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  1. Okay vague question: Is there a reason why 2 strips at an ex-RAF base pointing in totally different directions would have the same numbers at each end?
  2. Eurofighter: Typhoon To Be More Agile, Deadly
  3. http://fightersweep.com/2698/f-35-worst-fighter-ever/
  4. F-35 Integrated Core Processor Specification: http://www2.l-3com.com/displays/pdfs/redesign/ICP(2011)_LR.pdf
  5. Interesting read. http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR676.html
  6. The whole point of a stealth fighter is not to get into gun fights or WVR even. I don't even see how a gun fight could happen given the missiles available today. Even if BVR engagement returns a zero, all-aspect, dual-waveband IIR homing missiles can take out enemy aircraft from far WVR and even near BVR well before a head-to-head pass and there's pretty much no way evading or decoying them. It's like a sniper engaging in hand-to-hand combat, sure they train it, but for it to ever happen, his rifle and side-arm have to prove useless and his Situational Awareness (SA) has to fail big time and the enemy has to not have a gun too. How likely is that? In reality the last NATO gun-kill on a fixed wing aircraft was in 1982 and the even the last NATO dogfights (1991) pre-date the introduction of the AMRAAM. So what we have here is a fairyland situation concocted for development purposes where the F-35 was fighting with both hands behind its back, its ankles tied together and its nuts strapped to its eyes, in terms of flight restrictions, cancellation of advanced SA, for-going the pre-merge engagement and prohibition of LOAL/HOBS/HMCS abilities. Anyway, it seems a pilot logged into another forum and made some helpful corrections on the matter: http://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=27186&p=294475#p294475
  7. Cheers, that one works.
  8. http://breakingdefense.com/2015/07/aegis-ashore-navy-needs-relief-from-land/
  9. ^"Not available in my country."
  10. Plane lands on wrong carrier:
  11. ^Yep:
  12. So was the F-35 still operating with software-imposed g and AoA limitations?
  13. http://aviationweek.com/defense/f-35-flies-against-f-16-basic-fighter-maneuvers
  14. Interesting: Why The "F-35 v F-16" Article Is Garbage | Fighter Sweep http://fightersweep.com/2548/f-35-v-f-16-article-garbage/
  15. Isn't the F-16 limited to 5.5g with drop tanks? If so, how could it possibly out-perform a clean F-35A in a dogfight?
  16. Apparently one of the dates in it is inaccurate too. The first BFM flight against any F-16s happened in April.
  17. http://aviationweek.com/awin-only/boeing-discloses-advanced-missile-tests-will-unveil-other-programs
  18. So, in layman's terms, everyone got shit-faced.:lol:
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