>Creates a revolutionary multirole, VTOL capable, carrier functional fighter jet with EW capabilities that will define the next 30 years of aeiral ...

>Creates a revolutionary multirole, VTOL capable, carrier functional fighter jet with EW capabilities that will define the next 30 years of aeiral warfare for the USA (and 60 years of aerial warfare for everyone else)
>Gets absolutely shit on by everyone for not being perfect in every way
What the frick kind of military jet does America need to invent for people to be happy?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >VTOL capable
    STOVL not VTOL

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It is VTOL capable, they just don't do it because it's a waste of fuel.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        No, it basically can't carry a useful weapon payload if it takes off vertically.

        On TOP of having to reduce the fuel load to also lighten the load, which reduces your combat range significantly.

        So in practice, it's simply not capable of VTOL operations for anything but an air show or demonstration.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I hate to defend amerishart tech but airfueling you moron

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          You're still hung up on that lmao

          Seethe and cope, the F35B is better than the Harrier and even the Harrier could do VTOVL

          You're just hopelessly ignorant

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          OP didn't say "VTOL capable with a full combat load" they said "VTOL capable" which is true, the F-35B is VTOL capable.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            homie it's literally can't sortie with a vertical takeoff, it's not about a FULL payload it's about ANY payload.

            I hate to defend amerishart tech but airfueling you moron

            Frick off moron, yes it's THEORETICALLY possible, but why the frick would you bother when you could just fly F-35As along with tankers out from land, or fly F-35Cs from our catapult carriers, or do what they ALREADY do and just do a short take off, and only use the vertical flight mode for landings.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >waaah it can only carry ~7000lbs of fuel and weapons if you want to VTOL
              that's still VTOL capable numbnuts

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          By your definition, "VTOL" does not exist.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            for actual combat aircraft? Yeah pretty much.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              For any aircraft. Because you're artificially limiting the definition of "VTOL" in such a way that you deliberately exclude all actual VTOL-capable aircraft.

              In short, you're being pedantic, and everybody is asking you to stop.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't get why everyone jerks off F-35's EW capabilities when the US itself felt it was necessary to create an EW specific plane

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      We'll never really know because EW is rightfully the most classified offensive capability next to nukes on the planet, but F35 is way more effective than Growler because of the inverse square law. Growler is just going to provide additional jamming from further away.

      OP didn't say "VTOL capable with a full combat load" they said "VTOL capable" which is true, the F-35B is VTOL capable.

      Ignore him, he's a know-nothing in denial with some kind of autism over the F35's VTOL capability

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      We'll never really know because EW is rightfully the most classified offensive capability next to nukes on the planet, but F35 is way more effective than Growler because of the inverse square law. Growler is just going to provide additional jamming from further away.

      [...]
      Ignore him, he's a know-nothing in denial with some kind of autism over the F35's VTOL capability

      Isn't the Growler more of a stopgap between the Prowler and the F-35+whatever loyal wingman EW drones they design?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Might be, I don't know how long they'll keep Growler

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >how long they'll keep Growler
          Probably as long as it's still useful, 30-40 years or more is my guess. And congress will probably keep ordering new ones as long as it gets them re-elected by their constituents that build them. Standard procurement politics stuff.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      We've had EW specific planes way before the F-35

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    One suited to fighting the last war
    >nuuu we can't have F22s bring back F15s
    >nuuu we can't have F18s bring back F14s
    >nuuu we can't have F16s bring back F5s

    Every single major US defence project from Aegis to Abrams has been screeched over by defence eXpErTs. Just ignore the tards

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Bro BVR is the future missile warfare will be king
      >Bro why train our pilots in dogfighting anymore, its going to be pointless
      >Bro why don't we remove the guns from the planes too
      Vietnam happens
      >Bro why are our planes droppung like flies!?!?
      >Bro why can't our missiles hit anything?!?!
      Fast forward 50 years
      >Bro Stealth is the future and will be king
      >Bro why train.....

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        And after adding guns back again, how many Vietnamese jets were shot down using guns? As opposed to using missiles?

