New F-35C Joint Strike Fighters preparing for launch from the USS Carl Vinson, USNI News
Posted on 09/10/2021 8:57:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
For the first time ever a US Navy aircraft carrier with F-35 stealth fighters on board has entered the South China Sea this week. The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group entered the contested waters near China days ago, and subsequently the Navy released a photo of an F-35 launching from the Carl Vinson.
This comes as the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold is gaining most attention from Beijing after it sailed near Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands, which is an area long claimed by China.
New F-35C Joint Strike Fighters preparing for launch from the USS Carl Vinson, USNI News
Business Insider details of the new stealth fighter carrier deployment, "The F-35A is a variant built for the Air Force. The F-35B, mainly used by the Marine Corps, is designed to fight from amphibious assault ships. And the C variant is designed to operate aboard US Navy carriers. It can carry more fuel and weaponry and is built for catapult launches and fly-in arrestments."
A subsequent report in Chinese state mouthpiece Global Times indicated that the presence of both the Benfold and stealth jet carrying Vinson carrier has put the PLA military on 'high alert'.
Global Times wrote: "As the first carrier to get the F-35C, the USS Carl Vinson went straight to the South China Sea with the aim of deterring China, but China has already developed a number of anti-stealth radar systems, so the F-35C can be detected, Fu said, noting that China also has countermeasures against the vertical take-off and landing-capable CMV-22Bs, which could land on islands and reefs in the region."
US Navy image of F-35C Lightning II launching from a carrier for the first time in the South China Sea.
The PLA Southern Theater Command meanwhile charged the US Navy with "trespassing" and "violating" Chinese sovereign waters. It particular it claimed to have "warned off" the USS Benfold destroyer from near the reefs during the Wednesday incident. The US responded that the navy continues upholding lawful freedom of navigation operations.
State media also called the carrier's arrival with the stealth jets on board a "provocative deployment" which China is able to counter if needed.
Let’s see how Slow Joe and his mob of woke imbeciles can screw this up.
I’m kind of expecting Joe to somehow arrange for one of them to fall into the hands of the PLA.
Pure puffery. The laws of physics preclude tracking a stealth aircraft with precision enough to lay ordnance on it.
You just wait until we sic our UAPs on you China!
Not really. The opposite is true. This isn’t 1981 anymore.
Computing power is easily 5000 times faster than the era when the F-117 was built.
We update stealth airframes every decade or so roughly, and they are only a slight improvement. Processing power is exploding exponentially. That power is sorting through the signal the antenna is picking up.
In Stealth vs radar, stealth is hopelessly outclassed and it’s only going to get worse.
“The laws of physics preclude tracking a stealth aircraft with precision enough to lay ordnance on it. “
Ummm.....okay?
>> Business Insider details of the new stealth fighter
BI is a Leftwing rag.
Dubious report.
They can detect on and off but can’t get a consistent lock-on for targeting. This is by design. No one expected the 35 to be completely invisible to their radars.
“I’m kind of expecting Joe to somehow arrange for one of them to fall into the hands of the PLA.”
Aircraft carrier or F-35?
Both
It is interesting that The USA is challenging China in the South China Sea while eagerly allying with them to develop lethal biowarfare diseases that can only benefit China as China can afford and would willingly lose hundreds of millions of its population to a created pathogen that also kills hundreds of millions in Europe and North America as this Coronavirus may yet do indirectly with the official anti-virus actions.
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Well, I was thinking the F-35... But good point. Could be both. The ‘10% to the Big Guy’ would be huge on that deal.
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