-night-carrier-landings.html
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Onpas sitä osattukin kehittää huono kone, jossa ei selvästikään ole mitään hyvää... Ihmeellistä, että se on tästä kaikesta huonoudesta huolimatta parhaiten myyvä länsimainen hävittäjä!
 
Hanski kirjoitti:
Onpas sitä osattukin kehittää huono kone, jossa ei selvästikään ole mitään hyvää... Ihmeellistä, että se on tästä kaikesta huonoudesta huolimatta parhaiten myyvä länsimainen hävittäjä!
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Minun mielestä on hyvä että tämä "Pogo" on olemassa. Projektin ulkopuolelta tuleva teknisiin asioihin liittyvä kritiikki on pelkästään hyvä asia, osittain juuri siitä syystä F-35 on sitä mitä tuossa yllä on mainittu.
 
Turkkilaisten F-35 koulutus ei selvästikään ole keskeytetty kun eka lensi.
https://www.dailysabah.com/politics...-carries-out-first-flight-in-us-with-f-35-jet

Aussien infran rakentamisesta:
Construction of new Joint Strike Fighter maintenance facility in Queensland
30 Aug 2018 Oz CASG

"TAE Aerospace will develop a Turbine Engine Maintenance Facility (TEMF) in Bundamba, south-east Queensland, which will support in-country sustainment of Australia’s fifth-generation F-35A Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft. The TEMF will enable deeper-level maintenance, where JSF F135 engine modules are disassembled, repaired and reassembled for testing.

The Minister for Defence, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP, said the new facility was a testament to the strength of Australia’s defence industry and the contribution it made to the global F-35 Program. “TAE Aerospace’s new facility will support maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade (MRO&U) activities for not only Australian F135 engines but also engines from around the Asia-Pacific region and the world,” Minister Pyne said.

“TAE Aerospace is 100 per cent Australian-owned with 237 employees at several sites across Australia, with contracts to support Classic Hornet, Super Hornet, Growler and M1 Abram tank engines. The addition of the F135 engine MRO&U activities will add a minimum of 15 aerospace technician jobs to its workforce and up to 85 additional jobs as part of the future F-35 Global Support Solution.”

The Australian Government has approved the acquisition of 72 F-35A JSF aircraft to replace the current fleet of 71 ageing F/A-18A/B Classic Hornets. “The global F-35 Program has had a positive impact on Australia’s growing defence industry, which has collectively been awarded in excess of $1 billion in production contracts and will support up to 5000 Australian jobs by 2023,” Minister Pyne said.
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http://www.defence.gov.au/casg/News...ke_Fighter_maintenance_facility_in_Queensland
 
“USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) and USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) carried out dual-carrier sustainment and qualification operations Aug. 29 in the western Atlantic Ocean. During this period, their embarked air wings and escorts carried out war-at-sea exercise (WASEX) while in close proximity with each other.”
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F-35 AESA: The Most Advanced Jet’s Biggest Antenna
By Nick Zazulia | September 4, 2018

Active electronically scanned arrays (AESA) date back more than 20 years, but the F-35’s Northrop Grumman-built AN-APG-81 AESA is unlike any of its predecessors...

Dixon said the feedback that Northrop gets from pilots about the fused information package they ultimately receive is positive, and the military is pleased with the ripple effect of increased situational awareness for the entire fleet. He said, however, that there’s more work to do on that front, determining who gets what information through multifunction advanced datalink and Link 16.

“It’s basically the internet of the sky for all U.S. and coalition partners,” Dixon said. “You would have had to do that with your voice in the past … It’s a mix of who gets what, but I have the opportunity to choose the richness of the data that gets exchanged. I think that’s probably the game-changer at that point.”

Dixon said that the Northrop team “is spiraling capability every week” in a way that “commercial folk would find compelling.” He said that software and apps are being updated on a weekly basis, and that the platform is agile in a way belied by stories of decade-long processes for follow-on modernization to complete a goal.

He said the testing and verification process and a desire by operators to have a stable baseline for a couple of years to unify training prevents the major updates from happening as fast as they could from a developmental standpoint.

“Even though behind the scenes you’re brewing up additional capabilities for the next drop,” Dixon said, “about every two years seems to be what the warfighter is requesting. It’s perceived stability and operational performance.”

The biggest challenge in the past for Northrop and a major focus going forward, as with the JSF in general, is on affordability.

“Joint Program Office is under a lot of pressure to work affordability initiatives in, and we get it. That’s all recompete-driven, so the enterprise gets it, too,” Dixon said. “Nobody’s above reproach. We treat it that way. We’re always looking for affordability features; We’ve come down 30-40% since we started making the radar.

