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So nice old memories coming back with Ironhand's tutorials!

I'm not so sure other fighter AESA sets are "delivering": the AESA's on F-15 are also provided by Raytheon, with many parts in common. Don't forget the SH and Growler are operational with these kits, no one has called retrofit or whatever, not even these reports. They just keep up the validation work. I would say that this maturation problem highlights the long road ahead for F-35: ther is no reason to believe APG-81 will work from the start as expected, quite on the contrary. It's the delay that plays in favour of SH, nothing else.

Here link to FY2012 report: http://www.dote.osd.mil/pub/reports/FY2012/pdf/navy/2012fa18ef.pdf Indeed still some criticisms of the radar performance, but nothing alarming, no? Funny: not much betetr than APG-73. We'll see if APG-81 can do better, but that will still be a long wait.

Do you mean sources like this? http://www.dote.osd.mil/pub/reports/FY2011/pdf/navy/2011fa18ef.pdf I wouldn't worry about that. Seems all normal to me. Same kind of reports that are taken completely out of context by the F-35 critics. The same document, even the more critical one from 2009, states: Overall, the APG-79 radar demonstrates improved capability over the legacy APG-73 radar, providing longer-range detections for air-to-air operations and improved synthetic aperture radar performance for air-to-ground operations. There were no recommendations to change anything to the deployed fleet, neither in 2009, or 2011. And BTW we are 2013 by now.

If ever this unsourced (again?) statement were true, these problems will have been sorted out long before the first F-35 even remotely becomes tactically viable in any situation.

When comparijng how novel the F-35 is against the 4.5 competition one has to take into account that the programme faces a 7-year delay (and counting). If the F-35 had been on time, then the SH would surely be obsolete by now. But it wasn't, and the SH/Growler now sport high-speed fibre-optic network, APG-79 AESA radar etc. While LM has to put enormous resources in trying to make an unproven plastic airframe carrier-capable, Boeing can focus on avionics, human interface, optical systems etc, that can be supplied by the same companies that deliver to F-35. So thanks to F-35 misplanning, there is still a serious lease of life in SH. I would guess for at least 20 years, probably 30.

"Geleid projectiel", yes, that makes sense ! I never realized missile had this broad meaning of projectile.

Anyhow - Dutch language e.g. only has the word rocket, not missile - I'll love to see APKWSII in DCS!

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1697691&postcount=8 Woooohaaaa!!! Some goodies underway for my favourite aircraft, the vanilla SU-25!

Scorpion helmet to be evaluated on F-22 : http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/usaf-to-evaluate-scorpion-helmet-display-on-f-22-raptor-383307/

DAGR is supercool: http://defense-update.com/20130228_dagr-jltv.html

^^+1 (can't rep you)

Something else: I read in Air Interrnational March 2013 p. 13 that the Su-34 has been used in Combat missions over Dagestan and Ingushetia. Any news / confirmation on that?

I wasn't so sure F-35 supercruise is really an F-35 forte. I guess it will fly very easily and accellerate well in the high subsonic-transonic regime, but mention supercruise as one of its qualities through which it would gain an A2A advantage seems over the top. I guess a Typhoon would do better in that regard, no? Sometimes it seems like we inflate the F-35 into being an F-22.

Reading this long thread just now, I feel relieved: it describes exactly my problems with rudder and trim. The implementation is indeed erroneous and causes the majority of issues with flying the Ka-50. I'm forced to fly as much as possible on stick only, since rudder is porked.

Sorry to interrupt the philosophical discussions with some more news on F-35: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/22/us-lockheed-fighter-idUSBRE91L10U20130222

Those @"!§ cheats are flying in arcade mode ??? They should be banned from FC3 servers!!!

I understood the fifth KC-30A tanker has been delivered? http://www.asiapacificdefencereporter.com/articles/277/Airbus-Military-delivers-final-A330-MRTT-to-Royal-Australian-Air-Force

Video of F-35 simulator training, landing on carrier: http://news.google.be/news/url?sr=1&ct2=us%2F2_0_s_0_1_a&sa=t&usg=AFQjCNGDU3A0uWIvwOZE9-X84i-pDm_0rQ&cid=43981999440215&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nwfdailynews.com%2Fmilitary%2Ftop-story%2Feglin-s-f-35-flight-simulators-integral-part-of-pilot-training-video-1.96767&ei=aqIgUYjHH9KU8gPCkQE&rt=HOMEPAGE&vm=STANDARD&bvm=section&did=8011659311482963619&sid=b23a89405f50e96

Yes, but remember that other tri-service aircraft, the F-4 Phantom II ? We heard all the same criticisms when it was introduced. But it emerged to be the all-time classic strike fighter. So there is hope for F-35!

Interesting!

Wow, I like the French hard- and software!

I agree: trying to blame the pilot to safeguard LM's image was for me the absolute lowest point in the recent USAF's history. It has backfired sourly on them, the discontent in the pilots ranks eventually leading to the infamous 60 minutes episode. I voiced my disbelief on this sordid, despicable, low-hearted military-industrial collusion already on this forum so won't do it again. But I am very relieved, for the widow and her children that there is some justice in the end. I have the PDF with the report on my PC. Everytime I read how they "squarely (sic) put the blame on the pilot" while it was chrystal clear it all started with a malfunction, it makes me very angry indeed. What an appalling lack of leadership.

Dear Balkan friends, What on earth has the Yugo conflict to do with the simple fact that Northrop Grumman developed a quite amazing piece of kit with the AAQ-37, that simply puts "labels on" possible targets? If someone would fly labels on in Lockon you would all cry foul. Are you seriously going to claim that it is not useful to be able to determine where a shot comes from? It's the kind of technologies everyone in the industry is pursuing for all the good reasons.