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  1. Adding tanks should happen but only when ferrying aircraft from point to point not for combat usage The point of enhanced performance engine Growth Option 1/2 F-135 and the Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP) is doing more with less The enhancements are designed so the F-35 travels further and faster using less fuel No need for extra tanks and the extra weight 4th aircraft needed external tanks and CFTs to feed their very hungry engines Secondly the point of Joint Strike Missile ,GBU-53s, AGM-179 JAGMs and Stand-in Attack Weapon as well the potential powered JDAM is lighter but lethal The go to weapons for the 4th gen was the 500lbs,1000bs and 2000bs GBUs, 700lbs AGM-65 Maverick and 1500lbs Harpoon All great weapons but still very heavy for strike aircraft to use. The newer generation of weapons do the same job but able to be carried in larger numbers but still a lighter load than the 4th gen 6 JAGMs is 650lbs compared to 4200lbs just for 6 AGM-65s 16 GBU-53s is 3200lbs compared 8000lbs for 16 500lbs GBU-12s/38s Since the aircraft carrying lighter loads, their fuel economy is far better Adding tanks for combat is a step back not forward if they really want a fuel pod, then, they should look at the enclosed weapons pod (EWP) from the Advanced hornet program The pod is designed to be stealthy but also able to a variety of weapons instead of wasting space simply for fuel, make the EWP multi function able to carry fuel ,weapons decoys, EW
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