Posted on 08/03/2023 4:34:53 AM PDT by nuconvert
The Marines just landed an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter on an old 50-foot-wide highway in Southern California, refueled and rearmed, and took back off again. At this same improvised forward arming and refueling point, a Marine MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor passed over a torpedo to a waiting Navy MH-60R Seahawk helicopter. This was a glimpse of what is to come for future Marine operations in the Pacific, and The War Zone was there to watch all of it unfold.
This week VMX-1 gathered nine squadrons and other units from the Marines, Air Force, and Navy to conduct the latest iteration of a training event known as ‘Obsidian Iceberg.’ The United States Marine Corps knows that in order to win any future conflict in the Indo-Pacific theater they will have to work like never before with the other services, and do so from very austere locales. Preparing to win that conflict and writing the playbook needed for it falls on the shoulders of the Marines of Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron One (VMX-1).
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Were the pilots trannies?
What did they think of Barbie?
I hope the personnel involved was diverse.
Details…
I do feel bad for the actual normal people in the military.
Neato! Mobility and flexibility displayed by the USMC. Yet do we want to risk a $135 million aircraft on the ground near a war front?
In war you end up risking it all.
I retired right before the F-35 power plant overhaul work came to my DoD facility.
At over 18 feet long and 4 feet wide it pretty much dwarfs the other engine platforms in the facility....it’s a monster.
I haven’t been paying attention for some years now.
Did they fix the issues they were having previously?
The ongoing issue is that it tends to run too hot. A design problem from the beginning. Also, turbine blade life cycle is shorter than desired.....that one can be corrected I think.
The over temp issue however.....
.....from another web site...
“The US Air Force Quietly Admits the F-35 is a Failure”
The Air Force has announced a new study into the tactical aviation requirements of future aircraft, dubbed TacAir. In the process of doing so, Air Force chief of staff General Charles Q. Brown finally admitted what’s been obvious for years: The F-35 program has failed to achieve its goals. There is, at this point, little reason to believe it will ever succeed.
According to Brown,(Opens in a new window) the USAF doesn’t just need the NGAD (Next Generation Air Dominance) fighter, a sixth-generation aircraft — it also needs a new, “5th-generation minus / 4.5th-generation aircraft.” Brown acknowledged some recent issues with the F-35 and suggested one potential solution was to fly the plane less often. “I want to moderate how much we’re using those aircraft,” the general said. “You don’t drive your Ferrari to work every day, you only drive it on Sundays. This is our high end, we want to make sure we don’t use it all for the low-end fight... We don’t want to burn up capability now and wish we had it later.”........
Loud as hell......................
That’s the SOUND OF FREEDOM my friend. 😉
That’s what we say around here....................
Thank you both.
As long as it will fit in a COD!
When the interstate highways were designed, they designed some stretches very straight so they could be used as emergency landing strips in wartime.
Yup
“The US Air Force Quietly Admits the F-35 is a Failure”
That was two years ago. The F-35 had a lot of problems initially, and those cost us a lot of money, but it now seems most of them have been resolved.
Countries around the world have gone from skeptical to desperate to buy F-35s.
Israel is one of those countries, purchasing another squadron of fighters. However, I do like the F-22. Too bad that contract was cancelled during the Obama administration.
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