        Don't come back without an answer, Black person

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The point being they amounted to kills in situations missiles were not useable

          >bro we should model our planes based on WW2 air combat
          Autism levels overflowing

          That isn't what I said, the point was acting as though all old tech in warfare is pointless the moment something new comes around is fricking moronic. Imagine trying to equip an entire army with hand cannons and not having any swords and tell me how well that would have worked out for that army.

          Ah yes, the advent of the missile where they weren't so reliable or potent in terms of G's and attack angles, and radars were still relatively short range. Face it, BVR is the new norm.
          The only reason they even have guns nowadays isn't even for dogfights as a "just in case", but for other utilitarian uses like popping small aircraft, low monetary value low risk targets, and dumb missiles.

          There will come a day where the F-35 isn't invisible to radar and will need to fall back on being a good fighter/cas which it is medicore at being those all in the name of 'muh stealth' and 'muh ewar muthafukka'

          Blame outdated ROE.
          >>Bro why can't our missiles hit anything?!?!
          The US Navy cleaned house with their missile equipped F-4s

          They also flew different mission profiles than the AF. But the Falcon was a pile of shit attested by Col. Olds who was on record as having said he had launched iirc 7-8 in combat over two sorties and none ever got close to their targets and had his maintenance crews rig up their F-4s for Sidewinders. But there was a reason the guns were added back onto the planes, they were still important. Also hence why Top Gun and whatever the frick the Air Forces program is called were formed.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            You know when guns were invented, there were still generals that preferred bows and crossbows.
            Do you know why? Because guns were too fancy, had slow rates of fire, expensive, etc. Bows were cheap, fast to fire, simple, and had a proven track record. Sound familiar? Its the exact argument you are making
            But guns had a singular advantage, they could penetrate armor. It only took one war with guns to make armor obsolete and make guns the preferred method of fighting.
            You clutch your pearls of the dogfighting plane, the CAS plane, whatever bullshit and are too stupid to realize that you are defending the modern equivalent of a bow and arrow compared to a gun.

            There are technological developments that change the nature of warfare and make things obsolete. I gave you one, but ill give you too more from the naval world.
            You have the dreadnought battleship. As soon as it was built, the dreadnaught turned GB from the most dominant naval superpower to one with one ship: the dreadnought. Every other ship they used to call 20 min ships, a reference to how long they would be able to withstand the dreadnought. A similiar thing happened with aircraft carriers, which after one war made the battleship practically obsolete.

            This shit happens all the time, if you cant understand that after i just spoonfed you a crash course in history, then i dont know what to tell you

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >There will come a day where the F-35 isn't invisible to radar and will need to fall back on being a good fighter/cas which it is medicore at being those all in the name of 'muh stealth' and 'muh ewar muthafukka'
            every fricking country tgat has tested the F35 has come out saying it is better in a2a combat maneuvering than its competitors.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            will come a day where the F-35 isn't invisible to radar and will need to fall back on being a good fighter/cas which it is medicore at being those all in the name of 'muh stealth' and 'muh ewar muthafukka'
            This is moronic because it can still carry a ton of shit anyway

            He's not *completely* wrong here; the LHDs had to get their landing spots refurbished in order to handle the heat from the F-135, which is a lot more powerful than the Harrier's output. It *was* an issue, but a few million dollars fixed it.

            Yeah, because there's something called "can" and "should consistently over 40 years". Like I said, grit and something sticky that can handle the new heat load gg, the steel underneath with only minimal protection should be fine even after thousands of launches.

            Even the modern US air force doesn’t care for BVR for most purposes. The kill rates for BVRAAMs is atrocious and their main role is for intercepting AWACS and heavy bombers. An important role, but not enough to be the backbone of the air doctrine.

