TaiidanTomcat Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 1 hour ago, 11bee said: First shipboard rolling landing. Pretty cool to watch... That's great! The B is more Bee like by the day. IIRC the first aircraft to do this was the Yak-38 if you believe that Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TaiidanTomcat Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Belgium Selects F-35 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chris L Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Well , if you can't see them, you can't shoot them.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dylan Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 I wonder how many times they had to refuel it between start up and taxi. it seemed to take a while Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TaiidanTomcat Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 1 hour ago, dylan said: I wonder how many times they had to refuel it between start up and taxi. it seemed to take a while Waiting on the helo?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MarkW Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 Another first for BF-04. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Raptor01 Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 (edited) There was a photo of a US F-35B on the elevator of the British Carrier Queen Elizabeth yesterday on Cybermodeler. The coating looks heavily weathered for a jet that probably has not spent much time at sea, if any. How well are these special Radar signature reducing coatings going to be with the amount of touch ups needed during a long cruise? Increase the ops tempo, war time, how effective will stealth remain? Nice modeling canvas for future F-35B & C models.🤣 John Edited October 25, 2018 by Raptor01 Grammar Quote Link to post Share on other sites
11bee Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 On 10/15/2018 at 1:51 PM, TaiidanTomcat said: IIRC the first aircraft to do this was the Yak-38 if you believe that You are correct. Just stumbled upon this vid on Twitter (it's the lower one, I can't edit out the first). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
janman Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 On 10/23/2018 at 1:53 AM, TaiidanTomcat said: Belgium Selects F-35 Interesting. Would have thought otherwise despite the NATO membership. Also, considering all the negativety from Trump towards the European allies I would've thought getting a local product would have mattered. I guess Macron mentioned that too. On the other hand, I guess he (Trump) should be happier now. Interesting for us too. Certainly raises F-35's stakes in our HX-program when another European country goes and selects it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RCAFFAN Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 On 10/15/2018 at 11:51 AM, TaiidanTomcat said: IIRC the first aircraft to do this was the Yak-38 if you believe that Except that once it started down the Yak 38 could not stop or reverse the process such that a few ended up in the water when they screwed up their approach...... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TaiidanTomcat Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 21 hours ago, janman said: Interesting. Would have thought otherwise despite the NATO membership. Also, considering all the negativety from Trump towards the European allies I would've thought getting a local product would have mattered. I guess Macron mentioned that too. On the other hand, I guess he (Trump) should be happier now. Interesting for us too. Certainly raises F-35's stakes in our HX-program when another European country goes and selects it. Trump at most has 6 more years. F-35s are decades of service. The big elephant in the room is F-35 will be B61 capable. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
11bee Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 40 minutes ago, TaiidanTomcat said: Trump at most has 6 more years. F-35s are decades of service. The big elephant in the room is F-35 will be B61 capable. Given that we have many more B61's stored in Turkey, any idea if the Turkish F-35's (if they ever get them, which I hope they don't) will be nuke capable? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
11bee Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 F-35's, (nearly) as far as the eye can see.... Hard to believe but this jet is truly deployed in some real numbers now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
habu2 Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 388th @ 419th FW at Hill AFB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MarkW Posted December 13, 2018 Author Share Posted December 13, 2018 So Navy gonna Navy... https://breakingdefense.com/2018/12/three-attack-subs-not-certified-to-dive-navy-f-35s-at-15-percent-readiness/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ebb 13.12.18&utm_term=Editorial - Early Bird Brief Quote Last year, the F-35 typically had a 15 percent fully mission capable rate, Pendleton said. “Early indications incorporating them into the fleet is that we are seeing some challenges there as well,” he testified. “It took months, sometimes six months or more to get parts repaired and back out to the fleet.” 15% readiness...at least they are firmly in double digits. Kidding aside, this is not terribly unpredictable. Spare management fleetwide will need time to mature for sure. Nice to see ALIS isn't the obvious bogeyman here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
