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

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ADA/IN have already started the process of automating the take off and landing process on carriers, starting with the N-LCA. Automation would make the F-35 a lot more safer.
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The US Navy has largely automated the carrier landing process already...and has been doing so for many years.

The article above talks a little about one of those programs that the US Navy continues to work on, the delta flight path program, which helps automate the approach and automatically adjusts the plane's trajectory seconds before the aircraft touches down on deck.

There is no one in the world that has the experience or the in place programs and equipment to bring those aircraft safely onto the carrier deck like the US Navy has. And understandably so. The US Navy has been operating more than ten super CATOBAR carriers all over the world for the last 55 and more years. The investment in men and aircraft demands it.

I expect India will be working as closely as possible with the US Navy to adopt as many of those processes/equipment, which the US Navy already has in service and deployed on its nuclear aircraft carriers, as they can for their future CATOBAR carriers.
 
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I expect India will be working as closely as possible with the US Navy to adopt as many of those processes/equipment, which the US Navy already has in service and deployed on its nuclear aircraft carriers, as they can for their future CATOBAR carriers.
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It appears the Pentagon and US shipbuilders will be involved in the new carrier program for India, especially for the landing and take off requirement.
 
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Naval Today said:
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. is being awarded a $35,6 million delivery order to complete a Joint Strike Missile (JSM) risk reduction and integration study of the F-35 Air System for the Government of Norway.

The objectives of the study are to further mature JSM weapon design and to ensure compatibility of the weapon with the F-35.

Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas (50 percent) and Kongsberg, Norway (50 percent), and is expected to be completed in March 2018.

International partner funds in the amount of $10 million are being obligated on this award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
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This is good news. I expect that the JSM will be an excellent weapon for the JSF. I hope other nations pick it up as well in NATO and elsewhere...including the US.
 
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Jeff Head said:
The US Navy has largely automated the carrier landing process already...and has been doing so for many years.

The article above talks a little about one of those programs that the US Navy continues to work on, the delta flight path program, which helps automate the approach and automatically adjusts the plane's trajectory seconds before the aircraft touches down on deck.

There is no one in the world that has the experience or the in place programs and equipment to bring those aircraft safely onto the carrier deck like the US Navy has. And understandably so. The US Navy has been operating more than ten super CATOBAR carriers all over the world for the last 55 and more years. The investment in men and aircraft demands it.

I expect India will be working as closely as possible with the US Navy to adopt as many of those processes/equipment, which the US Navy already has in service and deployed on its nuclear aircraft carriers, as they can for their future CATOBAR carriers.
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Yes, the F-35C is by far the easiest fighter aircraft to bring aboard ship, with the FCS making corrections in glide path control, via an automated flap manipulation in order to make the whole process as seamless as possible, and though I am completely opposed to taking the pilot out the cockpit, I am all for helping the pilot manage the aircraft, particularly in the landing and weapons delivery phase of flight!
 
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Jeff Head said:
That is a completely false extrapolation of events IMHO, shen.

The US Navy is indeed cutting back in F-35C purchased over the next four years, from 54 to 38...(which is adding to the 26 aircraft already purchased from LRIP 4 through LRIP 8 in 2014). But all of that is budget driven...NOT because they do not like the aircraft.

If we get a more conscientious, better financial group in the U.S. White House afgter the 2016 election, I expect to see budgetary issues for the nation as a whole and the defense department get much better within a couple of years. But that has not happened yet and there are budgetary issues.

Your second article about the 6th gen fighter falls into a similar category.

Just because the Navy leadership is making statements now about the future 6th gen Navy aircraft...particularly those appointed by this administration...about the 6th gen aircraft, this does not mean that that program will resemble what they say at this stage, 15-20 years before the aircraft comes out. Again, particularly with this administration.

Either way, that statement about the 6th gen fighter does not bear at all on the Navy's commitment to, or ultimate purchase of the F-35C.

Between the US Marines and the US Navy the plans to purchase a total pof 340 F-35Cs remains solid. I have seen nothing to indicate that the US Navy numbers have dropped, or at this early stage that the F-35C is "not liked," by the US Navy. To the contrary, the F-35C tests have gone better than expected to date.

As an example, the Navy times wrote the following. You should read it:


The fact is, to date, the F-35C is performing better than expected and the pilots, Landignig Officers, evaluators, and deck handlers like it. Not a shred of "The USN doesn't seems like F-35C much." Not at all.

With the goal to stand up the first operational squadron of ten aircraft in 2018, the current reduction of aircraft from 54 to 38 new aircraft is expected to have no impact on that goal. In the time frame of standing up that first squadron, the US Navy will have a total of 26 new aircraft (the 38 minus the 12 to be purchased in 2019) + 26 existing aircraft (already in purchased), or a total of 52 F-35Cs.
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Jeff Head

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Is the CNO a political appointee?
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The CNO is a member of the Joint chiefs of Staff and is the senior military officer of the US Navy. The position is a four-star admiral and reports to the Secretary of the Navy for the command, utilization of resources, and operating efficiency of the operating forces of the Navy and of the Navy shore activities assigned by the Secretary, but it also under the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

All of the Joint Chiefs are appointed by the siting President and must be confirmed by the Senate.

So, they are military officers, who have climbed a very long ladder...but they are also political appointees by the existing administration who give information and advise to the Commander in Chief so he can make decisions. They rarely deviate very far from the direction that the sitting President wants taken.
 
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Naval Today said:
The first British squadron has begun operational testing of the Royal Navy’s fifth generation strike fighters destined for the nation’s new aircraft carriers.

17 (Reserve) Squadron, which comprises both Royal Navy and RAF pilots and engineers, was officially stood up at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

The squadron, which was first formed in 1915, will be responsible for all the testing and evaluation of the UK’s first F-35B Lightning II aircraft, known as BK-1.

PO Gary Lister, who is responsible for maintaining the ejection seats and crew escape system as well as managing the weapons on the aircraft, said:

"The F-35 has a myriad of sensors and technologies which means every aspect of the aircraft is constantly being tested.

This means when snags are found, they aren’t just fixed, but analysed and scrutinised to help future fault diagnosis and streamline the maintenance effort; it’s a hugely complex aircraft which will give both the navy and the RAF a superb capability."

The squadron will move to RAF Marham in Norfolk in 2018 and become 617 Squadron.

The second F-35B squadron will bear the name 809 NAS and both squadrons will fly from the HMS Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales carriers.

The UK has taken delivery of three F-35B jets to date, which are based at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, Edwards Air Force Base in California and Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort in South Carolina.
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...and the beat goes on.

The Royal Navy's fourth aircraft is slated for delivery next year, followed by ten more currently on order. Ultimately, the UK plans at least 48 aircraft.
 
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