Comments by "David Houseman" (@davidhouseman4328) on "What It's Like To Fly An F-35B... From The Man Inside The Cockpit | Forces TV" video.

  1. Given technology advances that makes perfect sense.
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  2. Thanks for buying British.
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  3.  @rpm1796  the argument is air superiority is just about information. The F35 denies it to the enemy via stealth and picks it up better than the enemy by it sensors. That make sit a boss CAP aircraft. Once we've adapted the meteor it has the weapon advantage too.
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  4. I'm afraid India won't be allowed them, too much contact with the Russian defence industry.
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  5. Your not into big bums then?
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  6.  @flaggnerd  The Italian are assembling some, the Japanese some. Most in the US of course. The UK is building 15% of the parts. Lockheed is the prime, but BAE for example is building more than 10% of it (some of which is BAE in the US). Defence industries are so intergrated now.
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  7.  @mohawk2131  your trying to do it with Tejas. And even then your using an American engine. I'm not a trying to put you down but aerospace industries are hard to build up and your still at the stage where outside expertise is very helpful.
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  8.  @magecraft2  though it might not be relevant, stealth is often about targeting rather than spotting. A burst of data will tell people your there but not allow them to shoot a missile at you.
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  9.  @clydeceniza2521  and that doesn't even narrow your country down much. Theres only about 20 countries with a bigger GDP than it.
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  10.  @sirblackstone  India could use the domestic industry more. A good 4th gen jet built in India would be better long term.
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  11. The US is is buying more in parts off us that we are buying planes off the US. The F35 is an export success.
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  12. You'd lose all your energy and be dead in the air if you tried to do that,
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  13. That one engine produces about the same power as the Typhoons two.
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  14. If it's the quarterback for American football, and the flyhalf for Rugby, what about other sports? Football - The deep lying playmaker (Pirlo esque)?
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  15. @Birdy Flying you think that there's a conspiarcy not just in the a US military including the pilots whose life depends on the F35, but also in the dozen other countries buying it and it fact in countries like Russia and China that are developing there own stealth jets? Your Serbia comment just shows there has been on 1 stealth jet downed in countless sorties.
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  16.  @Albertkallal  great rice imagery, people don't really understand numbers instinctively.
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  17.  @sirblackstone  again I apologise for my fellow countrymen. Next time come to Yorkshire.
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  18. Nope, but enough of it works
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  19.  @TomTheGamer913  the USMC are buying a few Cs as well? Even 340 is more than they'll use on there ships, they're accounting for some forward based (or off QE).
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  20.  @Johnmk24  if your talking about Viffing, they didn't actual use it.
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  21.  @kurousagi8155  agreed the Rafale will match up to anything Pakistan or China has for a couple of decades. And effort can be spent making it better, like their Brahmos developments.
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  22.  @adepease6399  The US Navy in Vietnam didn't add a gun, they taught there pilots to fight without one. And Vietnam war was half century ago, closer to Spitfires than F35s. The argument isn't a gun vs no gun. It's a gun vs what ever replaces it. An extra missile? Extra speed from less weight? The gun is a case of you get the blame when it's needed, you can't see all the wins the lack of it has facilitated.
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  23. The RAF only kept the Typhoon gun because the it balanced the ballast. Guns are a relic.
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  24. Doesn't look like, there was an alternative RR engine, but the US cut the funding on it.
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  25.  @LaVictoireEstLaVie  Even the Chinese don't believe it's the most advanced aircraft. That doesn't stop it being a great stepping stone for them.
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  26. The F35 would be a great choice to bomb dams if that's what we did nowadays. Bomber is as much part of it's role as fighter, and in practice bombing will be much more common.
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  27.  @clydeceniza2521  The Philippines?
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  28.  @TomTheGamer913  600 what? They going for 340 Bs, but thousands in total.
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  29. @Blob B the F35s are for the joint RAF/FAA Lightning force. They will fly from land or sea as appropriate.
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  30.  @sirblackstone  I'm more of a Tolkien and Iain M Banks person myself. York has to be top of the list if your a tourist. But yeah, big cities are just big cities which ever country they are in.
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  31.  @sirblackstone  I'm sorry to hear that, may be I'm wrong. I know we hate Trump, but I didn't think it would extend to personal interactions.
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  32.  @sirblackstone  the majority of it is just friends bitching about friends.
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  33. But you'd get less of them.
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  34.  @callumbentley1582  I'd like to see some F35/Typhoon combo vs pure F35 war games to see whose better.
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  35.  @StryderK  How does something much lighter than a car, going slower hit with the same force?
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  36.  @MMG008  Football is the only sport I played where I saw someone gain an extra join between the knee and ankle, the brake was that bad. That was contact.
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  37.  @MMG008  American football is not proper contact sport. Pads contact pads, men don't contact men.
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  38.  @mike3308  what about Cricket then? I kind of thought it was just the captain so not a good example. Hockey?
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  39.  @BatMan-oe2gh  that made me chuckle at least.
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  40.  @BatMan-oe2gh  where's the joke bit?
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