            Wrong
            Pretty much every major Airforce simulation includes BVR as priority.
            We're on our way to mostly pilotless planes soon being honest.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >bro we should model our planes based on WW2 air combat
        Autism levels overflowing

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Ah yes, the advent of the missile where they weren't so reliable or potent in terms of G's and attack angles, and radars were still relatively short range. Face it, BVR is the new norm.
        The only reason they even have guns nowadays isn't even for dogfights as a "just in case", but for other utilitarian uses like popping small aircraft, low monetary value low risk targets, and dumb missiles.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The stat that amuses me the most is that the RAF Typhoon has fired a grand total of 26 (twenty six) cannon shells fighting ISIS, as opposed to dropping thousands of PGMs

          A 1.5 second burst. Maybe even by mistake or some bong fricking around, who knows. Think of all the money sunk into developing and buying and maintaining that weapon. On a per expended shell basis it's probably a more expensive capability than Zumwalt's shells.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            What was it even shooting at lmao
            Being fair during the falklands most of harriers kills were from behind in aggressive dogfighting, where guns may have worked, but sidewinders work better.
            Shame they wasted 9L's, when the tactics they used to kill the strike aircraft was still stuck in AIM-9G and had not adapted, so those would have worked just as well.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Even the modern US air force doesn’t care for BVR for most purposes. The kill rates for BVRAAMs is atrocious and their main role is for intercepting AWACS and heavy bombers. An important role, but not enough to be the backbone of the air doctrine.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Blame outdated ROE.
        >>Bro why can't our missiles hit anything?!?!
        The US Navy cleaned house with their missile equipped F-4s

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The missiles shot more planes down than guns to the point the Russians made their own Air to Air missile. Go frick yourself.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >muh Vietnam
        Frick off, Spreytard

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Vietnam was a massive wakeup call that technology will not always win the day. Also you seem upset.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Vietnam was 1975. 47 years at this point. Guns may always be nice to have, but they get more and more irrelevant as time goes on.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Vietnam was a wake up call to keep improving technology and keep developing techniques like SEAD. They were right about missiles just of a decade. If you’re trying to argue against having technological superiority you’re just moronic.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah, that's why Russians are doing so well in Ukraine using their cheap and simple weapons. Here's an idea, western weapons cost money because they work

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >>Bro Stealth is the future and will be king
        >>Bro why train.....
        What is your point? What are you proposing as the future of aerial combat?

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    People were shitting on aircraft carriers when they were invented too anon, including high level military personnel. It will prove itself in time and be obvious in hindsight. Sdaly anyone with a brain has to read moronic comments in the meantime

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's not about building the right kind of jet, it's about identifying the Russian assets and tracing things back to their handlers and enablers.
    As well as providing adequate education reform so Congress and media are not full of literal morons.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Only 1/3 are VTOL
    Ignore these morons int he thread, VTOL is still useful even on low payload/fuel for protecting small craft it can be based on secondarily, while still being able to full load from a carrier when not so strapped.
    Anyone who says "Muh payload" or "muh fuel" seems to think these things need a full complement of fuel and weaponry to be useful when they don't, and it can basically then land on any craft in the fleet or makeshift landing zone when its done.

    People look at the gulf as a "proof" as to the "unnecessary need to STOVL" but the gulf was dunking of fricking durka's, there was no retaliation against bases, or nuclear hellfire/total war.
    VTOL is valuable until the world becomes only sall hand launched suicide drones, and I am sick of morons pretending it's not.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      STOVL is simply more accurate

      No one flies the F-35B VTOL, it just doesn't happen outside of test flights and demonstrations.

      EVERY single ship that carriers F-35Bs does short take off and vertical landing, NOT vertical take off.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yes because every ship that carriers F35's in peacetime are carriers you moron. The utility lies in that it can be dumped onto basically any ship that can carry a helo for when your carriers inevitably explodes and you're left there with your dick in your hand.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Arguably you could launch F35's off a conventional cargo ship lmao

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Nope, even on the carriers that ARE rated for STOVL landings of the F-35B, if they do a VTOL take off it can actually damage the deck because they're not designed to have the F-35B jet exhaust blasted down on them at close range for a takeoff.

          And ships that aren't already designed for the F-35B would have their decks melted by the heat.

          >waaah it can only carry ~7000lbs of fuel and weapons if you want to VTOL
          that's still VTOL capable numbnuts

          7000lbs of fuel AND payload, the F-35B has a 13,000lbs fuel capacity. So that means with NO weapons you can take off with slightly more than half of your fuel capacity.

