F-35 Joint Strike Fighter News, Videos and pics Thread

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
found the source for you:
captioned:

an automatic translation:
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from what I've now figured in Twitter, she became popular in Japanese cartoons to the point of currently being offered as
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1/700 DDV192 空母いぶき

1/700 AIRCRAFT CARRIER DDV192 IBUKI
2018年5月26日(土)ごろ発売

4,212円(本体価格3,900円)
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actually the source is not the video. The source was a Japanese graphic novel called Kubo Ibuki. That model is of the DDV192 JSDF Ibuki the namesake of the Novel. That was inspired by early reports of the JSMDF ( or is it JMSDF?) Were building Destroyer flattops that could potentially deck F35Bs. It was written by Osamu Eya and Kaiji Kawaguchi and was launched back in 2014.
Kawaguchi is a bit of a Japanese Tom Clancy... If Tom Clancy wrote comics. The Japanese are infact making a live action movie based off it.
His previous titles include Eagle, the plot being that the Democrats (as in U.S. DNC) decide to nominate a American of Japanese decent for POTUS, Zipang, where a modern Japnese AEGIS class destroyer is dropped into the second world war (plot similar to an 1980 American film The Final Countdown where the Nimitz carrier group finds its self days before the attack on Pearl Harbor)
And The Silent Service, where a Joint American Japanese SSN is given to the Really wrong captain and basically starts world war III by bluffing the world to think the SSN has Nuclear torpedoes, and sinking the Enterprise And Carl Vincent.
 

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
should be distinguished from reality
Accordingly, which is why I don't favor that image. You cannot take this.
DDH-183_いずも_(11).jpg
And make it this.
DDV192JSIbuki.jpeg
It's longer and requires more than bolting on a ramp.
But you can operate Izumo class with F35B. And the SDF. Is buying them for Izumo and her sister. That is a reality.
 
... F35B. And the SDF. Is buying them for Izumo and her sister. That is a reality.
one of the things I've learned from Jeff is to wait for an official announcement AND don't take seriously journalists' spin (based on their 'unnamed sources', 'understanding' etc.);

in other words, what matters is what an Admiral; General; Minister; President etc. exactly said (this still might not become true anyway!), and it doesn't matter what journalists made it sound;

in the present case, Japanese officials were vague Friday at 4:48 PM
an interesting play of words inside
Japan to add ‘effective aircraft carriers’ to defense policy
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if I didn't miss anything, if something didn't get lost in translation, or what ever
 
Thursday at 7:16 PM
Nov 17, 2018
and
Turkey’s F-35 Role at Risk If It Buys From Russia, Pentagon Warns
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    • Clash is over plans to buy Russian S-400 anti-aircraft system
    • Unclassified summary of classified report sent to Congress
while now
No ‘devastating impact’ to F-35 industrial base if Turkey removed from program, says US Air Force official
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A potential decision by the United States
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over its purchase of the Russian S-400 missile system may have only minimal impact on the fighter jet’s industrial base, a senior U.s. Air Force official said Tuesday.

President Donald Trump has yet to determine what steps the Defense Department may take if Turkey moves forward with the S-400 buy. However,
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, said Pentagon analysis shows there won’t be a catastrophe if Turkey is forced from the program.

“While it will have some impact on the F-35 program, I don’t think it’s going to be any type of devastating impact if … there’s a policy decision that they are no longer a partner,” Grant told reporters in a Dec. 4 roundtable interview just weeks before she puts a cap on a
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.

On Jan. 7, Grant will take over as head of the Defense Technology Security Administration, the Defense Department’s lead agency for ensuring that sales of weapon systems to foreign nations will not endanger U.S. technological advantages. As director of DTSA, Grant said she expects to play “an even more active role” on the question of whether to export the F-35 to Turkey.

Some lawmakers are concerned that — should Ankara move forward with its purchase of the S-400 — Russia could build back doors into the anti-aircraft system that allows it to glean classified information about NATO capabilities like the F-35.

In its most recent defense policy bill, Congress included language that prohibits Turkey from taking hold of its F-35s until the Pentagon delivered on Turkey’s role in the program and potential risks posed by a Turkish S-400.

The unclassified summary of the report, obtained last week by Bloomberg, restated that Turkey may face expulsion from the F-35 program if the S-400 deal goes through.

That outcome could influence the U.S. government’s relationship with other partner nations that have also signed on to buy the S-400, such as India or Qatar.

Turkey is set to buy 100 Joint Strike Fighters over the course of the program, and its first F-35 pilots have already begun training alongside U.S. pilots at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona. Turkish companies play a key industrial role in the program as one of the producers of the center fuselage and the maker of the cockpit display.

Grant said she was unaware how long it would take to replace Turkey’s contributions to the F-35 program or what proposed solutions the Trump administration is offering to the country.

But she fears it may be too late at this point to persuade the Turkish government to abandon the S-400 deal.

“It is what it is at this point. If they’ve made up their mind already, they’re a sovereign nation — to buy another country’s system, we’re going to have to work through those policy issues,” she said. “But what I’d like to do when I get over there [to DTSA] is [figure out] how do we avoid even getting to that point and make sure that U.S. is the partner of choice.

"Did we do enough work up front to try to prevent it? I know a lot of work was done, but I think there's been a lot of learning from this on the risks of not being the partner of choice."

Turkish officials have remained adamant that the country will buy the S-400. In October, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar
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and said that Turkey may receive the S-400 as early as fall 2019.

