Posted on 07/15/2014 9:06:15 PM PDT by Rabin
The U.S. military has grounded all its new F-35 Joint Strike Fighters following an incident on June 23, when one of the high-tech warplanes caught fire on the runway of a Florida air base. The no-fly order — which affects at least 50 F-35s at training and test bases in Florida, Arizona, California and Maryland.
F-35 is on track to become by far the military’s most numerous warplane. It was designed to replace almost all current fighters in the Air Force and Marine Corps and complement the Navy’s existing F/A-18s.
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I have a general military question about pilot training. If one is trained mainly in one aspect of flying, say air superiority, would he be as well trained and responsive in other areas, like first strike.
I’m asking this question along the lines of, if a plane can do everything, whether a well trained pilot can do all things well as well?
That’s not to say that a well-trained pilot can’t do everything a pilot is supposed to do, but like any job, if you specialize in a specific area it will generally hurt you in other areas.
Another example would be accounting. There are general accountants, who can pretty much do everything. However, if you sent him into an audit position, he probably wouldn’t be as proficient as an auditor as somebody who has been an auditor for thirty years.
It was a rhetorical question/answer to your question of “do you count them as potential enemies”.
You’re answer was essentially “yes”...
Arggggg... I’ve butchered a contraction.
The biggest mistake since the TFX program, and no amount of spin or Rah Rah will change that. It’s an expensive piece of ****.
I seem to recall the same sort of things being said at the beginning of the Viet Nam war. The F4 Phantom was a fighter designed without a gun.
The DC brainiacs were wrong then... How much smarter are they now?
Mark
The F-35 was never intended as an air superiority fighter. Its role is primarily strike/CAS, and unlike many previous aircraft in this role, its stealth allows it to do things that no other plane in this role could do before. Its stealth capabilities also render the superior manoeuvrability of other fighter aircraft a moot point in most cases. I’d love to see how it compares to a Eurofighter in the air superiority role.
everything i’ve heard is that the F-22 was a superior aircraft... when you remove the sabotage board courtesy of china (and the progressives enabling them)
0failure mothballed it in favor of the F-35 ... which, by all accounts, isn’t very good
meanwhile, the left has insured the chinese received the plans for the F-22... and they’ve been cranking those out, minus the sabotage ofc, for a few years
treason is being committed in so many areas, people barely notice it thru the desensitized haze
A fighter pilot can do anything that a bomber pilot, passenger/cargo plane pilot can do, but will just be bored while doing it.
But a chopper pilot or bush plane pilot, that’s a different thing altogether, I think.
~Its role is primarily strike/CAS, and unlike many previous aircraft in this role, its stealth allows it to do things that no other plane in this role could do before~
CAS? Imagine this thing supporting troops at low altitude and meets some sanddigger with a 50 cal or 23mm cannon. I would like to see how it’s stealth or other extraordinary capabilities would be any helpful to survive encounter.
F-111 for the 21st century!
No this is not what you should be mad at. The engineering brethren will fix the issues, I know them well.
You should be pissed @ DOD / United Technologies for bringing TURKEY in as a partner on the Engine. For the love of G-d that Country has gone off the rails and they are still a partner on this?
Fire Turkey's sorry arse and share nothing with them. Nothing....
After fighter training of a young pilot, he or she is then trained on specific aircraft and its operational envelop and techniques as they are assigned to wings that use that aircraft.
Separate training on special simulators and classrooms.
Who needs cannons when you drop a load of brimstones from a safe distance?
Throwing brimstones from a safe distance is not a CAS mission.
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