          Wow amazing

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >7000lbs of fuel AND payload
            Right, that's what I said. That means the F-35 is capable of VTOL

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >That means the F-35 is capable of VTOL
              You're just arguing semantics, my dear Black folk.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Anon, you're the one who showed up saying "actually the F-35 technically isn't VTOL capable because it can't VTOL with a full combat load"

                Can the plane take off or land vertically? Y/N

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                So it can take off with 1 or 2 AMRAAMs and 200 miles worth of fuel

                Sick, how "useful"

                again, outside of an end of the world scenario where your F-35 fleet is probably already destroyed why the frick would you EVER want to do a vertical take off? It just doesn't make sense to even list it as a capability when it will literally never in it's 60 year service life do that.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Anon, is it VTOL capable, yes or no? You keep adding all these qualifiers instead of just answering the question.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You tell me, homosexual.

                Every military in the world that operates them uses them as STOVL aircraft, it was designed to operate as a STOVL aircraft, and everything officially calls it STOVL and not VTOL

                so yeah, it's STOVL.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                is it, or is it not capable of taking off or landing vertically

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                F-35B is capable of VTOL. Harrier was capable of VTOL. Yak-38 was capable of VTOL.

                Aside from a few test flights and demonstrations in peacetime, nobody has ever used any of them in VTOL mode, because direct-thrust VTOL is foolish. STOVL (or STOL for ground ops) is so vastly superior in terms of payload that it's not even funny. What's the tactical advantage of giving up most of your range and firepower?

                But to claim that the platforms are not capable of VTOL, simply because nobody uses them that way operationally, is equally foolish... and pedantic.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >nobody has ever used any of them in VTOL mode
                Not quite correct, picrel

                [...]
                Listen here you smug morons, shut the hell up. Yes it can VTOL, but its weight capacity doing so is insufficient for conducting any meaningful sorties. After spending it's full payload and half it's fuel capacity it can VTOL land no problem. Now shut up, shut the hell up, both of you.
                >Source: my ass and this thread, whichever is more credible is up for debate.

                >its weight capacity doing so is insufficient for conducting any meaningful sorties
                "Meaningful" is subjective. The RAF and the USMC began operating the Harrier long before it could match the F-35 today in combat radius, and didn't have a problem with that.

                STOVL is short take-off and vertical landing

                VTOL is vertical take-off AND landing

                So when I call it STOVL, I fully agree it can land on a burke or similar flattop if it needed to in an emergency.

                It just would never be flown for a combat sortie from a vertical takeoff. Which is why operationally it is STOVL and not VTOL.

                >It just would never be flown for a combat sortie from a vertical takeoff
                There is every chance that it will and you are a pedantic Black person

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                is it, or is it not capable of taking off or landing vertically

                Listen here you smug morons, shut the hell up. Yes it can VTOL, but its weight capacity doing so is insufficient for conducting any meaningful sorties. After spending it's full payload and half it's fuel capacity it can VTOL land no problem. Now shut up, shut the hell up, both of you.
                >Source: my ass and this thread, whichever is more credible is up for debate.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >2 AMRAAMs and 200 miles worth of fuel
                Dude that's not even that bad, add a bit of forward STOV push off the edge of the deck for a few kg of extra lift and you might get 350 miles in it.
                >B-but it sucks
                Yes, the risk of losing your carrier and thus your entire air fleet does suck chinkoid, but unlike America that can still land and launch off of nearby ships if its carrier does down, you will have to make do.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Dude that's not even that bad, add a bit of forward STOV push off the edge of the deck for a few kg of extra lift and you might get 350 miles in it.
                Oh wow, look motherfricker, it's literally what it's designed for STOVL.

                have a nice day and stop calling it VTOL capable.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >stop calling it VTOL capable.
                but it is tho

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It wasn't designed to be, and no one will ever use it as one.

                Cry all you want, but VTOL it is not.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yet it is capable of taking off vertically, curious.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Not curious at all, just a neat trick to show morons like yourself and get your pants creaming over nothing.

