F-35 first 2 Dutch arrival LIVE event

[Mainstay]

First 2 dutch F-35's will arrive in a few hours.

Stream can be followed live on you tube hosted by the defence department.

 

[Mainstay]

The aircraft are expected to arrive at 20:45 !!!

 

 

****Stream has begun with some promo videos for the F-35****

 

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****Functions and capabilities presentation****

 

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Edited May 23, 2016 by Mainstay

[Mainstay]

The aircraft are arriving now

[HiJack]

Great! They just flew over the airport :)

[tflash]

Great stuff!!! Congrats to the Dutch!

[Mainstay]

[HiJack]

Good event. 4 nice landings :thumbup: Quite windy and a lot of birds :)

[1.JaVA_Platypus]

Finally! :)

 

[Mainstay]

Good event. 4 nice landings :thumbup: Quite windy and a lot of birds :)

 

Yeah crosswinds and the weather was pretty poor today for this period of the year.

Norwegian press was also present since you have ordered a few yourselfs aswell

[HiJack]

I believe the pilots also had a great flight. The F-35 is very comfortable I've heard. They did lift out quite a bit of gear from the cockpit after landing :music_whistling:

 

 

EDIT: Also glad to see the important relationship between Nederland and Norway continues after the F-16 area :thumbup:

https://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/2016/05/23/f-35%E2%80%99s-in-nederland

Edited May 23, 2016 by HiJack

[159th_Falcon]

Now, what I am curious about is at what distance the Dutch LCF frigate picked up the F-35 on its radar.:music_whistling:

 

One of these i mean;

[GeorgeLKMT]

Probably from quite far away considering they had radar reflectors mounted:

 

[QuiGon]

[...]

EDIT: Also glad to see the important relationship between Nederland and Norway continues after the F-16 area :thumbup:

https://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/2016/05/23/f-35%E2%80%99s-in-nederland

 

Not just Norway, but probably also Denmark and eventually Belgium as well. The northern europe F-16 fighter club now turns into an F-35 club. :D

It's nice, because it offers these smaller countries some more possibilities regarding training/deployments through cooperation. :thumbup:

[FlightControl]

Not just Norway, but probably also Denmark and eventually Belgium as well. The northern europe F-16 fighter club now turns into an F-35 club. :D

It's nice, because it offers these smaller countries some more possibilities regarding training/deployments through cooperation. :thumbup:

 

 

 

Yes. The air force of our countries have always played a strategic role in NATO ... Unfortunately, the price of one f-35 would get our budget deficit fixed for this year. ... And playing dcs makes us learn that in a real combat situation these expensive planes won't make the difference...

[Pilotasso]

Our experience as virtual pilots will hardly translate realistically to what the real world pilots would do. We do not fear death by slaloming missiles for starters. :D

 

The F-35 explores the options of having longer range and less support needed.

[159th_Falcon]

Probably from quite far away considering they had radar reflectors mounted:

 

Better don't forget to remove them when its on a stealth mission.

Not that, that will be any time soon......