Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "Real Engineering" channel.

@deathstrike http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2019/March%202019/Keeping-the-F-35-Ahead-of-the-Bad-Guys.aspx Last October, then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis directed the Air Force to increase mission capable rates for the F-22, F-16, and F-35 to at least 80 percent. At the time, the F-35 rate was 54 percent overall, but for *3F aircraft recently off the production line, the rate was better than 80 percent*. US has managed with older F-35 Block builds. Remember, USAF has dumped older F-15A and F-16A models into the boneyard. JSF export customers have F-35 Block 3F builds which they don't worry about pre-Block 3i hardware.
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@mobiuscoreindustries I'll bite Thrust/Weight ratios http://www.skyflightsupport.com/tools/jet-a-1-conversion-chart.html Rafale's 1,882 km combat radius needs "two CFTs (2,300 L), three tanks (5,700 L)" = 21,700 L + internal fuel Rafale's *1,882 km combat radius needs 27628 L of fuel. Rafale's Internal fuel combat radius estimate (5928 L / 27628 L) x 1,882 km = 403.81 Km Rafale C Empty Weight: 21,720 lbs Internal Fuel: 10,400 lbs (5928 L, A-1 Jet fuel conversion ) with 403.81 Km combat radius. Total weight: 32120 lbs Thrust: 33720 lbf Thrust/Weight: 1.05 : 1 F-35A Empty Weight: 28,999 lbs Internal Fuel: 5308.93 lbs with 403.81 Km combat radius. F-35A has 1407 Km combat radius at max fuel load (18,498 lb, 8,390 kg). Total weight: 34307.93 lbs Thrust/Weight: 1.25 : 1 F-35A has a superior Thrust/Weight ratio. Rafale has crappy engines. I'm game for another Rafale vs F-35A Block 3F debate.
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@deathstrike F-35C flies like a Super Hornet statement from USN https://youtu.be/Vxe4Jv1cJxI?t=526
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@randomgaming8616 When stealth is not required for F-35A 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 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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3b-b762QRY Super Hornet's high angle of attack with minimum turn radius advantage holding its own against F-15's high energy turn rate advantage dogfight example. Major F-35A difference from Super Hornet is F-35A's superior acceleration and roll rates. http://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=5525&start=1335#wrapper From GTA4's post with OEM numbers, F-35A beating EuroFighter in acceleration. http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2009/07/i-flew-supersonic-barely-at-th/ F-35C has 300 degrees per second roll rate. F-35A roll rate: 300 deg/sec. Video proof. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qceZALofOcg&feature=youtu.be&t=1m15s http://theaviationist.com/2015/05/01/aileron-roll-in-t-346a/ According to most reports a Rafale features a maximum roll rate of 270 deg/s, the Eurofighter Typhoon is able of around 250 deg/s, the F/A-18E Super Hornet has a maximum roll rate of 120 deg/s whereas the F-16 can roll at 240 deg/s. Original source (non-English) http://suomenkuvalehti.fi/jutut/kotimaa/suomella-vahvat-ilmavoimat-mutta-kuinka-kauan/ Frisian Flag 2012 exercises in Holland, Finnish F-18Cs gets 100 kills and 6 loses against Eurofighter (Germany, UK), Polish new F-16 and older F-16 planes (Norway, Belgium) and Gripen (Swedish) Finland's F-18C has 16:1 kill ratio over Germany/UK's Eurofighter, Poland's F-16C Block 52+ and Norway/Belgium's F-16A MLU and Sweden's Gripen. F-16s and Eurocanards have an angle of attack capabilities less than 30 degrees.
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@Urazz F-35A Lot 14 reached $78 million per unit cost.
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@mobiuscoreindustries Your argument is false. F-35A Block 3F (9G) is optimized for evolved Hornet style very close-range dogfight with 360 degrees targeting capability. F-35A doesn't have F-22A's high top speed and very high altitude i.e. thrust vector tail function.
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CAG Hotshot F-22 has higher altitude. F-22 has higher speed. F-22 has robust tail functions at very high altitude.
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This is for F-35A Block 3F since December 2017 http://www.luke.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1386133/lukes-newest-amu-supports-f-35-program/ "The unit is the first Luke F-35 AMU to receive a 3F, or full-up, combat aircraft capable of pulling 9G’s in the air."
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kristenburnout1, false. If you read http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/666042.pdf at page 25 shows the breakdown for $916.3 billion (JPO) or 1020 billion (CAPE) estimate $916.3 / 56 years = $16.36 billion per year. $1020.3 / 56 years = $18.21 billion per year. http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_welfare_spending_40.html US spends about $500.3 billion USD/fiscal year on welfare which is significantly larger than F-35's $16.36 billion per year rate.
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Garret Jacobs, NASA has zero output in regards to combat capable flying units. If there's going to be welfare, make sure it's productive, not dead money.