                It isn't useful in any capacity and it will NEVER happen in a combat situation even once in your pathetic lifespan.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Brother you’re dancing around the question like you’re Beyoncé

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                He also forgets you can A2A refuel with long range fuel takers after transporting fuel inefficient jets in somewhat marginally more safety via hundreds of frigates than one super carrier.
                A carrier has a value in that a nuclear reactor is keeping it up and fueled for months on end, as well as being more cost and personnel efficient.
                But it's also vulnerable to attack, and most of its major enemies center on removing carriers out of the equation as soon as they can even at the cost of a ton of resources, because of the sheer value of a carrier and its carried load.
                Thus spreading out your air fleet into your small ships not only spreads your risk, but you can also launch more, faster, from multiple ships, and VTOL means you don't lose your entire jet fleet once your carrier burns in hostile seas.

                Yes, they wont have the range till they're refueled,but planes in the air is planes in the air.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                checkd

                >Bro BVR is the future missile warfare will be king
                >Bro why train our pilots in dogfighting anymore, its going to be pointless
                >Bro why don't we remove the guns from the planes too
                Vietnam happens
                >Bro why are our planes droppung like flies!?!?
                >Bro why can't our missiles hit anything?!?!
                Fast forward 50 years
                >Bro Stealth is the future and will be king
                >Bro why train.....

                wasted dubs on baka post

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Oh, it could certainly happen, if, for example, a F-35 had to make an emergency landing and the only ship it could reach was a Burke. The benefits of conducting normal operations like that would be far outweighed by the benefits of bringing along an actual flattop, though, and every operator of the F-35B seems to agree on that point.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                STOVL is short take-off and vertical landing

                VTOL is vertical take-off AND landing

                So when I call it STOVL, I fully agree it can land on a burke or similar flattop if it needed to in an emergency.

                It just would never be flown for a combat sortie from a vertical takeoff. Which is why operationally it is STOVL and not VTOL.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                "Operationally". Do you honestly not see the difference between having a capability and using it? AH-1s have the capability to perform CAP missions; but, nobody in their right mind would use them as such outside of extreme circumstances. And yet, the Marines insist on training with Sidewinders on occasion, just in case.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It vertically lands all the time, it will NEVER vertically take off in an operational capacity.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                But it's VTOL capable.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >stop calling it VTOL capable.
                but it is tho

                The F-35B can do VTOL in emergencies, but it wasn't designed for this and isn't used doctrinally either. It can't do VTOL with a full weapons load either, that being said that VTOL capability is probably for if it needs to do an emergency landing.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You don't need a full weapons or fuel load anon, spreading your risk across multiple ships and backup dependency is the value.
                Over dependence on carriers and static air strips is fine till it's not and you're launching from tiny island land strips that can only handle STOVL, or small frigates.

                With the Harrier, a return store rating. (That is the max fuel + weapons allowed) for a vertical landing is 2,500 lbs.
                For the F35, it is double at 5,000lbs.
                If they did it and found it useful with harrier, for frick sake they can do it with the F35B.

                Please, shut the frick up you utter embarrassment.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >they did it and found it useful with harrier, for frick sake they can do it with the F35B
                Precisely

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                anon calm down, I'm not even the guy you were arguing with. You were just going back and forth on if it could VTOL or not so I put my two cents in

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Naruto calm down yourself I am just very enthusiastic about aircraft and unlike most enthusiasts I respect modern planes for the value they provide
                A Navy F18 landing on a USA super carrier is rated for 4,000 lbs using a cable trap. Which is less than a 1500lb F35 doing vert landing, just think about that.

                The only autist I'm actuallly mad at is the one that said the F35B can't take off from anything besides specialised carrier flight decks lmao.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >1500lb
                I meant to say 5000lb F35B, shit.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Ships that aren't already designed for the F-35B would have their decks melted by the heat.
            Black person now I know you're talking shit
            I don't recall any issues with the harrier on even non carrier launches, and even in your theoretical dreams you can still place and bolt down thermal protectors on any deck. Brainlet.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Yeah im sure this is why japan is spending hundreds of millions to replace the deck of their helicopter carriers in order to operate the F-35Bs.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >helicopter carriers
                >not fit to operate jet fighters
                no way

