Dogfight : F35 vs F16

[icepac]

The problem with american air power goes far deeper than a single plane.

[GScholz]

First video I've seen of the F35 cranking on some Gs at low altitude in an "air show" mode.  All the other vids I've ever seen other than a few early test vids are of the US pilots treating it in a docile manner.  Try to ignore the euro-mmpssh mmmpsssh techno music.  F35s start flying a couple minutes in or so.

Looking good 

[Gman]

I thought so too Gscholz, for as much as you can tell from a few turns in one vid.

[GScholz]

Another video from the F-35 debut at Luchtmachtdagen airshow in the Netherlands. Some nice closeups, and a view of the F-35s going transonic at low level. Also no techno music.

[GScholz]

Transonic flight at almost sea level in a high-G turn without afterburner. That jet engine has some serious thrust!

[Squire]

Interesting topic:

Not pointing the finger solely at the USAF but also their political masters and those on the industrial end of things:

https://www.amazon.com/Grounded-Abolishing-Studies-Conflict-Diplomacy/dp/0813165571

[jollyFE]

This thing flies almost every day where I work, and I have talked to many many pilots both contractor and mil and they said on several different occasions that once the "minor problems" get straightened out this thing will be a monster.  Any new acft has problems, the newer and higher the tech the more problems.  The plane I work with has been in development since 98 and we still see new problems.

[GScholz]

This thing flies almost every day where I work, and I have talked to many many pilots both contractor and mil and they said on several different occasions that once the "minor problems" get straightened out this thing will be a monster.  Any new acft has problems, the newer and higher the tech the more problems.  The plane I work with has been in development since 98 and we still see new problems.

 

[GScholz]

RAF F-35Bs depart from Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort for their long Atlantic crossing to Farnborough, England... I'm looking forward to watching their display there.

[Vraciu]

231 sorties to drop 16 bombs.  Derp.

http://ericpalmerblog.blogspot.com.ng/2016/06/usaf-does-america-great-dis-service.html

[GScholz]

Who is Eric Palmer and why should I read a single word on his blog?

[Vraciu]

Who is Eric Palmer and why should I read a single word on his blog?

Someone who knows a heck of a lot more about the F-35 than you appear to, my friend.     


Educate yourself.   

[icepac]

Apparently, what the F35 lacks is a proper adversary within our own armed forces.

[GScholz]

Someone who knows a heck of a lot more about the F-35...

I doubt that very much. Clearly a conspiracy theorist blog.

[Vraciu]

I doubt that very much. Clearly a conspiracy theorist blog.

Hahahahaha uh....no. 


The F-35 will never be competitive against modern threats.   The sooner you accept this fact the better.