Royal Marine Reacts To 10 Reasons the F-35 is Now More Advanced Than You Think
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Remember always that Lockheed-Martin's skunk works is the most advanced designers in the world.
Kelly Johnson was one magnificent bastard
Fun fact, the newest AIM-9X sidewinder missile combined with the F-35's distributed aperture sensors allow the missile to shoot things that are behind the aircraft.
High off-bore sights was a gamechanger
@@ActuallyJamie the new FLIR pods, i forget their name, has a 360deg view and is said to be able to see stealth at up to 30miles and 4th gen out to 100 miles
Hey didnt know if you knew this but recently the F35 has been allowed to and now carry nuclear bombs... imagine 500 of these flying at you with NUKES
The B61-12 is a good package to be able to carry. Being able to drop anything from 0.3-400 kt opens up a lot of potential strategic opportunities. Although obviously the AGM-86, AGM-129, and AGM-181 have some clear advantages.
That’s actually way crazier than people think. This is a stealth fighter… carrying nukes… 😂😂 insane.
@@MrYabber yeah to be honest if you had to do a strike people would not know what hit them. The F-35 could just pop up out of nowhere and the next thing you know mushroom cloud. They would be vulnerable for a bit as they maneuver to drop it as the B61 is a “dumb” payload, but we’re talking like a few seconds reaction time.
I actually live where we manufacture those bombs and I’m often over near where the F-35s roll off the “line”.
The helmet issues have been resolved. Mission capable rates are still lagging.
The advantage to the F15 EX is longer projected lifespan, longer range, higher payload, higher speed, lower projected operating cost and higher projected mission capable rates. The biggest advantage is they can use it to fill the shortfall in F35 production. It isn't really replacing F35A production, it's backstopping it.
In reality it's nice to have both options. Different horses for different courses.
While the F-15EX is more expensive, the employment method is the F-35 finds the 'targets', then the F-15EX (as the bomb/missile truck) whacks them. The F-15EX is an absolute unit in ordinance capability.
It makes sense. The F-35's and F-22's play over watch in more ways than one. They've got both the sensors and the means to scout ahead and find the targets and relay that information to the F-15EX's, but if something's feeling like f*cking around that just might surpass what the F-15EX is capable of, they're never going even notice over watch glaring down on them like the Eye of Sauron just in case they feel like finding out.
F15 EX may be more expensive but the maintenance cost is quite a bit lower. Together with the advantages you have mentioned it allows the US to field a larger airforce than if it was only f22 and f35
@@walkingtree6732 And the air frame of the F15ex is far more durable in terms of the lifetime flight hours. 20,000 flight hours on a 15ex, 8000hr on a 35. So they cost a bit more for the 15ex (now... as economies of scale increase and even more countries start buying them it's going to come down quite a bit) but if you look at it as cost per 1000 flight hour, the 15ex is around $4mil/1000fh, compared to 9.75mil/1000fh for the 35.
But it makes sense that you'd need a far more durable air frame given the F-15's get scrambled more than once per day on average in South China Sea, etc as it's mainly used to defend air space and bases on foreign soil, a role not relegated to the 35 as far as I know.
A big thing to remember about cost of aircrafts is that a large amount of the cost is development and creating the machines/factories for fabrication.
Whether you make 10 or 1000 aircrafts this cost remains relatively the same but you spread it out amount more aircrafts.
This is why the F-22 and B-2 have such high per unit costs because so few were made for the amount of intital development and manufacturing.
Also keeping old tech alive isn't cheap as the industry and technical expertise are lost over time as commercial tech improves. Few people know much about vector based display technology which is what is used on older fighters so you have to know train people about it over just grabbing people from commercial sectors. It's gonna be easier and cheaper for to make a Iphone 13 today than a IBM PC from the 80s.
You can make the IBM PC easily enough, as long as you don't let anybody look inside the case (where you stick a raspberry pi running an emulator, and a brick for added weight). Honestly the keyboard is the hardest part, followed by the monitor.