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                They're replacing it so they never have to worry about wear and tear. Are you moronic or do you just read F35 hate threads on moron military forums?
                The metal flight deck of an aircraft carrier has a urethane bonded, grit sand loaded antiskid coating on it, that can handle all types of insult including a minute or two of a jets downdraft or fuel fire.
                I don't think you can cook a chicken in that downdraft so I'm sure the deck coating can take whatever jet butt heat is pointed at it. The metal under the non skid coating sure doesn't care for 60 seconds.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >I don't think you can cook a chicken in that downdraft so I'm sure the deck coating can take whatever jet butt heat is pointed at it. The metal under the non skid coating sure doesn't care for 60 seconds
                You'd be wrong because that's actually full blown jet exhaust that keeps an F35B hovering over the deck for a few minutes, so yes the decks need reinforcing in order to have an appreciable lifespan - an untreated deck might survive a couple of landings but might have structural damage

                That moron is however wrong because he insists that F35B being able to land vertically is TOTALLY DIFFERENT YO from being able to take off vertically. Any non-moron with a basic understanding of physics would know that this isn't true.

                Max speed mach 1.3 for less than 60 seconds in peacetime => jet is useless as an interceptor.
                Using supersonic speed for too long and the hull starts to break down.

                The F-35 is gimped because it tried to do too much at once. It should have been designed as a carrier STOL aircraft first, then make a land version without foldable wings. The VTOL version should have been a completely different aircraft. Because this was not done, the aircraft is too short and stubby with subsequent loss of performance.

                And this other moron joins the party

                Don't be disingenuous, you know very well the tests were for hours at a time and it wasn't structural damage but merely bubbling of the RAM coating that occurred

                So it can take off with 1 or 2 AMRAAMs and 200 miles worth of fuel

                Sick, how "useful"

                again, outside of an end of the world scenario where your F-35 fleet is probably already destroyed why the frick would you EVER want to do a vertical take off? It just doesn't make sense to even list it as a capability when it will literally never in it's 60 year service life do that.

                Ah, so you finally admit that it can in fact VTOL regardless of its designation? Dipshit.

                Actually it's four AMRAAMs and more like 300nm combat radius, which is about twice more than the Harrier was rated for.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >That moron is however wrong because he insists that F35B being able to land vertically is TOTALLY DIFFERENT YO from being able to take off vertically. Any non-moron with a basic understanding of physics would know that this isn't true.

                Think about it

                A full loaded jet with fuel, weapons, taking off vertically requires more thrust, OR the same thrust for a longer duration than that SAME aircraft landing with almost no fuel left and the same weapon payload.

                So clearly take off is more damaging than landing due to basic physics.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It's not about damage it's about weight, which anyway has been tested and although not part of SOP will be used in combat if need be

                The point is that F35B whatever its designation can perfectly well carry 4 weapons, VTO, fly ~150nm and recover with 4 weapons if needed. This has been tested by LM. It's KNOWN.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                and it will still NEVER happen because you can double the range by just using the deck to take off normally.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >it will still NEVER happen
                That wasn't the point, the point is that contrary to what you say, it's perfectly doable

                >NEVER
                is a very long time by the way. Don't be so sure about that one. Especially if they do end up putting in the new engine after all.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Not curious at all, just a neat trick to show morons like yourself and get your pants creaming over nothing.

                It isn't useful in any capacity and it will NEVER happen in a combat situation even once in your pathetic lifespan.

                So it IS VTOL capable then.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Structural damage
                LMAO
                Black person you just spray that shit with high heat bondo and sand grit and call it a day. Any heat stress on the STEEL hull underneath will be frick all, since THICK steel spreads heat fast and they're usually designed to not die just from a bit of temperature change, and over several tons of steel it WILL be minimal for the wartime expectancy.
                You have no idea how ships work at all.
                Shut the frick up.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              He's not *completely* wrong here; the LHDs had to get their landing spots refurbished in order to handle the heat from the F-135, which is a lot more powerful than the Harrier's output. It *was* an issue, but a few million dollars fixed it.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >how to tell people you have a <95 iq without telling people you have a <95 iq
              landing zones can be refurbished for cheap if they have to, so stop over exaggerating totally solvable problems just for the sake of an internet argument
              you mouth breathing Black person