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@stephenburrows4250 That's bullshit. Why continue posting this nonsense, even Saab has agreed that F-35A is not too bad? http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l327/encia/F35/F-35AfromSaab_zps6b92ab35.jpg Original source (non-English) http://suomenkuvalehti.fi/jutut/kotimaa/suomella-vahvat-ilmavoimat-mutta-kuinka-kauan/ Frisian Flag 2012 exercises in Holland, Finnish F-18Cs gets 100 kills and 6 loses against Eurofighter (Germany, UK), Polish new F-16 and older F-16 planes (Norway, Belgium) and Gripen (Swedish) Finland's F-18C has 16:1 kill ratio over Germany/UK's Eurofighter, Poland's F-16C Block 52+ and Norway/Belgium's F-16A MLU and Sweden's Gripen. 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3b-b762QRY Super Hornet's high angle of attack with minimum turn radius advantage holding its own against F-15's high energy turn rate advantage dogfight example. Replace Super Hornet with F-35A Block 3F with superior acceleration (beats EuroFIghter and Hornets) and superior roll rates. http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2009/07/i-flew-supersonic-barely-at-th/ F-35C has 300 degrees per second roll rate. F-35A roll rate: 300 deg/sec. Video proof. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qceZALofOcg&feature=youtu.be&t=1m15s http://theaviationist.com/2015/05/01/aileron-roll-in-t-346a/ According to most reports a Rafale features a maximum roll rate of 270 deg/s, the Eurofighter Typhoon is able of around 250 deg/s, the F/A-18E Super Hornet has a maximum roll rate of 120 deg/s whereas the F-16 can roll at 240 deg/s. F-35A Block 3F has 9G with 50 degrees angle of attack. For Rafale http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/flight-test-dassault-rafale-rampant-rafale-334383/ The DFCS is a "g" demand system with +9.0g/29° angle of attack (AoA) limit in air-to-air mode and +5.5g/20° AoA limit in both of the two air-to-ground/heavy stores modes (ST1 and ST2) to cater for forward or aft centre of gravity For F-35A, http://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=15013&start=210 Article copied beyond Aviation Week paywall. So it got stuck at 60 or 70 deg. alpha, and it was as happy as could be https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1474667015332274?via%3Dihub The JAS 39 Gripen is a 26 degree angle of attack aircraft for the light external store configurations and 20 degrees for the most heavy external store configurations. The variation of angle of attack with roll stick position is used to give roll command priority, when the pilot demands roll rate. I'll debate you.
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@brothergigawatt2116 https://www.military.com/video/boeing-unveils-unmanned-fighter-drone
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CAG Hotshot I'm already aware of F-22 doesn't use TVC at high speed when there's sufficient airflow over the flight control surfaces.
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2/3 of earth's gravity would lessen the build cost.
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Garret Jacobs Fiscal year 2017 spending bill early May 1 provide NASA with $19.65 billion.
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F-35B is not dependent on aircraft carriers. If the operation zone are the Koreas, Taiwan and deep into Chinese Manchuria/Beijing, F-35A's 1407 km combat radius with A2A load enables it use any Japanese islands as unsinkable aircraft carrier. F-35A's range is designed for a war against China i.e. US already factored in aircraft carrier risk.
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https://www.defensenews.com/air/2019/06/10/lockheed-pentagon-reach-handshake-agreement-on-first-f-35-multiyear-buy/ While the Pentagon did not provide costs per aircraft in its news release, that would amount to about $81 million per F-35A conventional takeoff and landing model compared to $89.2 million for an F-35A in lot 11. Lord estimated that the cost will drop around 15 percent from lot 11 to lot 14 across all variants, which could peg an A model at around $76 million. “This framework estimates the delivery of an F-35A for less than $80M in Lot 13, one year earlier than planned," Lord said.
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A-10 has the new wing program instead.
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@Rod_Nyssen You're stupid as fuck. Original source (non-English) http://suomenkuvalehti.fi/jutut/kotimaa/suomella-vahvat-ilmavoimat-mutta-kuinka-kauan/ Frisian Flag 2012 exercises in Holland, Finnish F-18Cs gets 100 kills and 6 loses against Eurofighter (Germany, UK), Polish new F-16 and older F-16 planes (Norway, Belgium) and Gripen (Swedish) Finland's F-18C has 16:1 kill ratio over Germany/UK's Eurofighter, Poland's F-16C Block 52+ and Norway/Belgium's F-16A MLU and Sweden's Gripen. 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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@wolumandreas1130 F-35A will fly within F-16's turn radius and nose point at it like a Hornet.
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Very high speed = high thermal signature. Basic air friction science 101. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN-A6PWRFno The video shows F-35's IRST capabilities with tracking/detection >1300Km range. F-35's EO-DAS has 360 degrees IRST distributive sensors with detection range around >1300Km against SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. F-35's 360 degree IRST distributive sensors can feed data to anti-ballistics missile/Aegis combat systems. http://www.defensetech.org/2015/01/22/navy-to-integrate-f-35-with-beyond-the-horizon-technology/ Linking Aegis combat system with F-35. https://news.vice.com/article/us-defense-secretary-announces-navy-can-blow-up-anything-it-wants-any-time-it-wants A test SM missile was fired from USN Aegis ship and track/target data which is guided by F-35. http://www.govexec.com/defense/2017/12/newly-revealed-experiment-shows-how-f-35-could-help-intercept-icbms/144372/ F-35's (EO-DAS) sensors can guide U.S. Navy’s anti-ballistic missile or U.S. Army’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile battery. Hint: Tracking the space shuttle during hypersonic speeds at upper atmosphere.
