Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "'This is what sovereignty looks like': PM celebrates new F-35A Lightning Fighter" video.

https://www.reddit.com/r/F35Lightning/comments/8a66ta/out_of_the_shadows_rnlaf_experiences_with_the/ Out Of The Shadows: RNLAF experiences with the F-35A - Combat Aircraft Magazine May 2018 1. Dutch F-35 Block 3F, "F-35 sits somewhere in between the F-16 and F/A-18 when it comes to within visual range manoeuvring'". 2. Lightest empty weight F-16A MLU air-superiority model needs to be clean (no weapons, no external tanks) to make visual range dogfight interesting against combat loaded F-35A Block 3F. 3. Dutch has acknowledged early F-35 Block builds being beaten by F-16s with external fuel tanks which are NOT applicable for F-35A Block 3F build. Don't use Block 2A/2B/3i numbers! http://nettsteder.regjeringen.no/kampfly/2015/11/20/a-fly-f-35-erfaringer-fra-den-forste-uka/ More F-16 vs F-35 from Norwegian pilot. I quote Overall, flying the F-35 reminds me a bit of flying the F/A-18 Hornet, but with an important difference: It has been fitted with a turbo
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F-35A Block 3F Lot 9+ is cheaper than F-15EX(for USAF), EuroFighter Tranche 2 (for Saudi), and Rafale (for India).
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Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction During the 1970s and 1980s, ANSTO scientists developed centrifuge enrichment technology, claimed to be comparable with the commercial URENCO centrifuge technology of the time. Such technology, if deployed on an industrial scale, would have been capable in principle of producing highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons. The research lost government funding in the mid-1980s.[21]. Bob Hawke's federal Labor party killed Australia's ANSTO developed centrifuge enrichment technology!
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@o0posh0o58 Australian rocket industry needs UK's support, hence why I support CANZUK.
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There's no such thing as YF-35.
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http://australianaviation.com.au/2017/07/next-eight-raaf-f-35as-on-track-for-2018-delivery/ Meanwhile, to date the RAAF’s AU-1 and -2 have flown almost 1,100 flight hours in 700 sorties, Over said They’re flying at about the utilisation rate that a mature weapon system like F-16s or F-18s are returning at. So the airplanes have really been performing remarkably well” From Australia's point of view, F-35A and F-18 have similar utilization rate.
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@GrooberNedJardine A10 is just target practise for S300's power pole size missile.
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Collins class platform is designed by Sweden.
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Japan and South Korea are upgrading their F-15s. South Korea is also upgrading their F-16 fleet towards F-16V Block 70/72 https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2019/10/30/japan-gets-us-nod-for-45-billion-f-15-upgrade-package/ Japan's F-15J upgraded into F-15JSI
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Disinfo Bot No. 420 and missile guided submarines.
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Australia is purchasing F-35A Block 3F.
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Better than Bill Shortie.
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@Sonia Reynolds Against Microwave radiation, build a Faraday box. Metal reflects Microwaves, hence why stealth fighter's surfaces are built on carbon composite materials instead of metals. LOL
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@Sonia Reynolds Microwave and Millimeter Wave (mmWave) RF Systems has radio frequencies from 30 GHz to 300 GHz. Millimetre band is from Baytron which is defunct company that made test equipment. LOL X band has 8 to 12 GHz frequencies Ku band has 12 to 18 GHz frequencies Ka, V and W bands overlaps and cover Baytron's millimetre band. Infrared radiation (IR) band covers the wavelength range of 700 nm to 1 mm, frequency range of 430 THz to 300 GHz. LOL Your body emits IR radiation. LOL SpaceX uses the Ka-band spectrum which has 26.5 to 40 gigahertz range. British Inmarsat I-5 system already uses Ka-band spectrum. Per the FCC approval for the Starlink space stations, "SpaceX proposes to operate in the 10.7-12.7 GHz, 13.85-14.5 GHz, 17.8-18.6 GHz, 18.8-19.3 GHz, 27.5-29.1 GHz, and 29.5-30 GHz bands."
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@Sonia Reynolds Line your house or room with aluminum thermal shield as a Faraday box as its material. Metal is at good reflecting microwave EMR.
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Both F-15S and F-16I are target practices for Yemen's surface-to-air missiles and Russian S200 respectively.