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You quoted the wrong post.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >magical deck can sustain F35B jet exhaust for landing but not for taking off BECAUSE I SAY SO
            moron

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Oh no not the deckerinos being damaged for a year of war that gets "repainted" with new grit after 5 years of wartime use
            Yeah, you're a moron but it's ok

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Sweaty, just because they don't show you doesn't mean it doesn't happen
        You never saw Harrier doing VTOVL missions either yet they often did

        The reason is because you are a smart aleck ignorant moron in denial

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      VTOL for land based operation is not worth the crippling penalties it inflicts on the airframe. STOL performance with start and landing within 800-1000 feet is good enough, particulary if the aircraft has large diameter wheels that can handle non paved surfaces. With the huge amount of air bleeding from a turbofan it should be possible to make a very short take off and landing aircraft that can go airborne in 500 feet by redirecting bleed air over the wings. And landing, just use a thrust reverser like swedish jets. This would enable forward basing in very "ghetto" settings.

      The VTOL jet would have to be made completely different so it could take off with an useable payload. Then it could even be forward based on an LCS. Its just that you have to accept that such a jet may not have the same performance envelope as a conventional fighter jet. F.ex a turbofan with higher bypass ratio than usual = more air to blow downwards = no supersonic speed without afterburner, but long time on station and good range.

      The F35 is so expensive to buy and operate that it has shrunk european airforces more than Luftwaffe ever did.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it's the nature of armchair generals. the burgers could unveil a 9th gen space fighter with an A.T. field and mass drivers and they would complain that if it had particle accelerators instead it would have glassed china in 10 minutes instead of 15

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >What the frick kind of military jet does America need to invent for people to be happy?
    Basically next time exclude the Marines from the process.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    posting in (yet another) state sponsored propaganda thread

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      wait you guys are getting paid for this shit?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        upvoted

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Max speed mach 1.3 for less than 60 seconds in peacetime => jet is useless as an interceptor.
    Using supersonic speed for too long and the hull starts to break down.

    The F-35 is gimped because it tried to do too much at once. It should have been designed as a carrier STOL aircraft first, then make a land version without foldable wings. The VTOL version should have been a completely different aircraft. Because this was not done, the aircraft is too short and stubby with subsequent loss of performance.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >jet is useless as an interceptor
      good thing it's not an interceptor I guess

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >good thing it's not an interceptor I guess

        Every jet must work as an interceptor chasing down unknown aircraft. The F-35 has the performance of a Mig-19 or Super Sabre in this role.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The trick is to detect the unknown aircraft and scramble your F-35s earlier then I guess.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          > gets deleted by AMRAAM

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >The F-35 has the performance of a Mig-19 or Super Sabre in this role
          Ah yes, the moron reveals himself

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      How fast does the missile go

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      it wasn't designed to be an interceptor
      >supersonic speed for too long and the hull starts to break down
      hasn't this been debunked numerous times?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yup, and in combat missions pilots are allowed to go supersonic for as long as they want. There is no imposed limit to the speed except in training and normal non-combat patrol type shit.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >hasn't this been debunked numerous times?

        On the contrary, it turned out that the supersonic limit was measured in tens of seconds, and that it was impossible to do loft bombing exercises because of this. And the supersonic damage turned out to not be just ram material disintegrating, it was also some antennas breaking down from heat.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Literally lying

          https://www.defensenews.com/smr/hidden-troubles-f35/2020/05/22/the-inside-story-of-two-supersonic-flights-that-changed-how-america-operates-the-f-35/

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Jokes aside though everyone always discusses the maneuverability, stealth, and weapons load when these F-35 debates come up, I almost never see anything about it's actually pretty good EW system and it's towed decoys which give it a big boost in survivability

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Lockheed is the Sig of aviation.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't know why people keep bashing F35. If multirole have a tech tree, F35 will be straight level up from Rafale. It was omnirole that is good for everything plus stealth and better EW. This the greatest multirole/omnirole fighter ever. Why people hate it?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Did the actual plane itself get much hate?