But that approach won't work for everything. Try finding a facility that can produce battleship armor, or 16-inch guns, at this point. Good luck.
F 35 , goes unnoticed until it gets you.
F15 ,here I am ,what ya gonna do about it?
F22, where the f did that come from ?oops it got me.
Vertical takeoff is possible because of thrust vectoring. Basically, some planes have to ability to adjust the direction their engines are pointing, without affecting volume of thrust. One of the most well known versions of this are the Harrier jet series, which have they’re exhaust ports mounted under their wings, and can be clearly seen turning when thrust vectoring is engaged
They cannot position the depot repair stations until they know which countries are purchasing the F35s.
Yea the B has the worse performance as weight and space are taken up by the turbofan. The A can withstand the most Gs over an extended period of time as it has more streamlined wings. While because of the bulkier wings to get to land at lower speeds on a carrier the C model carries the most fuel and has the best range.
The primary advantages of 4th generation are cost to operate and weapons load.
In a permissive environment that’s ok… but in a high threat environment the additional awareness provided by the F-35 is unsurpassed. The battle management capabilities of the F-35 allow the pilots to think tactically rather than simply operate the aircraft.
6:25 that’s the point I make when the US vs China discussion pops up. China does not have competition between defense companies like the United States does.
I recommend watching the video The Insane Engineering of the f-35b by Real Engineering. It explains the vertical landing really well and the production quality is top notch
The air force, wanting to keep the f15x program front and center, tells me there is more going on behind the scenes.
I want the BRRRRRRRPRPPPP as a ringtone.
There are 3 versions of the F35, A,B, and C. A is the one the USAF has, The B is the USMC and is the VTOL version and the C is for USN, it is reinforced for carrier use.
I've seen some of the B's practicing carrier landings so I'm wondering what the difference in use of the B and C are if you know?
@Montwizzle the B has the ability to land like a normal plane, or it can swivel the engine, open other ports and take off like a harrier. The planes all have different performance with A being best perfotming , C bring next but due to being built heavier to account for the strain of carrier landings being present, and the B being ladt due to even more weight due to ducting etc to allow for VTOL operation. All are still excellent.
Great post...though I believe that the F-35C is superior to the A or B in range and maximum payload as a result of having a slightly larger wing than the other two. So it is not just the heavier landing gear and reinforcement for carrier landings.👍
@@unclebuck4er467 Yea the B has the worse performance as weight and space are taken up by the turbofan. The A can withstand the most Gs over an extended period of time as it has more streamlined wings. While because of the bulkier wings to get to land at lower speeds on a carrier the C model carries the most fuel and has the best range.
@@iKvetch558 B has the same larger wings but much less range as a lot of space is taken up. They have the larger wings to land at lower speeds needed for carrier operations.
In Top Gun Maverick, they had to make an excuse for not using the F-35. F-35 pilots, after viewing the movie, said “What’s the big deal, we train for this every day.” You can’t see it approaching, you can’t hear it until it’s gone, and it can now carry nukes.
I’ve seen one flying in person at a Blue Angels Air Show in Idaho and it was absolutely amazing to watch and hear.
David Lister Photography has some amazing shots on his social media pages of this plane & several others. If you love these planes, you definitely need to see his work, he's been at the right place at the right time more than once. Some shots are of the F-35A with Major Kristin "Beo" Wolfe (she's not the first female to fly an F-35, that would be Col. Christine Mau,) but his pics of all of the planes are sooo good.
There are a few videos on the VTOL F35. Last one I saw stated the engine has a drive shaft on the nose of the engine which drives a fan. A hatch opens up behind the pilot and below, the exhaust nozzle swivels down and power is applied.
If you want to see an F-35 in action, just head on over to RAF Marham. The UK has at least four of their own F-35B's stationed there.