"…We’ve spent as much time finding ways to produce our system more affordably as we do in finding technical upgrades, which is important for the enterprise. We’ve all adjusted, I think, and there are other competitors out there who sure would like to be a part of a 3,000-aircraft buy, no matter when you cut in.”
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https://www.aviationtoday.com/2018/09/04/f-35-biggest-radar/
 
Palstan sotaratsuille tekemistä.

Grandfather spends £30k building world's first F-35 flight simulator in his garden shed
21 Aug 2018 EXPRESS

"A GRANDFATHER has spent more than £30,000 building a home-made F-35B lightning fighter jet simulator - in his garden SHED. Kenneth Mockford, 54, shut himself away "from dawn until dusk" to construct the replica aircraft from hundreds of tiny pieces....

...Mr Mockford charges £59.99 for an hour-long flight in the simulator, which includes a briefing."
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https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1006445/Grandfather-building-flight-simulator-garden-shed
 
Tämä F-35 tarjoaa kyllä jokaiselle jotakin.

Valmistaja ja ostaja kehuvat maasta taivaaseen. On stealthia, tilannekuvaa, uusia päivityksiä vaikka joka päivälle, tehoa ja kantomatkaa sekä laseria ja uutta myllyä tulossa. Ostajan tilinpitäjä ja muut virkamiehet puolestaan itkevät että varaosia ei saada, käytettävyys heikkoa, kehitys viivästyy, ALIS sekoilee ja valmistaja piilottelee virheitä. Ottamatta mitään kantaa kuka tuossa on eniten oikeassa niin tunnen jo valmiiksi myötätuntoa niitä härmäläisiä kohtaan jotka tuosta saagasta joutuvat kaivamaan "objektiivisen" totuuden esiin F-X projektia varten. Jos mikään on varmaa on se, että päätyvät mihin tahansa lopputulokseen niin huuto tulee olemaan kaamea.
 
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Kerrassaan hienoa työtä; kaveri on valjastanut Asperger -piirteensä avuksi omaan harrastukseensa. Urakka on huikea ja osaamista tarvitaan. 30k£ ei ole mikään ihme noin yksityiskohtaisessa projektissa. (y)
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He said: "I have Asperger Syndrome and I always say that it is my gift. It is my superpower.

"Because I have that,I have the skill of being able to analyse things to the nth degree and I can see things in a way that other people cannot.

"Therefore I can see minute detail in a basic photograph and can see the detail before the general stuff.

"People with Autism and Aspergers often get ridiculed by the general population because they are not the same as everyone else.

"But the general person looks at the world through normal eyes and we look at the world in 3D.
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Marine F-35Bs with the 13th MEU enter Middle East for first time

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https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/ne...command-theatre-of-operations-for-first-time/

F-35Bs embarked with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, have recently just entered the U.S. Central Command area of operations for the first time.
According to a photo uploaded by the Marine Corps showing the F-35B, the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship Essex entered the 5th fleet area of operations. The U.S. 5th Fleet is responsible for the Red Sea, Persian Gulf and parts of the Indian Ocean, and is a component command of CENTCOM.
The 13th MEU’s entrance into the CENTCOM arena heralds the first time the F-35B has entered the volatile Middle East arena and puts the high-tech aircraft closer to the fight against possible ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria, or as a counter to sophisticated Russian and Syrian air defense systems in Syria.
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Pikkusen poissaolevana ihmetellyt tätä F-35 kiimaa, jota valitettavasti myös kotimaissa lietsotaan, toki onneksi ei määräänsä enempää. Jos ja toivottavasti JOS EI, syystä tai toisesta F-35:ia tulisi FAF:n käyttöön, niin mitenkäs niitä käytettäisiin: Kyky lähitaisteluun olematon; Ruskien Sukhoit et al pesis oletettavasti alata yksikön.
Mietiskelin tässä olisiko tässä sitten seuraava menettely/taistelusuunnitelma:

- Laivueet ilmaan, suunta LÄNTEEN ja jossain Tukholman yläpuolella kurvi takas, maalitus ja patit menemään?
- Ammustäytön loputtua (loppuu vissiin 10 sec ?) hätälasku Turkuun jos kiitotie sattuis olemaan vapaana?
- En siis edelleenkää kannata tätä vaihtoehtoa, jolla selviytymiskyky on kyseenalainen vs. ruski tavaritski боевой боец?

Btw: Hiukkasen on saitti muuten mennyt eteenpäin :). Palaillaan silloin tällöin...
 
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