by Coordinated fires » Wed Dec 13, 2017 6:49 pm
On a positive note. Has anyone been reading up on the new data that has been made public about F-35 Lightning after the last Red Flag exercises? I've been skeptical of the jet for a long time, but I'm starting to understand why the thing costs so much. Let's just say, I would NOT want to be an inexperienced, 20 year old PLAAF flight crew trying to figure out how in the hell to kill a F-35-Networked sensor enabled air wing of F-22s and other missile trucks using the F-35 as a flying data hub. And apparently, from what we know now...the thing can actually turn, after all! In fact it turns real good. And it can kill targets with missiles no matter where the nose is pointed, so it can be flying away on full afterburner and killing targets behind it while sending passive data to all the other aircraft. Nothing else in the world does that, not even the j-20.
On a positive note. Has anyone been reading up on the new data that has been made public about F-35 Lightning after the last Red Flag exercises? I've been skeptical of the jet for a long time, but I'm starting to understand why the thing costs so much. Let's just say, I would NOT want to be an inexperienced, 20 year old PLAAF flight crew trying to figure out how in the hell to kill a F-35-Networked sensor enabled air wing of F-22s and other missile trucks using the F-35 as a flying data hub. And apparently, from what we know now...the thing can actually turn, after all! In fact it turns real good. And it can kill targets with missiles no matter where the nose is pointed, so it can be flying away on full afterburner and killing targets behind it while sending passive data to all the other aircraft. Nothing else in the world does that, not even the j-20.