35 crewcheif here. Yes parts have become easier to get, BUT sometimes still have issues getting certain parts
American taxpayer here. If the cost of these beasts is still in the million range (with an "m") as opposed to something with a "b" in the price tag. I am happy. Slightly less pain at on
April 15. Just slightly.
People see the massive price tag but don't account for that fact that it is 3 different aircraft in 1 and that cost is spread out over nearly 50 years as it accounts for 50 years of spending on them.
@@n3v3rforgott3n9 My post expressed relefi that the plane didn't cost more. My husband and I run a small business that employs five other people. Our total tax hit (federal and state) is about 30%, that doesn't include property tax on our house. We are not Elon Musk but, still, at least one dollar out of three goes to the government.
you should watch a video by red wrench films called the myth of the f 35 it covers how its actually multiple variants/aircraft all just called the f 35. much love from the US
There is a documentary on the competition between Boeing and Lockheed Martin PBS did many years ago.
I was actually able to get hands on with the F135 engine a few years ago. I work for the company that builds jet engine test facilities for the USAF. As an aircraft enthusiast, it was an amazing experience. To answer your question about how it take off vertically, the exhaust nozzle actually rotates 90 degrees downwards to direct the thrust down. Additionally, there is a shaft driven fan just behind the cockpit that also provides downward thrust. These two sources provide the bulk of the downward thrust. There is also a duct at the tip of each wing that allows the pilot to control roll during vertical takeoff. The only variant of the F35 that has vertical takeoff capabilities is the F35 B which is operated by the United States Marine Corps.
The vertical take off uses a duct system.
There's a flap on top of the fuselage that opens so it can draw air and divert it to the vectoring nozzles which are pointed downward.
id really reccomend you go to RIAT, its the largest military airshow on the planet and its at RAF fairford in gloustershire, book some tickets i think it should be on this july. i go almost every year when i can. the f35 was also the jet that encouraged me to join the fleet air arm as a aircraft handler, its such an advanced peice of kit and is amazing to see fly
To give you some better understanding of both the different models, and the F-35B in real simple basic terms:
The A model, being conventional takeoff and landing variant for air forces is the base model that the others are derived from. It is a runway queen that can only safely takeoff and land at runways. Skipping over to the C model, it has a dual wheel nose gear, beefed landing gear over the A model, and a slightly larger wing with folding tips. These larger wings can hold additional fuel over the A model, as well as lower the stall speed of the airframe. A lower stall speed is important for landing on carriers in case you miss the wires or a wire snaps you can still get airborne and come around for a second attempt. The B model had to have a lot of design compromises for its capability to do its short/vertical takeoff and landings. Borrowing from a Soviet idea prototyped in the YAK-141, the rear section and afterburner pivots straight down or at an angle for short takeoffs. Then behind the pilot is a lift fan powered by the engine through a drive shaft. When you see the hatches open up behind the pilot, you know this is a B model about to do some vertical flight. The fan and drive shaft add weight and complexity to the design as well as take up space. The space taken up by this lift system reduces fuel capacity (which translates to range) and the weapons bays are also slightly shorter than the other models. The A model is the most common one produced and most bought one on the export market. The B model comes in second in use with the USMC, the UK, and being considered by other countries for use on amphibious helicopter ships like Italy, South Korea, Japan, and Australia. The C model is the least produced because it is made for super carriers with a CATOBAR (Catapult Assisted TakeOff, Barrier assisted Arrested Landing). Currently only the US Navy (and a few USMC squadrons) will have the C model, however it could land on France’s Charles De Gaulle carrier. France being the only other country besides the US currently using CATOBAR on their carrier. China is building that capability currently, however we would not sell it to them.
The DOD along with Air Force, Marines, and Navy all wanted a plane with this capability. The Air Force has a land base version; the Navy has a regular aircraft for their carriers; the Marines have a vertical takeoff/landing version for their helicopter carrier ships. It might have been a bad decision at the beginning, but its a great decision now.