11bee Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Uh-oh.... got another Hater here! https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/09/defense-patrick-shanahan-boeing-pentagon-1064203 Shanahan, this official said, called the plane “f---ed up” and argued that Lockheed — which edged out Boeing to win the competition to build the plane in October 2001 — “doesn’t know how to run a program.” “If it had gone to Boeing, it would be done much better,” Shanahan said, according to the former official. As the Pentagon's No. 2, Shanahan repeatedly "dumped" on the F-35 in meetings, calling the program "unsustainable," and slammed Lockheed Martin's CEO, Marillyn Hewson, according to the second source, a former Trump administration official. "'The cost, the out-years, it's just too expensive, we're not gonna be able to sustain it,'" this person said, quoting Shanahan. Sad that in this day and age, people still hate on the F-35. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Whiskey Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Isn't Shanahan also the former Boeing lobbyist? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
11bee Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 37 minutes ago, Whiskey said: Isn't Shanahan also the former Boeing lobbyist? I’m sure that hasn’t played any role in his opinion. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TaiidanTomcat Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, 11bee said: Uh-oh.... got another Hater here! https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/09/defense-patrick-shanahan-boeing-pentagon-1064203 Shanahan, this official said, called the plane “f---ed up” and argued that Lockheed — which edged out Boeing to win the competition to build the plane in October 2001 — “doesn’t know how to run a program.” “If it had gone to Boeing, it would be done much better,” Shanahan said, according to the former official. As the Pentagon's No. 2, Shanahan repeatedly "dumped" on the F-35 in meetings, calling the program "unsustainable," and slammed Lockheed Martin's CEO, Marillyn Hewson, according to the second source, a former Trump administration official. "'The cost, the out-years, it's just too expensive, we're not gonna be able to sustain it,'" this person said, quoting Shanahan. Sad that in this day and age, people still hate on the F-35. AWWWW I guess we'll never know 😞 Hows that KC-46 coming along anyway? Seems like a Tanker would be pretty straightforward compared to a Tri service, STOVL/shipboarde capable 5th generation multinational stealth strike fighter... Edited January 9, 2019 by TaiidanTomcat Quote Link to post Share on other sites
11bee Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 38 minutes ago, TaiidanTomcat said: Hows that KC-46 coming along anyway? Seems like a Tanker would be pretty straightforward compared to a Tri service, STOVL/shipboarde capable 5th generation multinational stealth strike fighter... LOL The AF tanker program is probably as worthy of a years long, thousand post thread as the F-35 is. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MarkW Posted January 12, 2019 Author Share Posted January 12, 2019 You know he's right, though? At least partially. Lockheed doesn't know how to manage a program. Could you imagine the train wreck-crashing into the Titanic-with a 747 full of school kids falling on all of it mess things would be with Boing?! Misspelling intentional. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tony.t Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 It's just a thing that is designed to slip through missile defences and bomb the cr@p out of something - it's not Miss World Tony Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aussie_superbug Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 On 1/10/2019 at 8:16 AM, 11bee said: LOL The AF tanker program is probably as worthy of a years long, thousand post thread as the F-35 is. You're definitely right there,, And the US would have a new tanker in service now, If Airbus had gotten the contract for it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MarkW Posted January 13, 2019 Author Share Posted January 13, 2019 ”And the US would have a new tanker in service now, If Airbus had gotten the contract for it ” Oh, puuuuuuuleeeeeeeeeeeeze. How's that A400M doing? How hard was it to copy an upscaled C-130? Airbus is not the standard I'd raise. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aussie_superbug Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 34 minutes ago, MarkW said: ”And the US would have a new tanker in service now, If Airbus had gotten the contract for it ” Oh, puuuuuuuleeeeeeeeeeeeze. How's that A400M doing? How hard was it to copy an upscaled C-130? Airbus is not the standard I'd raise. Mark.. Australia went down that path and besides the OT&E issue with the boom falling off that one time, We've have had no operational issues at all. Hey at least we have a new tankers. But this is not the thread to hijack. Lets get back to the F-35 Brendon Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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