Posted on 12/30/2015 8:05:57 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
I have a funny feeling that neither one of us would be up for Secretary Of Defense no matter who wins the Election. LOL
I think you are right about scrapping the F-35 and starting over, but I hate to see all that development money already spent wasted, thus my thought about keeping the Marine VTOL version.
A one size fits all Aircraft design NEVER works, and the F-35 Program just proves the point. A single Engine Navy Carrier Plane is a bad idea, period. This isn’t WWII.
Decisively.
The F-22 transmission is not seen by the enemy as it's directional...and the F-15c Hate Pod is 50-100 miles behind the F-22, along with multiple other combined assets.
Did I help make it clear?
Can’t really do that with the F-14s, since just about all of them were cut up for scrap following the type leaving service in 2006. Ostencibly to prevent their parts from making into the hand of the Iranians. There were even a few that were repo’d from museums for scrapping.
There’s video of them being torn up on YouTube. Seeing that happen, particularly to the “D” models, is painful to watch.
I’m guessing that out of a production run of almost 800 aircraft there are somewhere around 50 left in various US museums.
Will they restart the F-14 parts line, to sell to the Mullahs, now that we have surrendered to Iran?
Yeah, I look at that pod and recall how F-4 units that got the PAVE Tack pod called it “PAVE Drag”.
From the diagram it looks like it just turns an F-15 into a sensor and data relay node. So it’s not designed for all the F-15s in a fight, just a couple that hang back and act as nodes for the rest. But it allows the pod to be carried by an aircraft that can keep up with the ones doing the fighting. Sort of like how the Air Force converted some F-111s to EF-111s for jamming purposes.
That is a shame.
WTH do we have that Base in AZ with the Aircraft Boneyard for anyway? The F-14 was one of a kind.
This is great stuff.
I do have to agree with the “What is the F35 for anyway?” crowd.
With this makeup, it does make more sense to have one F22 per squadron of F-15D. Then put the A-10 assembly lines into full bore production for the mass amount of firepower we’d need in a more gritty ground war.
If we had enough F-22s that we could be secure in their numbers, with missile-laden F-15s behind them ready with tons of A-A firepower I don’t really know that we’d even need all that many F-18s and F-16s anymore either. Which would free up even more money for the extra F-22s and A-10s.
I like this synergy. It makes tons of sense.
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