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Poslao: 04 Jun 2014 10:11
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Australia’s defense chiefs confirmed Abbot wants F-35Bs for LHDs
Citat:During a Senate hearing on Jun. 2, Australia’s defense chiefs confirmed that Prime Minister Tony Abbott had asked them to look into fielding the F-35B on Australia’s two LHDs.
Senators were told the task won’t be easy as the ships have not been built with fixed-wing aircraft in mind and major modifications are needed.
 http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-n.....39gl0.html
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Registruj se da bi učestvovao u diskusiji. Registrovanim korisnicima se NE prikazuju reklame unutar poruka.
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Poslao: 05 Jun 2014 08:04
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Портал USNI News с ссылкой на представителей корпорации LM сообщает, что палубные испытания F-35C на авианосце CVN-68 "Nimitz" планируется провести в середине октября, ориентировочно с 12 октября по 3 ноября.
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Poslao: 10 Jun 2014 17:07
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Sweetman se ne slaze sa izjavama generala Majka..
Citat:That aside, we should remember that Hostage ruffled a few feathers with a quote earlier this year:
If I do not keep that F-22 fleet viable, the F-35 fleet frankly will be irrelevant. The F-35 is not built as an air superiority platform. It needs the F-22.
That was not exactly a ringing endorsement of the F-35, particularly for customers who had been assured that F-35 was, no kidding, a dominant air-superiority platform (as the Australians were, in sworn testimony to Parliament). So, particularly with Canada's government ready to announce another sole-source decision to buy JSF without a competition that would provide a full view of alternative fighters, it is good news for the program if Hostage talks over his previous statement.
In the new interview, Hostage talks up the F-35’s stealth and expressly takes issue with the Boeing/Navy picture of the F-35 requiring first-day support from the EA-18G Growler or other electronic warfare assets.
“In the first moments of a conflict I’m not sending Growlers or F-16s or F-15Es anywhere close to that environment, so now I’m going to have to put my fifth gen in there and that’s where that radar cross-section and the exchange of the kill chain is so critical. You’re not going to get a Growler close up to help in the first hours and days of the conflict, so I’m going to be relying on that stealth to open the door.”
However, note that Hostage is not saying that F-35s will go in unsupported: they will use numbers for mutual support:
“I’m going to have some F-35s doing air superiority, some doing those early phases of persistent attack, opening the holes, and again, the F-35 is not compelling unless it’s there in numbers,” the general says. “Because it can’t turn and run away, it’s got to have support from other F-35s. So I’m going to need eight F-35s to go after a target that I might only need two (F-22) Raptors to go after. But the F-35s can be equally or more effective against that site than the Raptor can because of the synergistic effects of the platform.”
The words “that site” imply that Hostage is talking about destruction of enemy air defenses (DEAD) rather than air superiority alone – where the F-22’s speed and larger missile load could be expected to yield an advantage over the F-35. But a four-to-one advantage for the F-22 in DEAD, which is one of the JSF’s prime design missions, is unfavourable in terms of cost-effectiveness: according to a 2008 RAND study of continuing production of the F-22 (at 30 or fewer per year) and the most optimistic F-35 numbers from Lockheed Martin (at 150-plus per year), the F-22 at worst costs twice as much as the F-35.
http://aviationweek.com/blog/f-35-stealthier-f-22
Kao i nadalje da je odjednom F-35 vise stelt od F-22 sto bas i nema smisla...
Boing/mornarica su u pravu za buduce koriscenje Growlera kao elektronske podrske, ne samo za F-35 nego za sve ostale.
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Poslao: 15 Jun 2014 13:15
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F-35 Stable, but Software Potential Long-Term Issue
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140613/DEFREG.....Term-Issue
Citat:The Pentagon is currently flying software block 2B on test fights, and is starting the process to load block 3I — essentially, the same software with better hardware – onto test flights. The situation is slightly different with the 3F block of software, which will deliver the greatest capabilities for the plane and is expected in the 2018 time frame.
“Our belief is that we're about six months behind in software development there,” US Air Force Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, the head of the F-35 program office, said during Thursday conference call about the fifth-generation fighter.
Citat:The biggest challenge with 3F is the “fusion” of data, Frank Kendall, DoD undersecretary for acquisition, said.
“It's merging of information from different sensor systems on the aircraft and off the aircraft, information that comes from other airplanes that's transmitted to the F-35 and then merged with its own information,” he said.
“That's a difficult processing problem, it's a difficult computational problem,” Kendall continued. “And just going through all the tests and getting the different aircraft that might need to be in a test together so that you can pull all the test off is challenging. And that's where the scheduling backup comes in.”
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Poslao: 15 Jun 2014 22:22
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Ameri prizemljili celu flotu F-35 JSF zbog curenja goriva
Citat:The Pentagon temporarily grounded the entire F-35 Joint Strike Fighter fleet at the start of the weekend after one of the advanced jets suffered an engine oil leak and declared an in-flight emergency.
While the suspension of flight and ground testing on Friday was described by F-35 program officials as a precautionary move, it is the second time in 16 months that engine problems have grounded the entire fleet. It comes just two weeks before the plane is due to make its first international appearance.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/f-35-fighter-jets-t.....1402854181
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Poslao: 18 Jun 2014 10:14
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Lockheed F-35 bulkhead cracs solution proposed, Pentagon says
Citat:Lockheed Martin Corp. and the Pentagon say a fix has been found that should prevent more bulkhead (zabranjeno)s on the Marine Corps version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the costliest U.S. weapons program.
On-the-ground stress testing may resume as soon as Sept. 30, officials said. It was suspended this past September after inspections found (zabranjeno)s in three of six bulkheads on a plane used for such tests.
The suspension increased scrutiny of the Marines' F-35B, the most complex of three versions because it is intended to take off like a conventional fighter and land like a helicopter. The Lockheed-built plane, which Britain and Italy also are buying, is supposed to be declared combat-ready next year.
http://fwbusinesspress.com/fwbp/article/1/5828/Bre.....-says.aspx
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