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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.

Maybe we are just not confounding pocket calculator/wikipedia reasoning with advanced aerodynamical computing ? The DoD has a slightly different approach as yours: there are still thousands of test points to be accomplished in the F-35 programme, and at the moment, to give one example, the complete flight envelope has not been cleared yet and a performance assessment has not been made. Add to this that in current designs, software is a key factor in performance. I remember a software update that gave Swiss or Finnish F/A-18C aircraft higher AoA capabilities and better turn performance. Or a software update that allowed for fuel consumption reduction on F-18E/F. So while you made up your mind using card game data, engineers are still performing thousands of tests to assess true performance of the aircraft, knowing that even when it goes operational that will not be the end of improvements.

Indeed, there is a case to make that F-35A can take over roles from F-15C.

... And it is just plain and simple better at everything than the Harrier, which they fly from 8 Wasp-class Assault ships.

Flying doctor: http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123334469 Performance-wise the F-22 is breaking new ground, pushing the limits!

Hé, weren't we waiting for a patch lately? I almost forgot all about it!

Hello Marcos, As I see it, performance tables on F-35 today are not so relevant since the test aircraft have not opened yet the full flight envelope and there are still limitations on AoA, altitude, speed etc. The simplistic theories of wing area etc are also of limited use since the blended, lifting body design of F-35 is the result of way more complex computational models. To me, all evidence points out that: - a combat-loaded F-35 will have comparable to if not better performance than a clean F-16/F-18 class fighter while offering considerably more range; - it will see those 4-gen fighters first so no need to fight physics to "get into their six" - the F-35B beats the Harrier in all relevant aspects by a large margin, whether it is payload, range, speed, manoevrability, avionics, ease-of-flight, etc ... and with some good luck the UK will even have a carrier for it! And do you really think the test programme is running that much worse than that of V-22, NH-90, A-400M, Tigre etc. ?

Imho this whole F-35B grounding thing is a non-event: http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/asd_01_30_2013_p01-02-542267.xml&p=1

MV-22B Night Training MV-22B Night training:

For the trap see 5:37 or 5:50

V-22 airstrike: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21095503

All Boeing 787's grounded! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21054089

We dont buy this Sov13t, we know this is just a Russian scheme to make us believe they still only have old R-27R while secretly these are all hypersophisticated ultra-secret R-27EA's ! You can't fool us any longer :=)