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10 Mind-Blowing Facts About The World’s Most Advanced Stealth Jet
10 Mind-Blowing Facts About The World’s Most Advanced Stealth Jet There’s a lot you may not know about the F-35. Get up to speed at F35.com. (www.buzzfeed.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
My first reading of #1 came up with "landing vertically faster than the speed of sound". Maybe it can, once.
6. The cockpit is almost entirely digital — with a glass LCD touchscreen and “hardly any hardwire switches.”
>> Totally begs the issue, which is good human factors design. As mentioned in other posts, software located touch screen is seriously questionable in a high-performance aircraft. NDA and security issues do not allow me to remark further, but short of a ringing endorsement from a military pilot who has actually flown this beast, I would be very skeptical.
7. The F-35 has recovered 100% of the time from all high angle of attack testing including 90 degrees straight up.
>> Well DUH! It is fly-by-wire aircraft with vectored nozzles! That should pretty much be a minimum spec.
8. More than 1,300 American suppliers in 47 states contribute to the F-35 program.
>> Translation: If we had not put some PORK in almost every state we could not have kept this program alive.
9. 8.6 Million lines of software code give the F-35 its superior capabilities.
>> Meaning over it’s service life you can look forward to finding and trying to fix or work around 86,000 bugs or flaws. I trust most of them will not be mission critical.
10. The F-35’s unprecedented stealth capabilities can render it “virtually undetectable” to radar.
>> Sure, keep pushing this myth. An aircraft’s radar profile varies with every different angle from which you can view it. It is hard enough to attenuate most of the signals coming from below, but when you attempt all angles there are lots of compromises. I’ll take an AGM-88 or two hung on an aircraft with optimized aerodynamics any day over any passive stealth technology.
>> Totally begs the issue, which is good human factors design. As mentioned in other posts, software located touch screen is seriously questionable in a high-performance aircraft. NDA and security issues do not allow me to remark further, but short of a ringing endorsement from a military pilot who has actually flown this beast, I would be very skeptical.
7. The F-35 has recovered 100% of the time from all high angle of attack testing including 90 degrees straight up.
>> Well DUH! It is fly-by-wire aircraft with vectored nozzles! That should pretty much be a minimum spec.
8. More than 1,300 American suppliers in 47 states contribute to the F-35 program.
>> Translation: If we had not put some PORK in almost every state we could not have kept this program alive.
9. 8.6 Million lines of software code give the F-35 its superior capabilities.
>> Meaning over it’s service life you can look forward to finding and trying to fix or work around 86,000 bugs or flaws. I trust most of them will not be mission critical.
10. The F-35’s unprecedented stealth capabilities can render it “virtually undetectable” to radar.
>> Sure, keep pushing this myth. An aircraft’s radar profile varies with every different angle from which you can view it. It is hard enough to attenuate most of the signals coming from below, but when you attempt all angles there are lots of compromises. I’ll take an AGM-88 or two hung on an aircraft with optimized aerodynamics any day over any passive stealth technology.
full disclosure - yes I worked for L-M competitors, but I also spent time at Lockheed.
I read from several sources the F-22 is a much better aircraft. Yet that project was scrapped in favor of the Three-Five....I guess that was due to politics.
So this is what they plan to replace the A10 with? They're smoking something.
As was mentioned elsewhere, I want to see them trying to do something on a touch screen while pulling a 3G turn.
Don´t forget that the Air Force types are always demanding the latest and most expensive toys properly adorned with the latest bells and whistles available and after a contract is signed new additions/modifications/enhancements are tacked on shooting the cost up even higher. See they don´t have a clue that money does not grow on tres or fell from the sky. Naturally dancing this tango also requires the appropriate collaboration of high-priced lobbysts cultivating congressmen of the states where the weapon system is to be built and of course the so patriotic and accomodating defense industry who wil continue laughing all the way to the bank.
>> These are conflicting design goals that only made it expensive and fat.
2. Oh, and it can take off with more than nine tons of ordnance.
>> Which is actually wimpy due to the above conflicting design goals. The Douglas A-4, which came off the drawing boards in the 50’s, could travel near transonic, had a total weight of only 15 tons, and it could carry it’s own weight!
3. The F-35C is the Navy’s very first stealth jet.
>> I am unsure if the Navy really cares. Stealth is problematic at best, as an Air Force F-117 driver learned the hard way in the Balkans. It can usually be defeated by an astute radar tech with a good understanding of his own system. Anti-Radiation missiles are a far more effective and cost efficient way to deal with hostile radars. The Navy took delivery on Block 1 HARM in the 1980s. One of those missiles survived a decade and 100,000 carrier launches and recoveries before it was used. It finally detonated within 5 meters of the hostile emitter on which it was finally unleashed.
4. 300,000 individual parts make up the F-35…
>> I fail to see how this is a positive statement. Seems unnecessarily complicated to me. Part count must be contributing to the weight problem as well.
5. Every pilot receives a custom-fitted helmet which allows them to see through the jet.
>> So, if that technology is unique to the F-35 L-M just wasted millions of taxpayer money, because it should be a modular system retrofittable to any platform with appropriate sensors.