      From what I remember the hate was for the delays and budget overruns.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Lol you have no idea anon

        Critics said it couldn't dogfight WVR, stealth was impossible, it didn't have enough range, sensor fusion was a meme and EW was vapourware

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >The F-35 is a lemon. No amount of smoke and mirrors can change this well known fact this late in the game. The cat is out of the bag. Why not just fess up? When a squadron of these Swiss Army Knives have to face off against a few SU-35’s and a squadron of updated SU-27’s, and our trillion dollar mistake gets face planted on the plains of Eastern Europe, it will be a harder pill to swallow, no?
          i almost miss it

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Ahh the good ol days, before we knew Russia's best, most modern fighters can't operate within 500km of a western SAM from the mid 2000s, let alone a squadron of 5th gen stealth fighters.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    F-35 is cursed by all of the setbacks during its design and testing phase being public to get torn apart by the press. Every combat plane goes through the exact same process when its starting out, but because those records were classified no one knows so they can't fixate and complain about those.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's not that they were classified, it's just that there was no Internet, so the argument was covered mostly in newspapers and the occasional 60-Minutes-style hit-piece.

      And, well, very few of us are old enough to remember what the press said back then about the same 4th-gen planes that it worships today.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      So just like the F-16?

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What's the ridge on the port side on top and behind the intake?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's where the optional gun is installed.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >>Gets absolutely shit on by everyone for not being perfect in every way
    By who? Military experts? Whenever I've read or heard things from actual military people, I've heard nothing but praises for the F-35. The critique comes from 1. Politicians who pretends to care about the prize to appease to voters and 2. Civilians who saw a negative clickbait article once and pretends to know what they're talking about. Su-57 doesn't even come close. For me personally, I want to have sex with an F-35. It's design is the perfect mix of cute and sexy. Great gf material.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Every negative thing ever said about this plane can be traced back to Pierre Sprey. Luckily hes dead now

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Fricking finally. Can't wait for all the "fighter mafia" homosexuals to kick the bucket. Especially that "Gavin" gay

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it costs $400m per plane and 3/4s of that comes directly out of my pocket so frick this plane in particular

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Well, the original project team assigned to the JSF program was awful, and almost wrecked the whole thing, costing the US several years and several billion dollars in delays. Thankfully, they all got transferred or promoted elsewhere, and their replacements got the program back on track--including dealing with some serious weight issues that the first team had left behind.

    So, yeah, everybody "remembers" that it used to be awful, but "forgot" that it got fixed. Just like nobody "remembers" the furor over the F-14, F-15, F-16, F-18, and even F-22 programs early on. Heck, I didn't even realize until a few months ago that the F-35 actually has the same maximum weapons payload as the A-6E(!) with >2/3rds the range, because nobody seems to want to talk about its actual capabilities, just its mostly-fixed flaws.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    dogfighting is obsolete.
    traditional bombers are obsolete.
    gunships are obsolete.

    Is the future of air combat going be nothing more than shitting out tons of missiles from hundreds of miles away.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >dogfighting is obsolete.
      Nah, but stealth is still an extremely useful ability, if you can approach your enemy and fire short range missiles without being detected until the missile launch you’ll probably win the dogfight.

      >traditional bombers are obsolete.
      Yes, modern fighters are heavy enough to carry any munitions they might reasonably need. Unless you want to carry cruise missiles just stick the munitions on an F-15/16/18/35.

      >gunships are obsolete.
      Helicopters have some flexibility, but AC-130 and attack planes like the A-10 are dumb.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        AC-130s are for sustained COIN operations. The fact that they can circle around locations providing consistent fire support give them some purpose. A-10 isn’t an gunship but is moronic. Attack helicopters are certainly going to replaced by drones in any major military by the end of the century.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Gets absolutely shit on by everyone for not being perfect in every way
    Critique makes you better. Of course, in perfect world it would be only civilised, constructive criticism.
    Look at vatniks how mindless fellating your own hardware as best ever works for you.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >What the frick kind of military jet does America need to invent for people to be happy?

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