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These 343 aircraft are limited both in terms of operational capabilities and of the weapons they can use. They are, and will remain, obsolete because their software is incomplete and because their sensors – designed over 20 years ago – have been overtaken by several generations electronics progress.
If it doesn’t – and the GAO reported on June 5 that “As of January 2018, the F-35 program had 966 open deficiencies, of which 111 category 1 (critical)” – then all bets are off, and the program will have to undergo a major restructuring.
-- a new Panoramic Cockpit Display System (PCDS) made by Elbit Systems of America. In June 2017, Elbit announced a contract from Lockheed Martin to develop a panoramic cockpit display unit to replace the current one, made by L3 Aviation Products.
Yeah not sure I buy that, my friend.
The things they list as category 1 critical can be a measly as a screw holding a cover on a switch being a little loose. It's ridiculous yet the still list is critical because that's aviation for you. That's why that number is so high. It includes all the little so-so ordinary things you would find in any other aircraft.
Even with the current panoramic display, there isn't a single other aircraft that has a cockpit layout as sweet and as state of the art like this. So it's already waaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of anything else out there ATM. The fact that there is not HUD since the HMDS takes it place is already revolutionary.
I think calling it "obsolete" is a tad bit ridiculous TBH. Makes you wonder why everyone is lining up to order this bad larry, then, if it's so obsolete?! lol
And the article is making the point that the export customers haven't even allocated money for the Block 4 upgrades. Only 117 of the 460 jets will be Block 4 capable, and the rest will need new allocation for retrofits. So, in the end, it goes back to all the financial problems associated with the program.
Brazil's Gripen E:
But to call it obsolete? That's the problem with the bashers of this aircraft is that they'll go overboard because they really have an agenda, or just don't like the fact that this aircraft has essentially monopolized many markets. I think most are aware that even without its full, operational capabilities (even if there is merit to that) it still should dominate the skies and people just don't like that. I still think it's a lumbering wild boar compared to the Su-57 or Rafale, but to call it obsolete is simply crazy.
No comparison. Huge difference between a single flat screen with a HUD and many more command buttons and switches and display units and an all in one-function panoramic display with HMDS. Look at the simplicity of the rest of the cockpit. Crazy.
Also, the Grippen is hardly ergonomically designed with the center stick and throttle control on the right like that, compared to the most comfortable design of the stick on the right and throttle on the left. The F-16 revolutionized that concept that makes it much less tiring for pilots in that configuration. There's no arms criss-crossing one another.
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F-22s of the USAF train at Ørland Air Station with F-35s of the RNoAF during a mock dogfighting exercise.
Kinda like comparing Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters (Miss Universe) to Adriana Lima. Neither one you would kick out of bed.no Offense to the fans of F-35 but compared to F-22 Raptor , F-35 looks fat and ugly .
Kinda like comparing Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters (Miss Universe) to Adriana Lima. Neither one you would kick out of bed.
The F-22 have been described as an 'antenna farm' because there are many small antenna arrays in various locations over the body. Whether they are active/passive or passive only is a matter of software based usage, meaning their utilities can be managed and upgrade via software.Sir , if i am not wrong you once said in some thread about F-22 that its entire body works as a Radar , is that true or false ? if yes than what makes F-22 body work as a Radar ? sorry if that question is stupid