Posted on 08/13/2015 11:23:54 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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How do you have 5th gen stealth with external stores???
The point was that it can go from 5th without the pylons, take out the anti-air infrastructure, then load it up with a 4rth gen payload for bomb truck missions.
external weapons= not stealth
So will it protect the grunts better than anything else?
It’ll still lose in a turn fight.
No. It can’t fly slow enough to be a top-notch close air support platform.
It’s a one hundred percent purebred congressional brother in law contract stinker.
It is cheaper to network radars and write programs that assemble and analyze the tiny blips and determine that, yes, its no bigger than a sparrow, but it’s moving at Mach 1. Then, they’ll launch a cloud of visual tracking drones to shoot it down.
To me the article says the Marines need a different plane.
The future of aircraft in battle is to be pilotless, cheap and disposable. Watch the Israelis in the Iran war and see how its done.
Yea, I don’t see stealth being that big of an advantage for much longer. Radar and computers are more sophisticated than ever. And anything that moves through a fluid is gonna leave a wake.
SR71 wasn’t stealth, just awesome.
The F35 certainly isn’t the F22. It’s 5th-gen, but not in the same league. The F22 is incredible - not that the F35 isn’t.
From someone who worked on the AIM-120.
Recently saw one of these on approach to the USMC Air Station in Beaufort SC. LOUD!
I opened the sunroof as it passed over and killed our ears, looked in back and the kids were grinning a mile wide..
Carrying internal has been a problem. F-35 is a huge disappointment at a massive cost.
“...anything that moves through a fluid is gonna leave a wake.”
my knowledge of aircraft doesn’t go beyond the curiosity to look up when one flies over. That said, your comment about “wake” speaks volumes. Simply consider a thermostat kicking in when someone “pushes” air walking through a house on a cold morning. Heck, even the bulk of our 15 lb. dog trips a motion detector connected night light.
Perhaps worth more than a tolerant smile are acoustic sensors. In some pre-radar day and perhaps as late as Vietnam, human ears or directional acoustic horns were used for aircraft detection. Technology will now allow sounds to be sorted by various criteria such as level & frequency range.
Unlike submarines, aircraft haven’t a hope of “silent running”.
“No. It can’t fly slow enough to be a top-notch close air support platform.”
Er...the F-35B can fly slow and even hover...
The other thing is that with precision munitions the troops can call in strikes accurately from high altitude aircraft.
“Yea, I don’t see stealth being that big of an advantage for much longer.”
How does stealth help you when you are just whacking ISIS bastards with no aircover? For that you want cheap, slow flying, bullet proof bomb and bullet trucks.
We’ve put all our eggs in one very expensive basket.
And they're barely just getting started playing with their new toy.
Wait until they've messed around with it for a while out playing in the mud and dirt and figure out what all it can do!
True, it's not a pretty F-16, but so what? We've already got a bunch of them.
From here, it looks like an interesting mix of motorhead and geek hot rodding standards.
It takes the biggest motor and the biggest computer and shoves them both into one fairly stealthy/sexy package that blows stuff up.
What's not to like?
Yea, stealth doesn’t help with that. Just let the Hog Driver loose on ISIS. They’ll rain the pain down on them.
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