Once those missiles were hung on the wings the stealth advantage is removed.
Not a fan of the F35, but TBF the plane was designed to be stealth when necessary and to be able to do air to ground work when stealth isn’t necessary.
The f35B is the one that can lift off vertically. If I remember correctly, it’s more so a marine requested version so they can take off from anywhere without a runway but when the engine points down to lift off, it burns so damn hot they need an extra layer of metal or something underneath so that it doesn’t burn a hole into the world.
The F/A-18 is more maneuverable and had some better weapons packages than the F-35. So in a pure air-to-air combat perspective the 18’s could have some significant advantages; however that’s assuming you discount stealth and the first strike advantage. The idea being that the lower maneuverability doesn’t matter much if your enemy can’t find you in the first place.
The F-14 of course has one main advantage over the F-35. Speed. The F-14 would win without a doubt in a pure drag race. But all of its technology is way behind.
The F-16 also can match or slightly outperform the F-35 in a dogfight (not taking into account stealth). However the F-35 weapons and avionics are just easier to use and give the pilots much less stress when flying, navigating, evading, and shooting.
So I could see some pilots missing some aspects of their previous equipment, but not to any heavy degree.
The development and production process for the F-35 was a complete disaster, but after being long overdue they finally created what it was supposed to be.
Hey, Hill Air Force Base is generally near me. I mean near me is more in the US colloquial terms. I can drive there in about 20-30 minutes. It checks out. We have F-35's, F-22's, F-15's and A-10's stationed there. My family has a small amount of history there, my uncle was (he's since retired) the Brigadier General over Hill Air Force Base over the Utah National Air Guard for the last bit of his military career. It doesn't mean anything, it's not like I get to waltz in there and they let me go. It's just fun to be able to go to their museum and know that next door is where my uncle was managing the air (so to say.)
The main things about the F-35 that can be faulted with it is that it's a multi role fighter, meaning it's a jack-of-all-trades master-of-none plane, and while the cost per unit is dropping, the development cost has exploded beyond initial estimates. It was first proposed as a $200B project. It's now estimated that during it's entire lifetime, the whole thing will cost $1.7 trillion. But the financial politics aside, the capabilities of the fighter is usually what turns me away from it. It's acclaimed to be the perfect replacement for the A-10, the F-15, the F-16, the F-18, the S-3 Viking, the F-22, and basically ever other fighter/bomber/ground attack/ aerial support role aircraft out there. Which is great, but it's a "Swiss Army Knife" and I don't know the last time you tried hammering a nail in with a Swiss Army Knife, but it CAN work it just doesn't work as well as a hammer.
It's not that I hate the F-35, it's just that the US Military is trying to treat it like some panacea/silver bullet, but it's just a machine that's able to do those various things. It's not capable of doing those things as well as the aircrafts specifically designed to do that one thing. The common one is that "the F-35 can and will replace the A-10 so we need to get rid of the A-10's!!!" maybe, but F-35's can't take a hit, they can't loiter as long, and they don't announce their presence quite like the A-10 does which is about 2/3rds it's effect. It's a decent tag team partner with the F-22, but there's just certain things that it can "dabble" in, but in no way can fully replace the old stock in what it does. That may be not the plan the top brass has, but that's sure the idea I get whenever I hear them say it.
I have 2 family members that work for Lockheed Martin!
The f35 comes in three variants, the A, which the one this video focuses on, the B, which is the variant that can take off and vertical, and the C, which is made for Naval operations on carrier. The A can’t take off vertically or land on the ship.
12:20 that shot is even cooler with context. A flight of F-35s is escorting a B-52. A strategic bomber that first flew in 1952. I dunno if you did a video on the B-52 yet, but you should. Its slated to be the first aircraft ever to serve 100 years
edit: there's more than 3 variants of the F-35. The A, B, and C are the main variants but there is an i variant that the Israelis have and that variant is specially made for the needs of the Israelis
F-22’s got the looks, speed, and maneuverability.