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@NatEff3ct Read http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140915/DEFREG04/309150012/Gaza-War-Leaned-Heavily-F-16-Close-Air-Support for Israel's F-16 CAS results. Israel knows what they are doing i.e. USA is not only military force that has beaten Arab armies. F-35's CAS roles are evolved from Israeli style F-16 CAS.
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George Costarica A10 has new wings program.
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@laturista1000 You haven't learned from the Philippines example which bent over like a maid from China's aggression. Naive fool.
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@hitman27k Your argument is fake news. FACT CHECK from Lockheed’s codeone magazine http://www.codeonemagazine.com/article.html?item_id=137 A great deal of misinformation has appeared on the Internet regarding the relationship of the Soviet Yak-41 (later Yak-141), NATO reporting name Freestyle, to the X-35 and the rest of the JSF program. The Pratt & Whitney 3BSD nozzle design predates the Russian work. In fact the 3BSD was tested with a real engine almost twenty years before the first flight of the Yak. Yakovlev was looking for money to keep its VTOL program alive, not having received any orders for a production version of the Yak-141. Lockheed provided a small amount of funding in return for obtaining performance data and limited design data on the Yak-141. US government personnel were allowed to examine the aircraft. *However, the 3BSN design was already in place on the X-35 before these visits*. Hypocrisy? fuckoff
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Mind Freshener Petr Ufimtsev develops a mathematical theory on radar reflection, not radiation-absorbent material. https://web.archive.org/web/20130118104144/http://voices.yahoo.com/the-first-stealth-fighter-de-havilland-mosquito-486295.html?cat=37 "Of the several unplanned strategic benefits the Mosquito fighter provided was its capability as a "Stealth Fighter". By using metal only for the engines, and non-magnetic brass screws as reinforcement at critical points in the airframe, the De Havilland Mosquito was virtually invisible to German radar. In the early days of primitive radar detection, due to their low radar signature, sorties of Mosquito fighters were frequently mistaken as flocks of birds!"
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@joehentalack2443 Canada is buying second-hand F/A-18A MLU from Australia. 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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@kinghoola4926 Wrong, F-35A has gun accuracy issues.
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@Nurhaal Read https://www.reddit.com/r/F35Lightning/comments/8a66ta/out_of_the_shadows_rnlaf_experiences_with_the/ Text copied from 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.
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CAG Hotshot F-35 has 360 degrees targeting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3b-b762QRY Super Hornet's high angle of attack with minimum turn radius advantage holding its own against F-15's high energy turn rate advantage dogfight example.. F-35A dogfights like a "Hornet with a turbo". F-35A follows 1.5X design scale from F-16C Block 50 on empty weight, wing area, and engine thrust design targets.
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CAG Hotshot 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. F-35A Block 3F can defeat the lowest empty weight F-16A MLU air-superiority model.
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PCTech Guy F-15EX (with a high angle of attack improvements) and F-16V Block 70/72 are the new configs with avionics upgrades and lighter weight AESA radar.
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Read http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140915/DEFREG04/309150012/Gaza-War-Leaned-Heavily-F-16-Close-Air-Support for Israel's F-16 CAS results. Israel knows what they are doing i.e. USA is not only military force that has beaten Arab armies. F-35's CAS roles are evolved from Israeli style F-16 CAS.
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You need to add a battery storage area with very large-scale solar panels.
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Bullshit. 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.
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@jambo shiz Your argument is fucking stupid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3b-b762QRY Super Hornet's high angle of attack with minimum turn radius advantage holding its own against F-15's high energy turn rate advantage dogfight example. Replace Super Hornet 8G with F-35A with better acceleration, better roll rates, and higher 9G.
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@GamerGuy760 Note that https://web.archive.org/web/20160311173046/asiapacificdefencereporter.com/articles/250/Exercise-Pitch-Black “The Hornets and Sukhois are having interesting fights with various outcomes. The Hornets have done fairly well, even during 1v1.” WGCDR Jones said Australian pilots were getting a “buzz out of working with a new platform,” but he too declined to offer an opinion on the capabilities of the Flankers. Instead he diplomatically said, “I remain very comfortable that we have the Super Hornet in RAAF service.” GPCAPT Kitcher assessed the Super Hornets as enjoying parity with the Flankers, but that “a pilot’s skill is the most important factor”. ---------- Super Hornets as enjoying parity with the Flankers F-35A = Hornet with a turbo SU-35 = SU-30MK with a turbo http://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=5525&start=1335#wrapper From GTA4's post with OEM numbers, F-35A beating EuroFighter in acceleration. F-35C has F-15E style low wing loading with acceleration similar to EuroFighter. LOL. F-35C has superior high alpha when compared to Rafale, EuroFighter and Gripen C/E, F-15C, F-15E and F-16C/D/E/V SU-30/35 doesn't fight like F-15's low wing loading+ high energy at high G.
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