Joint Strike Fighter acing tests, pilots report

[Chogy]

A good article describing the F-35 in its development process:

F-35 Article from "Air Force Times"

The F-35 is getting a thumbs-up from the test pilots flying it.

Both military and civilian aviators give the Joint Strike Fighter high marks on speed, altitude and vertical takeoffs and landings, as well as for its avionics.

‘A’ FOR AVIONICS
The F-35’s mission systems are even more advanced than its flight characteristics, according to the test pilots.

“To me, the headlines aren’t how fast it goes and how many G’s it pulls, it’s how great that radar is and how great the [Electro-Optical Targeting System] and the [Distributed Aperture System] and the situational awareness that you get over [the Multifunction Advanced Data Link] and all those sort of features in the airplane,” Long said.

“I would just comment that the performance of the sensors at this early phase in a program is unlike any I’ve ever been part of,” Taylor said. “The fact that they work as well as they do and are as close to being ready to go to combat today is really impressive. I expect it to hold a lot of promise for how the airplane is going to be when it’s fielded.”

 

[blackops]

Sir any idea how many of them would be produced

 

[Whiplash]

According to me, if the JSF EOTS and DAS actually are what they're made up to be, then this is a better fighter than the F22. And god help us considering USA and its allies plan to build over 3,000 of them. Not that I am an America-phobe, I just don't like the idea of a unipolar world. Lokheed has offered this bird to the Indian Navy, but with US equipment being sanction prone and all that other shizz, I doubt we're gonna take it. Although on another forum I had read that the JSF partners will not receive the same avionics compliment as the USA. Chogy, could you confirm if this is true? And if so, will they also be denied DAD and EOTS?

 

[nomi007]

round abut 12 jets already be produced
this i read in an article

 

[anon45]

According to me, if the JSF EOTS and DAS actually are what they're made up to be, then this is a better fighter than the F22. And god help us considering USA and its allies plan to build over 3,000 of them. Not that I am an America-phobe, I just don't like the idea of a unipolar world. Lokheed has offered this bird to the Indian Navy, but with US equipment being sanction prone and all that other shizz, I doubt we're gonna take it. Although on another forum I had read that the JSF partners will not receive the same avionics compliment as the USA. Chogy, could you confirm if this is true? And if so, will they also be denied DAD and EOTS?

It has long been said that the F-35 is better than the F-22 in important aspects, such as sensor integration, communication, EW, etc.

Basically the gist of it as I understand it is the F-22 brings a superior capability to the table, the F-35 creates a superior table.

 

[Chogy]

The number to be produced seems to vary with the source, but as it is to replace the F-16, FA-18, in the U.S. forces, the number will probably be large. But people need to remember this is not purely an American product, it is the result of vast collaboration and funding from the nations who joined the coalition to make this jet. It will be exported in large numbers.

In the future, it will be as common as the F-16 is today.

It is slow to develop, it is expensive, but I think it will be an immensely capable fighter.

Although on another forum I had read that the JSF partners will not receive the same avionics compliment as the USA. Chogy, could you confirm if this is true? And if so, will they also be denied DAD and EOTS?

I can't speak conclusively on this. We do not export the F-22 technology, and there may be elements on the U.S. F-35 that would go only to perhaps U.K., Australia, maybe Japan? We (the U.S.) need to keep a few things pocketed away. But that may change. Right now, the most advanced F-16's in the world are not operated by the USAF, but by customer nations. And no, there's no "turn off code" in them.

 

[Chogy]

Beautiful pic of the production F-35. I like the charcoal gray color...

 

[gowthamraj]

^ is this plane have the same turn rate and meanuver that f-16 has

 

[SQ8]

This should be of some help