The F-35 has got good looks, and is a flying supercomputer with heated seats.
Also the F-15EX can carry and fire 22 Missiles
Real engineering's video on the f35b covers the VTOL capabilities of the f35
The F-35 hovers by rotating its afterburner downward and opening thrust vents on its fuselage. With this, all of its thrust can be directed downward.
3 variants of the F-35.
1. F-35A is US Air Force conventional land based takeoff and landing only.
2. F-35B is US Navy conventional take off and landing only but on land and ship.
3. F-35C US Marines short takeoff and vertical landing for land and ship based operations.
Ship based ops require more robust undercarriages, landing gear and LSO avionics.
USMC variant has two major differences that enable vertical landings.
1. Vectored thrust
2. Vertical fan in front of the engine moves huge volumes of air from above the fuselage down through the airframe and out the bottom.
Switch the B & C variants.
America is pretty open for the most part when it comes down to info on american aircraft, ships, and weapons it shares like 80-90% of the weapon systems stats ect.
f35 d can take off vertically cause its exhaust rotates down in the rear while doors open on top and underneath pushing air down and then the rear nozzle can slowly rotate and fly forward.
The correct saying is you're no the sharpest tool in the shed.
The F-35 variants are easy to recall A is the normal variant, B is the short takeoff / vertical landing (lands like a Brick or Bird depending on who is flying), and C stands for Carrier take off and landing.
ALIS/ODIN is everything from a diagnostic/test/tuning system to managing service training reference materials, service bulletins, distance based assistance in maintenance, part management, service management, etc. (I.e. if you’re servicing an F-35 this is the platform for that work).
The last main GAO report was March of 2023 and the analysis/recommendations were developed in September 2023. So you’re not going to see much of a status update on parts and depots for about another 7 months or so for the GAO to compile and release an early 2024 update. As of March 2023 they were at 55% of current delivered fleet support capacity (meaning we can currently fly about 55% of the fleet we have) and 73% of all replacements and service parts had to go back to Fort Worth as depot capacity was not available. The deadline to take over parts service operations fully is projected at 2027 but it’s likely that number will change in this year or next years projections.
In January they announced Tech Refresh 3 (planned to have started) is now delayed till at least 3rd quarter 2024). Expected delivery rates were reduced from the 2023 projection of 150/yr to about 75-110/year. Block 4 enhancements are likely to be delayed as resources are still working on the software refresh developments)
Just so you know for the future, aircraft programs really can’t really restart. There are only so many sub suppliers that can supply into the aircraft world and getting new sub suppliers approved to make anything is an expensive process (lots of man hours , testing and production scrap). Even just trying to get the same sub supplier to restart a program have huge costs because those sub suppliers replace machines and change processes to make new program parts.
Some great channels for WW II, as well as other military history are the Dark Skies, Dark Seas, and Dark Files channels. Relatively short videos, packed with information, with no bias in the delivery.
As a stand alone the F-35 is impressive but when combined with the F-15EX as a team is a dilema. The military doesnt want to give its enemy's problems... it wants to give them dilemas. A problem has at least one solution a dilema has two or more solutions but none of them are good.
Yes but it will soon get it's loyal wingman( ghost bat ) systems, I think it is getting Two for every F35 then it becomes a different animal altogether and not really talked about but probably why everyone is going for them.
The US has fielded many harrier jump jets with vertical takeoff.
Check out " the insane engineering of the F-35B ", it explains vertically taking off.
Fun fact: if you remove government mismanagement of defense funds, the us military could be twice as big for the same cost
The price comparison doesn't work. Because the fact that more are on order means that the unit price is smaller.
There are three variants for the F-35
The F-35A is the US Air Force version.
The F-35B is the US Marines version, this is the one with vertical take off and landing capability.
