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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. --------------------- 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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