F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

[Fonck83]

Is it the announcement of a revolution in the USAF. These declarations and this new model sign the end of the f-35 as the work horse of the USAF.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/200-ngad-fighters-1000-advanced-drones-in-usafs-future-plans

Franck Kendall AIR FORCE SECRETARY :
Air Force leadership has "recently given our planners a nominal quantity of collaborative combat aircraft to assume for planning purposes. The planning assumption is 1,000 CCAs," Kendall continued. "This figure was derived from an assumed two CCAs for [each of] 200 NGAD platforms, and an additional two for each of 300 F-35s, for a total of 1,000."

Kendall continued by saying that the Air Force would become "unaffordable" if it continued to only buy current generation aircraft like the F-35A and F-15EX, as well as future NGAD combat jets, and that CCAs will offer additional "affordable mass." He added that "if we ask for too much [of the CCAs] we're gonna get bogged down trying to get what we need" and that the drones didn't need to be "gold-plated" to provide important additional operational advantages.

 

[DumbPilot]

This is just a thought:

What if the resolution of the AESA radar emplyed in the F-35 is good enough to find out whether missiles are incoming towards the plane?

If that is so, then that also means that idle T/R modules can focus onto that missile - which means it may be able to actually fry the electronics of an incoming missile, I think the F-35's radar definitely has enough power in it to do that.

 

[MonaLazy]

 

[Super Flanker]

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[DumbPilot]

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[Super Flanker]

That time when F-35s from the Norwegian Airforce intercepted Russian MiG-31s.

 

[Super Flanker]

Got some news regarding F-35's flight hour's from twitter. The F-35 has officially completed more than 378,000+ sorties worldwide, and accumulated more than 634,000+ flight hours!

1. An F-35 assigned to the 63rd Fighter Squadron at Luke Airforce base in Arizona.

2. A U.S. Air Force Airman takes a photo of an F-35 Lightning II assigned to the 56th Fighter Wing at Luke Airforce base in Arizona.

3. A pilot climbing into an F-35 using the F-35's built in telescopic steps.

And they call the F-35 the fat army, but I think it's a beautiful plane.

 

[Super Flanker]

Incase you all want an F-35 pic as wallpaper for your mobile then here are some suggestions from my side.

Incase you want one to use as your PC's desktop background then here is another one.

 

[jai jaganath]

Incase you all want an F-35 pic as wallpaper for your mobile then here are some suggestions from my side.
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What's the 3rd fighter from top

 

[Super Flanker]

What's the 3rd fighter from top

That is not a real plane, it's a fictional plane from AC-7, Ace Combat games have a ton of cool looking fictional futuristic planes. I will let you know which plane it is later on, will have to do some browsing.