The F-35C is the US Navy version, capable for launching and landing on aircraft carriers, it has a lot stronger landing gear required to handle the hard landings on a carrier, and can handle the stress of catapult launches.
This channel has pretty good good videos. He gets his information from any of the dozens of Military industrial channels and publications, reports to congress that are open source etc. My favorite channel for aircraft info is Sandboxx. Alex Hollings Airpower is super informative and more current. He's constantly putting out new videos when new information becomes publicly released. I would recommend checking him out, I've been subbed to his channel for a long time.
'you're not gonna find that information in other videos', ahhh, yes you are, and Alex Hollings is better.
Yea the B has the worse performance as weight and space are taken up by the turbofan. The A can withstand the most Gs over an extended period of time as it has more streamlined wings. While because of the bulkier wings to get to land at lower speeds on a carrier the C model carries the most fuel and has the best range.
@@n3v3rforgott3n9 ... yet they all have, exceptional situational awareness, and can fight well above their weight.
You mentioned a comparison with older aircraft. The F-15 has been around since 1976 & is still in service. PLUS an F-15 has never been shot down. Very fast & maneuverable airplane.
You should check out the AV-8B Harrier I believe your marines retired theirs recently but it was always a show stopper at the Toronto airshow when I was a kid seeing it hover over the lake then take off like a bat out of hell I believe I was about 5 when I first saw it so around 1987
A variant air force, B variant USMC possibly on LHD wasp, and C variant for Navy air craft carriers
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WOW!!
That price is insane!!
But in a way it makes me nervous in that the cheapest bid wins.
8:12 - STOVL (Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing) is achieved via the rotating engine nozzle along with a lifting fan behind the cockpit: the nozzle rotates 90 degrees downward, and large doors open on the bottom and top of the fuselage just behind the cockpit, exposing the lifting fan. The lifting fan is engaged with the engine. It's important to note that the F-35 isn't VTOL as it isn't designed to take off vertically; however, it is capable of taking off in a very short distance (like taking off of a carrier without the use of the catapult). You can find a FANTASTIC VIDEO of short takeoffs and landings here:
czcams.com/video/hO5mZxaiyUQ/video.html
It seems cool and all, and it's certainly cool to watch, but one of the ways aircraft are prevented from entering the fight is by destroying the runway. Here, we have a highly advanced, stealth aircraft that almost doesn't need a runway to take off and doesn't need on at all to land... pretty darned cool!
Ever have a touch screen not take an impute for what ever reason, how frustrating it is, now imagine you life depends on it. A switch is proven to work under the stress a fighter operates in.
Look into thrust vectoring
As of April 2023, the F-35 program had activated (i.e., had the capability to repair) 44 of the 68 workloads at six different military service depots
Sandboxx has some great videos with regards to lockheed
I mean, that was a few reasons why the f35 is more advanced than you think, and a few reasons its systems are having issues.
B variant is the VTOL version...
Fun fact: most parts are made in Puerto Rico
As others have stated the F35 can't handle the payload of a F-15EX
My sons, a US marine that flies out 35 Charlie. He’s stationed at Miramar in San Diego at VMFA 314. They’re pretty busy on work ups for deployment. But if you ever wanted to do an interview style video, he would probably agree to an interview. Or someone at the command would.
My Uncle worked on the F-35 for the government testing it before it went into service. He told me that the pilots can flip a switch for there helmet and the plane disappears from vision and they can see all around them without the physical jet getting in the way. They have cameras all around the jet and they all feed into the helmet. My Uncle said it was hard at the beginning for the pilots to get used to this and it made them all sick at first.
The main reason the price went down is NATO buying it. Allies that is. The F22 was is restricted. No, we wouldn't share. The F35 was designed knowing we would offer it to allies if they wanted to buy it. If you took a factory to make 30 planes those 30 planes are going to have to absorb all the costs, where if you can make and sell 3000 well... You get the point.