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@fatdoi003 Modern stealth is NOT a cloaking device i.e. stealth only reduces enemy radar's effective detection/tracking/lock-on range.
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@fatdoi003 1. F-35 carries a towed decoy with a larger radar cross-section. With lower RCS, stealth enhances towed decoy's effectiveness. 2. With lower RCS, stealth enhances chaff's effectiveness. 3. Long-wavelength radar has less resolution when compared to shorter wavelength radar.
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@WarblesOnALot F-35's overhead issue occurs for F-35B and F-35C models NOT F-35A Block 3F model, hence your "F-35...The Little Turd..." is bullshit. Furthermore, new thermal coatings first introduced on Lot 8 of the F-35s have reduced the risk of thermal damage.
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@WarblesOnALot https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-US-Air-Forces-F-35-stealth-fighter-have-heat-issues-when-flying-supersonic-and-whats-overheating With the completion of developmental flight testing, the F-35 no longer has any heat issues when flying within its design flight envelope (with a top speed of Mach 1.6). In the past however there were 2 sets of speed restrictions: In the FY2015 Director of Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E) report for the F-35, it was noted that the program had an airspeed restriction in place where F-35s were not permitted to fly at speeds equal or greater than 500kts below 5,000ft, 550kts between 5,000–15,000ft and 600 knots between 15,000–25,000ft, for more than 10 minutes at a time without opening the weapon bay doors to vent the air inside them. Above 25,000ft there were no restrictions (aside from the Mach 1.6 top speed). The reason that this restriction was put in place was because an electronics system that was moved into a weapons bay for easier maintenance access had not been tested and fully certified to last an acceptably long life in high temperatures. When the F-35’s engine is producing high levels of thrust, it produces a significant amount of heat which is transmitted into the weapon bays. This can result in the weapon bays reaching temperatures of over 80C / 176F, so if a circuit board was only previously tested to 85C / 185F, it would require re-verification. Since that report’s release years ago, those flight restrictions have been removed. When the F-35’s afterburner was used for extended periods of time it would cause heat damage to the inner surfaces and coatings of the horizontal stabilisers (which extend out behind the jet, either side of the exhaust plume. This problem was particularly an issue for the F-35B and F-35C variants which accelerate slower and therefore need more time using afterburner to reach speeds such as Mach 1.6. In the first half of 2018 however, all 3 variants of the F-35 were certified to fly their full flight envelope, and the latest DOT&E report has no mention of this issue remaining, or of afterburner usage restrictions being imposed. As for the F-35’s Mach 1.6 speed limit, this is purely a placard limit, where the manufacturer was only contracted to develop a Mach 1.6 capable fighter and no funding or requirement has been made to test whether the jet can exceed Mach 1.6 by a non-trivial amount. Diagrams of the F-35’s flight envelope suggest that all 3 variants can fly faster than Mach 1.6, with the F-35A’s diagram appearing to suggest a top speed of around Mach 1.8 or higher, but this is speculation, and Lockheed cannot guarantee the jet will continue to be safe to operate to (eg) Mach 1.8 without studies and flight testing. In any case, top speeds are not very relevant to real world combat (due to how quickly jets will drain their already partially-depleted fuel tanks trying to reach them) and there could be thermal issues (either with even hotter weapon bays, or additional horizontal tail heating, or with aerodynamic heating causing issues for the jet’s stealth coatings).
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Centre wing assembly contains machined longerons produced by Lovitt Technologies Australia. Sydney-based manufacturer Quickstep also supplies components to the F-35 Lightning II program. Lovitt and Quickstep are just two of the more than 17 Australian-based companies manufacturing parts and components for the worldwide fleet of F-35s, including Australia’s own F-35 aircraft.
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@fatdoi003 Wrong, McDuck failed to deliver F-117A solution to USN i.e. A-12 Avenger II. Boeing (with McDuck engineering team)'s X-32 is worst than LM's X-35.
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@fatdoi003 F-35A's ~1.5X scale design rule over F-16C on empty weight, wing area, and engine thrust targets and placard Mach 1.6 speed limit were specified by the Pentagon. The US government will not allow higher-speed stealth fighters to be export to other countries! The US government will not allow higher-speed F-15C dogfight performance + stealth to be export to other countries!