Despite political friction between the United States and Turkey, the relationship between the countries’ militaries continues to be solid, Grant said.

“Like any country, we’re going to have what I consider policy ups and downs, leadership changes at the political level that can change a relationship. But as far as the mil-to-mil relationship right now, it remains strong. They’ve been an F-35 partner since 2002, and a significant industrial-base [partner].”
 

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Tokyo plans to replace 99 of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s (JASDF’s) 201 Boeing (Mitsubishi) F-15J/DJ Eagle multirole combat aircraft with F-35A and F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters, Jane’s has learned.

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The plan was confirmed by former defence minister Itsunori Onodera, who said during a 5 December meeting of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Tokyo, “We concluded that it is preferable to replace 99 F-15 fighters [pre-MSIP], which cannot be modernised, with F35s.”

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Oct 5, 2018
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oh reallyit's
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and now
F-35 starts Initial Operational Test and Evaluation
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  • 06 December, 2018
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II has started Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) under supervision of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E).

The IOT&E process will measure the effectiveness, suitability, lethality, survivability and overall mission capability of the aircraft, says the F-35 Joint Program Office. Through late summer 2019, all three variants of the F-35 will be field tested under realistic combat conditions for the purposes of determining the stealth fighter’s operational effectiveness and suitability for combat.

The Joint Strike Fighter Operational Test Team began some pre-IOT&E events such as cold weather operations, weapons demonstrations, suitability deployments and lower threat missions earlier in 2018, says the Joint Program Office. Formal IOT&E is intended to test the system and identify areas for improvements.

“The F-35 enterprise will work together to understand and holistically address any findings,” says the Joint Program Office. “Following the evaluation and the DOT&E report provided to Congress, the US Government will have data to inform its ‘Milestone C’ decision, leading to formal entry into full rate production.”

Ultimately, the Pentagon aims to buy some 2,456 copies of the F-35. However, IOT&E must be completed before the Department of Defense is legally allowed to start full-rate production to acquire the F-35 in large batches. Once started, full-rate production would guarantee multi-year orders to Lockheed Martin, which then could pass back a bulk discount to the US government.

Apparently in anticipation of successfully completing IOT&E, Lockheed Martin in November won a $22.7 billion contract from the Joint Program Office to supply 255 F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters for the three branches of the US armed services and international operators. The deal covers production into 2023.

There are already more than 340 F-35s operating from 15 bases around the world, for the US military branches and international partner nations. And the US Marine Corps’ F-35B made its combat debut in Afghanistan in September.
 
Yesterday at 8:13 AM
Oct 5, 2018
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F-35 starts Initial Operational Test and Evaluation
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  • 06 December, 2018
related:
After a couple months delay, the F-35 moves into operational tests
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The F-35
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, paving the way for a full rate production decision next year, the program office announced Dec. 6.

During initial operational test and evaluation, also known as IOT&E, the Joint Strike Fighter Operational Test Team will put the aircraft through its paces to “identify areas for improvement in the most stressing operationally representative environments,” the F-35 joint program office said in a statement.

The Pentagon’s independent weapons tester — Robert Behler, director of operational test and evaluation (DOT&E) — will oversee the effort and provide feedback to congressional and department leaders.

“The start of formal operational testing is a milestone more than 18 years in the making,” Vice Adm. Mat Winter, F-35 program executive officer, said in a statement.

“It is the culmination of years of hard work and dedication from the joint government and industry team who completed the most comprehensive, rigorous and the safest developmental flight test program in aviation history. While aircraft are in operational test, the F-35 Joint Program Office will continue to support the delivery of phased capability improvements and modernization of the air system.”

Earlier this year, the program began “pre-IOT&E” tests that included assessments of cold weather operations, suitability deployment, weapons demos and low-threat missions conducted by two-ship teams. However, the F-35’s entry formal entry into IOT&E comes several months later than the program office had hoped — and,
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, 16 months behind the test plan the program put forward in 2012.

In August, Behler pushed the start date from September to November, to allow for the delivery of the jet’s newest software, a version of the 3F software known as 30R02. Behler believed that this version would better support complex missions and fix technical issues that could keep the jet from interfacing properly with the Air-to-Air Range Infrastructure system, which allows for range-based testing and training.

Then in October, the program office
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to conduct fuel tube inspections in the wake of an F-35B crash. Most jets were returned to flight within days after maintainers confirmed that tubes were not faulty, but aircraft with suspect tubes needed to have replacements installed.

At the time, the JPO expressed confidence that it could still begin IOT&E in November.

However, 17 of the 23 aircraft picked for IOT&E flight tests were found to have faulty tubes, stated a JOTT memo obtained by Defense News. That factor — along with a separate round of inspections that were authorized for some jets later in October — may have contributed to the program missing its revised start date on Nov. 13.

Even with a schedule delay of almost three months, the Pentagon’s current goal is to finish IOT&E by the end of summer 2019. However, a September 2018 presentation by F-35 test director Air Force Col. Varun Puri states that the test period could run into September 2019.

In a statement, F-35 manufacturer Lockheed Martin said the decision to move to IOT&E shows the aircraft’s progress as it moves out of the development phase and toward full rate production.

“With more than 340 F-35s operating from 15 bases around the world and delivering exceptional capabilities to the warfighter, we are confident in the F-35 weapon systems’ operational performance, capability and suitability today and for decades to come,” the company said. “The Department of Defense serves as the lead for the formal F-35 Initial Operational Test and Evaluation, and we look forward to providing our full support.”
 
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