Price inflation is relevant for well-established goods and services, but bleeding-edge technology always comes at a high price premium at first, and that erodes over time. Additionally, when the quantity of a manufactured good being produced increases dramatically, economies of scale start to kick in.
The three major variants of the F-35 (A, B, C) were a necessary compromise in order to allow the program to complete and produce useful aircraft. The original mandate for the JSF program was to produce a single aircraft that could meet everybody's needs, which was of course impractical, but it took the engineers a while to convince the higher-ups to compromise on it. (This is one of the major reasons the program experienced so many delays.) Three variants of one aircraft is still (logistically speaking) better than three entirely distinct aircraft, because they share a lot of parts in common, so it ended up being a good compromise.
The other compromise they had to make, which *everyone* should have been able to see coming a mile away, is that the F-35 does not attempt to do CAS. It does strikes, but it doesn't shadow ground troops for hours at a time. Nothing fast enough to be an air superiority fighter, can fly slow enough for long enough to be any good at that role; and also, fighters are too expensive (and too expensive to fly) to use for CAS work routinely. The fact that the funding for a newer CAS aircraft was ill-advisedly rolled into the JSF program, is why we still have the (rather old at this point) A-10 in service. After it became extremely clear even to the most hard-headed idiots that the JSF program would not in fact deliver a successor, the A-10 has received some upgrades (newer electronics and stuff) to kick the can down a road a bit; I suspect it will eventually be replaced with drones, because drones are new technology, which makes them "cool" enough that the air force brass are not as averse to funding development of them. Of course, there are also helicopters, which are great for CAS in less contested environments, but they're more vulnerable to small arms fire from enemy ground troops, than the A-10. The Apache is tanky compared to other helicopters, but it's not the A-10, which can even handle a certain amount of enemy AA fire without needing to leave the ground troops and save its own skin.
Oohhh, I was awake for this release 🤣
This is MENTAL! hahaha
The F22 doesnt have modular tech it's old not really designed for upgrades where as the F35 has modular tech it can be easily upgraded
Here is what you can go on with why the F22 is still the best. The F22 had a law passed to keep if from being exported to anyone. While the F35 has gone to everyone, which is why the cost has dropped.
F22 has a smaller radar signature than the F35. The thinking within the AF is that every fight will be at distance and not up close and personal. The F35 in a classic dogfight is beaten by most 4th Gen fighters today.
I am still not sold on the F35 being the best plane in the world.
The US is buying 100 or so F15 EX IIs. Partly politics, partly to keep the F15 line open, and partly because the F-35 production for all its customers couldn't meet the US needs in the mid-term, causing a fighter #s gap. The F-15 costs more, in part, because the production numbers are smallish compared to the F-35. The F-15 EX II can carry a crap ton of armament, and is still a premium air superiority fighter in permissive environments, such as in protecting the homeland. The F-35 in non-stealth Beast Mode can carry a lot too, but if a wave of Russian bombers comes to the US, the F-15 in many ways is a better interceptor than th F-35, when stealth isn't a factor. It can go nearly Mach 3 and the F-35 can't, and it climbs faster, so it can get up to the intercept point much quicker. Let's not forget the F-15 is undefeated at 106-0.
This is not the F35 film i was hoping for.
I wanted more about performance and less about contract details
Quick add on. There is 1 other varient for the f35 called the f35 I Adir that is exclusively for the Israeli airforce. Isreal is the only partner nation that has free reign over upgrades on the f35 without altering thd existing infrastructure
Are u Brits even allowed to have sharp knives in your drawers? Hehe. I jest..... another great video bro
F22 is more advanced. That's why we don't sell them
It's actually not. The F22 has better stealth and maneuverability. But as for being more advanced f35 all the way. The f35 can even fire a missile 360 degrees around it. It can do data linking. Lock onto a target and have another jet fire a missile for it. F35 is way more advanced than the F22.
