The stealthy F-35 is a supersonic, multi-role, 5TH Generation fighter designed to replace a wide range of existing aircraft, including AV-8B Harriers, A-10s, F-16s, F/A-18 Hornets and United Kingdom Harrier GR.7s and Sea Harriers.
The stealthy F-35 is a supersonic, multi-role, 5TH Generation fighter designed to replace a wide range of existing aircraft, including AV-8B Harriers, A-10s, F-16s, F/A-18 Hornets and United Kingdom Harrier GR.7s and Sea Harriers.
The F-35 Lightning II lights its afterburner during a ground test at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, Texas, on Monday afternoon, Sept. 18. The Pratt and Whitney F135 engine is the most powerful engine ever in a jet fighter, producing 40,000 pounds of thrust.
And replace the Warthog, sniff, sniff, sniff....
Can anything replace the Warthog? Not even!
Too Cooooooool. Wish I was a fighter pilot.
Does this advance our air superiority over everyone?
Is that Steve Jobs in the cockpit...
I never reconciled to the fact that the F-18 (and for that matter the F-16 as well) was designed as a "slow racehorse" (as Winston Churchill described a plan to save money on naval destroyers by building less capable ones). The F-18 replaced the F-14 but without offering similar speed or range/endurance or armament. And, its intention to save money notwithstanding, it has been a sinkhole for money because it went through three full scale developments: first as the F-17 and twice as the F-18 (the E/F model being about 90% incompatible with earlier models; a whole new plane designed to look like its predecessor).