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@fatdoi003 Both Nunn and McCurdy are Democrats.
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@fatdoi003 Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunn%E2%80%93McCurdy_Amendment It requires notification to the United States Congress if the cost per unit goes more than 25% beyond what was originally estimated and calls for the termination of programs with total cost growth greater than 50%, unless the Secretary of Defense submits a detailed explanation certifying: 1. the program is essential to national security, that no suitable alternative of lesser cost is available; 2. new estimates of total program costs are reasonable; and 3. management structure is (or has been made) adequate to control costs.
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@fatdoi003 Saudi F-15S and Israeli F-16I are easy targets for Yeman and Russian surface-to-air missiles.
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@raptordriver7340 F-35's stealth coating is different from F-22's higher speed tolerant stealth coating. F-35 was designed to be exported, hence why US allies with either F-15s or Eurofighters are looking for alternatives e.g. UK/Italy/Sweden's Tempest, Japan's F-3, South Korea's KFX, and France/Germany/Spain's Future Combat Air System. UK and Japan are working together on their respective stealth fighter projects.
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@raptordriver7340 Jammer's weakness is the seek-to-emission source missile.
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@raptordriver7340 F-16I was shot down by S200.
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@raptordriver7340 There's a difference between thermal vs physical strength. F-35A's empty weight is very close to F-15C's, but F-35A has smaller wings and less thrust-to-weight ratio, hence refer to funded engine upgrade program. F-35C has a similar wing area to F-15's, near F-15E's empty weight, it's underpowered (thrust relative to its weight and wing area) and 7.5 G limited. F-35C's weight down by Navy's structural reinforcement.
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@raptordriver7340 From RAAF's F-22A vs F-15D with Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM) experience “…the ability to actually have that data fusion that the aeroplane has makes an incredible difference to how you perform in combat. I saw it first hand on a Red Flag mission in an F15D against a series of fifth-generation F22s. We were actually in the red air. In five engagements we never knew who had hit us and we never even saw the other aeroplane…. After that particular mission I went back and had a look at the tapes on the F22, and the difference in the situational awareness in our two cockpits was just so fundamentally different. That is the key to fifth-generation. That is where I have trouble with the APA analysis…. To me that is key: it is not only stealth; it is the combination of the EOS and the radar to be able to build a comprehensive picture. In that engagement I talked about at Nellis, in Red Flag, the ability to be in a cockpit with a God’s-eye view of what is going on in the world was such an advantage over a fourth-generation fighter – and arguably one of the best fourth-generation fighters in existence, the F15. But even with a DRFM jamming pipe, we still had no chance in those particular engagements. And at no time did any of the performance characteristics that you are talking about have any relevance to those five engagements.” ------------ Both F-35 and F-22 have a passive stereo radar that can locate, track and target EM emission source i.e. F-15 is painting target me with its jammer. F-15EX does NOT replace F-22A or NGAD.
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@raptordriver7340 From F-35A pilot blog, it handles like F-15E with a high angle of attack feature. USAF is aware of F-35A's T/W issues, hence the funded engine upgrade in the road map. F-35's road map upgrades are part of Lockheed's PR. F-15E-1 has the engine upgrade.
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@raptordriver7340 https://theaviationgeekclub.com/iaf-investigation-finds-f-16i-shot-crew-failed-defend-sufficiently F-16I's avionics has alerted the pilot and navigator. The pilot has a fixation on completing the mission over survival. My point remains, F-16I has presented itself as a target for the obsolete S200 SAMs.
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Australian welfare budget is significantly higher than the military budget.
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Australia plans to by 100 F-35s which is not including Hornet size Loyal Wing man.
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@mrlautomotive712 I support missile guided submarines as a counter strike platform e.g. UK has nuclear armed ICBM submarines to guarantee it's territorial integrity.
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Australia would have 100 F-35A and 11 EA-18G units. 12 of 24 F/A-18F Block 2 are wired for EA-18G roles, hence acting like spares for EA-18G fleet. Australia's EA-18G has extra A2A missile mount points modification.
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For a counter strike missions, missile guided submarines are preferable.
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US government didn't want McDuck JAST design. Australia's Loyal Wingman's wing and tail design is similar McDuck's JAST design. Boeing owns McDuck's JAST design.
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