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Soon the light guys can pilot a F-35

US Air Force: Removal of F-35 pilot weight restrictions eyed for April

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...and the beat goes on!

There we go, another JSF, F35

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...and the beat goes on!

All F-35 solo pilots are a "two ship" with an instructor in the other bird, F-22 samo, samo! Very sweet easy airplanes to fly, no bad habits, no coffin corners, none of that, and they fly in a very predictable, intuitive, linear manner, both "pilots airplanes",,,, and I would remind that nobody else has flown the T-50 or the J-20??? We got nothing to hide and everything to gain from our customers getting to "know" this airplane.

 

[Air Force Brat]

Soon the light guys can pilot a F-35

US Air Force: Removal of F-35 pilot weight restrictions eyed for April

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"light chicks"! prolly won't affect a single "airman", just a lot of "ballyhoo"!

 

[Jura The idiot]

anyone can explain decrypt in this context:
“Up until about six months ago mission planning was fairly difficult to do day to day because we have to decrypt everything,” Watkins said. Now they can change the data on a mission to mission basis.
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“You get whacked a lot.”

Those are the words of someone who should know, the leader of the aggressor squadron at Red Flag, the man who tries to kill U.S. forces. Lt. Col. Tyler Lewis, commander of the 57th Adversary Tactics Support Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, echoed comments we’ve heard before, that he often had no idea he was going to die until he was declared dead. Why? The

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combination of stealth,

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, cyber and sensors lets them find, target and destroy an enemy plane from beyond visual range.

For example, more fourth generation fighters died in one day than did F-35As during the entire exercise through Feb. 2. It began Jan. 23.

(While working on this, I

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by Capt. Stephanie Anne Fraioli that explains the fundamental difference between a fourth- and a fifth-generation aircraft: “With fourth-generation fighter airframes, speed and energy equaled life and survivability. In the fifth-generation realm, information equals life.”)

Most Red Flag coverage so far has focused on a statistic we’ve all heard. The F-35As at the Air Force’s toughest combat training exercises are killing enemy aircraft at a rate of 15-1. But one of the pilots flying the F-35s — Lt. Col. George Watkins, 34th Fighter Squadron commander — says: “The kill ratio isn’t that important. We are more focused on

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.” Think Russian-made S-300s and 400s.

At this Red Flag, Watkins and Lewis said the Joint Strike Fighter faces the most dangerous IADS threats they’ve ever encountered at an exercise. The plane’s EW suite helps it find the threat, then they can use their stealth and jamming to “get in a lot closer to these threats than anyone else can,” Watkins told reporters. Then they can use their cyberwarfare capabilities, about which no one will talk on the record, and EW to neutralize the IADS. Or they can use a missile or bomb or a combination of all four.

I asked Lewis if his plane had been neutralized or affected by F-35 cyber attacks during this Red Flag. After a long pause, he chuckled and didn’t answer.

Also, the F-35s can gather the threat information and pass it to those less fortunate fourth-generation aircraft or, Watkins told us, “we can use stealth, jamming etcetera to get in a lot closer to these threats than anyone else can get.”

One of the little discussed of the F-35’s effectiveness is mission planning. Capt. Fraioli, whom I quote above, notes that mission planning plays a central role in making stealth (Low Observability to the professionals) effective during a combat mission. “Up until about six months ago mission planning was fairly difficult to do day to day because we have to decrypt everything,” Watkins said. Now they can change the data on a mission to mission basis. He also noted that the F-35As flying at Nellis had flown “126 missions without losing a single flight to maintenance” during this Red Flag.

On Tuesday we’ll be getting another shot

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to discuss the exercises, which ended today.

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anyone can explain decrypt in this context:
“Up until about six months ago mission planning was fairly difficult to do day to day because we have to decrypt everything,” Watkins said. Now they can change the data on a mission to mission basis.
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It sounds like there was a change in the way mission planning was laid out, where before the planning data would appear in a manner that was difficult to comprehend either encoded or super technical, today it lays it out in a more operator friendly manor. Think of it like the OS on your computer. Every thing today is fairly straightforward but take a trip back a couple decades and simple commands and apps we use daily were impossible.