Cost per plane is a misleading figure and depends on context. It depends on the ammount of total aircraft manufactured. The more you do the lower the per unit cost drops over time. The thing that kills economies of scale is exclusive suppliers, with companies competing on subsystem manufacturing the cost is kept down.
Also the fact the F35 doesn't need a targeting pod or EW pods.
I still think I’d rather fly the f15 EX super eagle with the new long range missiles they have coming out.
You should check out Sandbox News hosted by a guy named Alex Hollings. Hes one of the best sources of Info on US planes
Facts!!!!! He's really good.
Aren't they claim now the F-35 is actually better than the f22 and is the only plain to be able to take down the f22. Also that's recent and they say the block 4 upgrades make it better
Wow! That's an expensive coffin, bro! Lol!🤣
Pilots complains to hypoxia, about 40 episodes counted. One plane crashed because of this in may 2020. The pilot managed to escape. Several machines crashed due to software failures. There were also problems with the display of the split helmet, which itself costs like a sports car: 400 thousand dollars. And according to the testing pilots touch sensitive dashboard in the cockpit in 20% of cases did not respond to clicks. Huge disaster actually. Congrats Lockheed-Martin!😂 And that's all after 20 years of production!
It’s so “cheap” right now because we make so many. The more we make the more the price comes down. The euro fighter is so expensive because they only make a couple hundreds. We’re planning on making thousands of f35s
Exactly... The 1000th F-35 was delivered to the end customer not too long ago, and serial production is not slacking. Hell, the F-15 and F-16 are still in production, and they're 4th gen fighters from the 70s and 80s.
NGAD is going to be lit, tho.
That and a lot of the tech used on the F-22 was solely kept in the US whereas the F-35 has been sold to plenty of allied nations. Unfortunately defective ones (largely to Australia) which have given it a stigma attached to its name.
I was hoping for more videos on the f-35.
I think he just talks to pilots he might be ex air force or something who knows
The way the F-35 (B variant) for carrier use, has a fan that opens up under the cockpit and uses thrust vectoring to point the rear nozzle downwards for VTOL and also uses just the fan for STOL on carrier takeoffs. Really cool to watch. The technology was basically adapted from the Harrier, using fly-by-wire.
You need to give us a take on helldivers man
The ultimate corpo fighter
Not the sharpest tool in the shed? Lol 😆 The F-35-B that takes off vertically has a flap on the top that opens and it brings in air through the top and it blows off the deck or runway and is able to use the back engine to go forward once it gets to a certain altitude (no idea how high it can lift vertically before it has to go forward or how long it can hover) My family has a house on a river across from Cherry Pt. Marine Corps Air Station so we get to see alot of different Marine Corps Aircraft takeoff and land about 2.5 miles away from us. It can get quite loud but is amazing to watch.
Nice video
105-120 depots will be running this year so rate should increase to plus 90% readiness
Sharpest tool in the shed :) Ya video is old. bugs were worked out and it is deployed to forward now. F-35C is the Navy version..carrier one.
Demand has been sky high, pardon the pun. Those economies of scale lower costs/prices, but it's hard for production to keep up. The wait lines are long, esp. for those who snoozed before ordering -- looking at you, Canada.
The US doesn't care about most of the specs of the aircrafts but things like the Rader and some computer systems there will have no specific info and measurements for these things.
The main reason for the low price might be the large number of f-35 that should be build. A lot of countries ordered F-35 as far as I know. Germany ordered some, Poland, ... A lot of countries inside NATO ordered which reduces the price. Just imagine the cost of development. And it is a big difference if you divide it by 100 planes sold or 1000 planes sold ... But my view might be wrong because I am not an expert in this field. It is just something I heared and that sounds logical to me.
I got to see 4 USMC F-35B's last June at my local airport that showed up for a couple of hours. They are super cool to see although I'll warn you, they might be the loudest fighter jet I have ever heard!
Living near an AFB, I concur that they are the loudest
theres a veey in depth video on the f35 called insane engeneering of the f35 def react to it