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I'm very choosy so I quit reading after I think the second paragraph of The Incredible Shrinking MRE: New Tech Zaps Rations into a Third Their Normal Size

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three smaller lies for the price of one LOL

Oct 30, 2018

Jura said:

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The General Dynamics board of directors has elected James N. Mattis to be a director of the corporation. General Mattis is the Davies Family Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and served as U.S. Secretary of Defense.

Jura said:

aren't specific to the F-35, in fact any suitable aircraft (for instance the F-18) could get them;

since you haven't realized (or pretended not to) said features aren't specific to the F-35,

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Wrong.
a)F-18 would not be able to operate in a modern IADS unlike the F-35 where the targeting data could be transmitted from.
b)F-18 doesn't have the same level of capability as the F-35 in terms of sensor range and fusion
c)It would take seconds for a F-35 to transmit a SAR targeting image where the F-18 will take minutes
d)The F-35 will be able to transmit those data using LPI and LPD features unlike the F-18

Jura said:

I pointed this out to you in a hyperbole Yesterday at 11:03 PM (you didn't notice my reference to the 19th century was a hyperbole, no?)

now Brumby jumped into the end (for me) of this conversation OK it began

Yesterday at 6:43 PM

with the chunk boasting about the F-35:

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You are completely mission the point about the objectives of the test.

The first was to take an independent system and in this case the F-35 to provide targeting data to another shooter as part of the Army's IBCS architecture. Essentially it is about testing communications between federated systems.. Secondly it was to test the multi node gateway architecture of the IBCS which primarily is to pull together multi systems to operate as a networked sensor shooter complex.


In this test, the F-35 transmitted the data (I believe via MADL) to a F-35 ground station (which would need a MADL antenna) The F-35 ground station then pass the data through a gateway into the IBCS system that fed the data to the shooter.

Jura said:

and Yesterday at 7:14 PM I called that chunk

one-time PR stunt aimed to

• justify ("justify") exorbitant F-35 program cost, and
• prove ("prove") how advanced the F-35 was (back in 2016)

and have nothing to add to this, actually I ask again what's on top of this page which is

so what's been the progress on the F-35 involvement in the NIFC-CA since then? just tell the World:

EDIT by the way is the NIF-CA even a program of record? (I don't know that)

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The central tenets behind NIFC-CA are situational awareness and extended-range cooperative targeting. It is a concept and not a system. The associated programs will then build the necessary architecture and communication protocols in line with this concept. For example, every unit within the carrier strike group—in the air, on the surface, or under water—would be networked through a series of existing and planned datalinks so the carrier strike group commander has as clear a picture as possible of the battle-space.

Example of programs that we know of.

(a) Block 3 release of F-18 with TTNT communications link


(b)E-2D features with CEC datalinks for offboard targetting

(c)CEC features within the Aegis system that started it all

(d)F-35 MADL links into the CEC architecture. This will probably require MADL antenna build into the USN ships as part of the scheduled maintenance

(e)ESSM Block 2 upgrade scheduled for 2020 roll out which will have CEC capability using offboard targeting data to deal will sea skimming cruise missiles.

Jura said:

would've thought you might've realized the features you linked

Yesterday at 6:43 PM

Yesterday at 7:33 PM

aren't specific to the F-35, in fact any suitable aircraft (for instance the F-18) could get them;

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I already however covered that.

TerraN_EmpirE said:

sounds like an ad for the F35 because the F35 is the only fighter with those sensors and datalink.
F22 is second best here because it lacks the EODAS, EOTS and can only talk to F22.
F/A18E, F15, F16 can talk to the other platforms but lacks the sensors no EODAS, perhaps a Targeting pod perhaps a IRST, but not the 10 Radar warning sensors.

E2D is a potent Radar but that’s all it’s got. Ditto E3.

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This all started because the F35 was used as a stand in to say where the Navy thinks the next gen fighter is going. You however view anything with F35 as a farce.
Legacy Hornets, Super Hornet <They are different fighters> Vipers, Legacy Falcon, Eagle, Strike Eagle and Thunderbolt II lack anything even close.
Its not looking out the canopy and reading off coordinates or firing off a laser pointer. It’s real time telemetry, terminal course correction and designation.

Jura said:

I'm very choosy so I quit reading after I think the second paragraph

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And this is a perfect example of where you are going wrong my friend. If you had read the whole thing it describes virtually step by step how they are working on this. Is it ready yet? No they say so.
It’s a work in progress yet you jump to Lies.
Rather than read it you just post and comment.

TerraN_EmpirE said:

And this is a perfect example of where you are going wrong my friend. If you had read the whole thing it describes virtually step by step how they are working on this. Is it ready yet? No they say so.
It’s a work in progress yet you jump to Lies.
Rather than read it you just post and comment.

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OK OK in less than two hours from now, once the Bolognese sauce is simmering, I'll read the full article

... yeah you're right TE the article () is indeed interesting; perhaps its main point:
"A complete meal in a bar, that's my goal," said Tom Yang, senior food technologist at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center

I'm wondering if those bars will be tasty on day, let's say, four

LOL but I'm not going to turn this thread into a Food Channel

Thursday at 7:44 AM

Jura said:

Oct 14, 2018now Hypersonics by the dozens: US industry faces manufacturing challenge

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somehow related is this:

(found inside )

the link to an interesting summary for those who care

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