Japan Military News, Reports, Data, etc.

Equation said:

Imagine if this was happening to China J-20 or F/C-31 program you would be ALL over it with questions about inferior design, engine, pilot, and programs

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I leave that to the Media Vultures
Wait for the flight investigation.
What our dear "friend" was doing was was speaking out of both sides of his beak. Telling a experienced member not to let his emotions cloud his judgment then spouting off his own emotional preconceptions.

TerraN_EmpirE said:

That is exactly the type of Vulture crap I was talking about. Thank you for proving to the page as a bad example.

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Trigger much? lolz

That is a record far better than any previous fighter produced in any where near it's numbers of over 350 built.

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and what's the availability rate of these 350 fighters? Please tell us.

TerraN_EmpirE said:

What our dear "friend" was doing was was speaking out of both sides of his beak. Telling a experienced member not to let his emotions cloud his judgment then spouting off his own emotional preconceptions.

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Right... I'm the "emotional" one... you're the one launching ad hominem attacks on anyone who doesn't share your POV.

You're supposed to be the "experienced member" here and yet you're acting like a child right now.

Ok lets all just chill out for now.

Equation said:

Ok lets all just chill out for now.

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done. i got a lot of work to do today anyway.

avalibility rates vary based on national service factors like age of airframes, spare parts, training of repair crews and pilots.
350+ F35 is a world wide number so trying to use that as your basis of Avalibility is impossible. As you will have brand new demo aircraft in the hands of air forces that song yet have the infistucture to maintain them.
You will have users who have a higher Avalibility rate and some with no Avalibility rate.
Much like how an available rate for an older smaller F16A+B fleet will be less than a larger newer one.
The one that matters in this case is the Japanese.

This F35A was a Japanese F35A. It was assembled in Japan by Mitsubishi Heavy industries. Who just declared IOC a few months back and had 13 units until this loss.

I repeat what I have stated and asked all along, it is to early to jump to conclusions of cause or place blame or proclaim that this was the result of a aircraft.

TerraN_EmpirE said:

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Sweet, i'm Paul Newman in this analogy. He's awesome! =)

avalibility rates vary based on national service factors like age of airframes, spare parts, training of repair crews and pilots.
350+ F35 is a world wide number so trying to use that as your basis of Avalibility is impossible. As you will have brand new demo aircraft in the hands of air forces that song yet have the infistucture to maintain them.
You will have users who have a higher Avalibility rate and some with no Avalibility rate.
Much like how an available rate for an older smaller F16A+B fleet will be less than a larger newer one.
The one that matters in this case is the Japanese.

This F35A was a Japanese F35A. It was assembled in Japan by Mitsubishi Heavy industries. Who just declared IOC a few months back and had 13 units until this loss.

I repeat what I have stated and asked all along, it is to early to jump to conclusions of cause or place blame or proclaim that this was the result of a aircraft.

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"The Navy's "Operational" F-35C Is Fully Mission Capable Less Than Five Percent Of The Time: A stunning deficiency in readiness rates for Navy and Marine F-35s calls into question whether the stealth jets can fight a prolonged conflict."
BY JOSEPH TREVITHICK MARCH 20, 2019



p.s. I'm happy to wait for the 2020 report, because I'm fairly certain that one isn't going to be much better, given the historical trend.

As someone who actually worked on military aircraft I can tell you that availability rates an be massaged any way the "Type Commanders" and his/her boss want to. The real rate in my years ago experience is about 50% to 60%. This 80% rate I read about is pure hyperbole in my opinion. No military is going to give anyone 100% truth. Because so much information is classified...More than you all may think...I'm out!

Looking at the other side of the fence, you gotta admit that people are also quick to imply somehow it's related to Japanese assembly, talk about "defection" just because it's an Asian pilot, and that China/Russia will somehow gain from this even though the crash is well in Japan/US controlled waters. Calling it a lemon is not even that bad of an insinuation.