 

[Jura The idiot]

It sounds like there was a change in the way mission planning was laid out, where before the planning data would appear in a manner that was difficult to comprehend either encoded or super technical, today it lays it out in a more operator friendly manor. Think of it like the OS on your computer. Every thing today is fairly straightforward but take a trip back a couple decades and simple commands and apps we use daily were impossible.

OK perhaps some newspeak, thanks

 

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anyone can explain decrypt in this context:
“Up until about six months ago mission planning was fairly difficult to do day to day because we have to decrypt everything,” Watkins said. Now they can change the data on a mission to mission basis.
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The systems are able to communicate with each other now through link 16 is what he is likely referencing. Before you had to manually enter data and now that legacy aircraft are coming with LINK 16 pods, everybody is able to talk to each other, and the F-35 is able to seamlessly communicate data through link 16.

 

[Jura The idiot]

The systems are able to communicate with each other now through link 16 is what he is likely referencing. Before you had to manually enter data and now that legacy aircraft are coming with LINK 16 pods, everybody is able to talk to each other, and the F-35 is able to seamlessly communicate data through link 16.

thanks for responding, but the Lieutenant colonel Watkins used 'decrypt' together with 'mission planning' in

anyone can explain decrypt in this context:
“Up until about six months ago mission planning was fairly difficult to do day to day because we have to decrypt everything,” Watkins said. Now they can change the data on a mission to mission basis.
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which then sounds to me as 'processing data already gathered' for example flying a scouting mission (for example towards an SAM site) first, coming back, and feeding the coordinates into stand-off weapons; this would now be achieved much faster than previously (previously as in "up until about six months ago" in the above sentence) ... just my wild shot LOL!

 

[Jura The idiot]

Heh! Heh! Heh! we're having fun, ...

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F-35As Score High Marks in First Red Flag

The F-35A strike fighter made an impressive showing at its first Red Flag exercise since the jet was declared combat ready last year, setting the stage for future large-scale exercises and coming deployments.

The 13 fighters from the 388th Fighter Wing and Reserve 419th Fighter Wing from Hill AFB, Utah, participated in Red Flag 17-1 at Nellis AFB, Nev., from Jan. 23-Feb. 10. The jets flew alongside F-22s, B-1Bs, F-15s, F-16s, as well as international jets such as Eurofighters.

The F-35s also flew against red teams, conducting suppression of enemy air defenses and targeting of surface-to-air missile systems missions. This included scenarios where allied “blue” aircraft encountered more than 20 enemy, or “red,” fighters made up of aggressor F-16s and private contractor jets.

The biggest takeaway for F-35 pilots was an increase in situational awareness, said Lt. Col. George Watkins, commander of the 34th Fighter Squadron. Young pilots in debriefings immediately “talked about how much situational awareness they had” in a threat environment, including a “god’s eye view” of the battlespace.

Using data links and sensor fusion, the F-35s were able to quarterback legacy aircraft such as F-16s in large-scale missions. The jet’s enhanced radar, and ability to communicate with legacy aircraft via the Link 16 system, proved valuable during the exercise.

“Situational awareness is king,” said Col. David Lyons, commander of the 388th Fighter Wing. “Everybody’s SA is improved when the F-35 is on the battlefield.”

This, coupled with the low observable technology, “makes us exponentially more survivable,” Watkins said.

While the overall goal of a Red Flag exercise is to practice how aircraft can operate with other aircraft in the same battlespace, the F-35 did score a kill-death ratio better than 15 to 1. F-35s, throughout the exercise, dropped 27 inert weapons with 25 of them scoring direct hits.

Throughout the two week exercise, F-35s flew at a mission capable rate of more than 90 percent and no specific maintenance issue arose, said 1st Lt. Devin Ferguson, with the 388th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. The F-35s were flying hard, and things are going to break, but maintainers were able to fix issues quickly. For example, maintainers saw a generator on one jet fail. Airmen were able to fix it and the jet was flying again within 24 hours, Ferguson said.

“The kind of rates [that] were turned in are enviable for any fleet,” Lyons said, explaining the high capability of the F-35 is comparable or better than other squadrons across the service.

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[Jura The idiot]

"light chicks"! prolly won't affect a single "airman", just a lot of "ballyhoo"!

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