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Default Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can't Dogfight

It was made under contract by B-52 designers. Expect a SS jet and
you use fighter jet designers or have better design plans and specs.

It is all in the specs. Build to this: and they did.

Martin

On 10/7/2015 1:16 AM, John B. wrote:
On Tue, 06 Oct 2015 19:06:26 -0500, F. George McDuffee
wrote:

On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 21:59:03 -0700 (PDT), jon_banquer
wrote:

On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 9:40:49 PM UTC-7, SteamboatEd Haas wrote:
Well the good news is unmanned fighters *can* dogfight and much better at that as the g load restrictions for human pilots are gone. F-35 is nothing more than pork.

The amount of money US tax payers are going to lose on this lemon will make the Iraq war look like small change. I'm voting for Bernie Sanders for a reason.

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IIUC much of the problems can be traced back to the idea
that it is possible to design a "fighter" which can do
everything well. The F-111 should have been a learning
experience, but apparently everyone involved with that
fiasco has now retired.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genera...F-111_Aardvark


I was assigned to the FB-111 test program at Edwards AFB and the
pilots were quite enthusiastic about the airplane itself - hands off,
supersonic, from Edwards AFB in California to Eglin AFB, Florida. More
acceleration and faster top speed than an F-4.

SAC, on the other hand was less thrilled and the "out of the corner of
the mouth" comments were made that "we set out to buy a race horse and
ended up with a mule". Maintenance was a nightmare and the Australians
went home part way through the test program after testing a 20mm mini
gun mounted in the bomb bay and blew the bomb bay doors off due to a
combination of ram air and gas from the gun breeches and no vents in
the bomb bay.

On the other hand, the Egress guys were quite happy as all ejections
to date had been successful ( a total of 1 ejection at that time.)

The Navy, apparently being better dancers then the Air Force,
pirouetted right off the stage as their calculations for "wind over
the deck" showed that the F-111 couldn't operate off any existing
carrier.

According to our detachment commander, who reported directly to the
"Commander, Plans" at SAC, there was much muttering about "where is
this thing being made?" and "where does the President come from?"
--
cheers,

John B.

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