We've chosen to kick Him out of schools, out of courts, out of the arts, and out of the public square.
We've chosen poorly.
Posted on 02/11/2022 6:22:32 AM PST by daniel1212
While the range of AAAD has increased since the Iraq war, the graphic seems to show the exact opposite, worse the AAAD sites no longer overlap ... Seems like a PR effort to justify the F-35, rather than show a real world situation.
Speaking of which, there was a recent war game exercise against a peer in which no F-35s were deployed because they would not last more than a few minutes. Any stealth the 35 has is front-on only, and it is visible to passive AESA radars. There only usefulness would be guarding refuelers and AWACS against long range fighters like the J-20 - and because of the longer range BVR missiles employed by the J-20s, SU-57s, SU-35S’, they would be useless or marginal at best.
They would also be up against the best jamming systems in the world (at least against Russia) ; those same systems have successfully jammed GPS, HIMARS artillery, AC-160s, and C&C battle communications in Syria.
Yup. Unbelievable as it sounds, they were ORDERED by the commander in chief himself to take exactly the same path every night.
Positioning radar had very little to do with it. They simple filled the flight path with massive amounts of lead. I'm pretty sure the Russians reimbursed them for the ammo in exchange for access to the crash remains.
Sorta reminds one of LBJ with a map selecting targets every morning. That worked well.
I was a plane captain with a Q squadron back in the ‘70’s...
What an EA-6B could do was amazing.
Now an F-35 can do MORE without ALQ pods?
I’m sold
Absolutely. It wiped Monica Lewinsky right off the front page.
We've chosen to kick Him out of schools, out of courts, out of the arts, and out of the public square.
We've chosen poorly.
Perfect!
Absolutely. It wiped Monica Lewinsky right off the front page.
The bonus was we bombed Serbian Christians to save Kosovo muslims.
The same administration that said “armored vehicles” would look too offensive in Somalia. How many paid with their lives for that debacle?
Optics over safety and a few thousand Somali’s died for it as well as our spec ops guys.
Clinton was awful on military matters. Same story different chapter now.
There was a company that built a simple fuel tank fire suppression system.
It was essentially a flat dry-chem extinguisher. Any force big enough to punch through the extinguisher and rupture the fuel tank would have instantly opened the extinguisher and stifled a fire or explosion before it even got started.
Cheap, compact and easily bolted on to existing inventory.
The Pentagon Perfumed Princes rejected it. It’s only 80% effective.
Go to any National Cemetery or VA hospital. Count the combat vehicle burn victims and imagine that 8 out of 10 were never burned in the first place...
I guess the contractors who gave more to politicians won out with the halon system.....
The buzz about hypersonic missiles isn't coincidence.
It’s very charitable of you to assume the lower level troops got vehicles equipped with expensive Halon® systems. (Maybe they eventually did? I don’t know if Humvees made the cut, or even MRAPS, tanks certainly did.)
Which other nations develop because the US has ACs, while for the US
I think the second graphic is supposed to indicate the reduced range at which the SAMs can observe the F35 as opposed to to 4th gens?
I have a 2005 Jaguar S-Type and I love it. I've had it for 2.5 years and I've only had one problem, which was minor enough for me to fix myself.
I know "in the old days" the electronics on the Jags had the reputation of being awful, as you point out. In 2005 Jaguar was owned by Ford though and I think they improved it a lot. In my fuse boxes there are numerous parts with the Ford logo.
I think the second graphic is supposed to indicate the reduced range at which the SAMs can observe the F35 as opposed to to 4th gens?
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So if that were true and they were your radars, wouldn’t you fill the holes in? Remember they AESA radars can see ‘stealth’ particularly the very limited stealth of the F-35. Distance is more a function of the power the radar is putting out, all other things being equal. Stealth is not what it was when the 35s were designed - things have moved way beyond that now. Again more wishful F-35 PR, aimed at keeping them funded and off the chopping block.
The S-400, 450 and 500 systems can see and track multiple objects simultaneous out over 500 miles, including missiles and satellites - but cannot see 35s? Are the Russians that stupid?
I don’t know about the Chinese systems, but I would not doubt they are every bit as good as the Russian - if not exactly the same (copies). The battle management radars (the ones that fire the missiles) have to overlap or they are worthless. Are the Russians that stupid?
B-21s are going to do the job that the PR lays on the 35s. There are already 6 prototypes built and may be a roll out toward the end of the year or next.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44235/a-sixth-b-21-raider-stealth-bomber-is-now-being-built
I had one in the early ‘70’s. We called it the Princely Valiant.
Just off of memory, it was a Soviet made SAM, maybe a -6. Those, and others, had dual capable tracking - radar and IR. Radar would give them a rough launch target, especially when the bomb bay was open in the attack, and the SAM had a fair chance of acquiring the ‘faint’ heat signature of the F-117.
Changing the routing and timing made them safer, again. Including changing course after weapons release.
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