Posted on 07/01/2016 7:31:30 AM PDT by Purdue77
An F-35 fighter pilot says he would be confident flying the Joint Strike Fighter against any enemy in the world, including Russian and Chinese 5th Generation stealth fighters.
An F-35 Joint Strike Fighter would be able to use its sensors, weapons and computer technology to destroy Russian and Chinese 5th-Generation Stealth fighters in a high-end combat fight, service officials said.
“There is nothing that I have seen from maneuvering an F-35 in a tactical environment that leads me to assume that there is any other airplane I would rather be in. I feel completely comfortable and confident in taking that airplane into any combat environment,” Lt. Col. Matt Hayden, 56th Fighter Wing, Chief of Safety, Luke AFB, Arizona, told Scout Warrior in a special pilot interview.
Furthermore, several F-35 pilots have been clear in their resolve that the multi-role fighter is able to outperform any other platform in existence.
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The F-35 is not even better than the F/A 18 it was originally supposed to replace (let us not mention the F-35 which, with modern avionics, is still superior).
The F-35 was a great idea that failed due to mission creep.
The proper “better” comparison is with the F-22, which should absolutely be brought back.
Does it come configured for left handers?
I don’t think so. But, I’m sure the contractor would love to get an engineering change order to do so.
is there side by side by side picture comparisons?
BTW does anyone else think the picture above looks photoshoped?
For all the money spent on the software so far I gotta say the display looks really ancient and not very cutting edge. It sure does its best to hide its worth.
Of course who knows and maybe thats just the screen they pop up when they let reporters take pics of the cockpit.
It’s a $100,000,000 platform. How does it perform against 10 $10,000,000 platforms?
Give it to Israel they’ll fix in no time
Efforts must be made to produce the best fighter platforms possible at a fixed point in time. Just like in computer technology, if you stop to actually produce and manufacture a product for sale, you fall behind in innovation. But if you fail to produce anything you have no product to sell, and no income to fund further innovation. In computer-land, this is inconvenient, but in warfare-land, if you don’t compromise and get a platform in the sky, your best ideas may belong to your conqueror. ...
I assume that it will fire it’s BVR missiles and then run. I don’t know if it will hold its own against any adversary. I posted the article because I thought it interesting. However, one pilot review does not make for a good assessment of the true capabilities.
What’s the little robot image on the right side of the display?
Like every other aircraft that we have fielded, this design will evolve over time (and money). My concern is that when fielding an aircraft to do everything, you fail to get an aircraft to do anything well.
So are we to believe you, or the pilots??
There is only one way to know these tings. They have to fight.
There are plenty of examples of “inferior” aircraft that would win in actual combat against the “superior” foes. Tactics are more important. Wildcat vs Zero is an example.
Bet you dollars to doughnuts he was standing in the presence of a superior occifer when he (felt compelled) to make that statement.
I talked to a former USMC>>AF pilot who flew every fighter plane in the US fighter inventory from the A-4 up to but not including the F-22.
He did fly ACM against the F-22, and he said: “The F-22 was a club, and everything we flew against it was a baby seal.”
THAT left an impression on me!
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There is only one way to know these tings. They have to fight.
There are plenty of examples of “inferior” aircraft that would win in actual combat against the “superior” foes. Tactics are more important. Wildcat vs Zero is an example. Years a go when F-4s were still in reserve they would regularly defeat young F-16 guys. Tactics tactics tactics and training training training and experience experience experience.
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