some F35 info

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One of the hang ups during the development was that the UK wanted access to the code so they could integrate UK specific weapons with the F35. This was agreed so there is more to come than the US only weapons displayed.

As far as I am aware, the only missile that isn't being integrate onto the F35 is the Brimstone. This may change as the USA were thinking about purchasing this missile
 
Mentioned by SaparotRob in the Boeing/Canada/Fighter thread:

The real star of Israel's Blue Flag air exercise - Asia Times

Israel conducted its fifth Blue Flag air exercise at the Uvda Air Base in the southern Negev from October 17th until October 28th. A number of countries
asiatimes.com

Scorpius is Israel's new electronic warfare system. It provides a unique capability against air threats including manned and unmanned aircraft, missiles (including air defense missiles), drones and cruise missiles.

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One of the main points of the exercise was to simulate air defenses and learn how to fly against them. Italy and Israel supplied F-35 stealth jets permitting the participants to take advantage of the F-35's superb radar set to fix enemy targets and share those targets with 4th-generation aircraft such as the F-16, the Mirage and the Eurofighter.

The F-35 can act as a flying AWACS (airborne early warning and control system) and also provide electronic countermeasures and radar warning capabilities thanks to its sophisticated AESA (airborne electronically scanned array) radar.

Also, it can share data instantly with other aircraft if they have Link 16 or equivalent onboard systems. Link 16 is a military tactical data link network used by NATO and other nations including Japan and India. India flies Russian, French and British fighter aircraft.

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The result of the exercise is that the F-35 when combined with the Scorpius system offers the possibility of tactical and strategic dominance in the battle area and reduces the threat of counter-stealth systems and beyond-visual-range (BVR) air to air and air defense missiles.

Even if a country lacks the stealthy F-35, it would seem that the Scorpius system offers a way to identify threats at long range and use Scorpius's soft-kill capability to take them out. As such this can be a game-changer even against hypersonic threats.

When equipped with a Scorpius pod under the airframe or supported by a ground- or sea-based Scorpius platform, an older generation aircraft can aggressively respond to long-range threats that depend on radars and other electronics to go after their targets.
 
I think these are the biggest points the anti-F-35 community either don't understand or choose to ignore.
 
I find most of what the Chinese do interesting - there is much to admire - but when the party-press crows on about their new Stealth jet - bastard off-spring from the coupling of a Raptor and some Swedish number - and stresses feature # 1 as "two pilots" I say WTF????

Two pilots better than one? or, more likely Don't trust that much power to just 1 pilot?

It's the old Red pitfall of initiative, IMO. One of the reasons the Germans outfought and beat the crap out of the Soviet forces until 1943.
Reds don't learn easy - what they see before their eyes can't be what's supposed to be. "Can it comrade?".
 
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Riiiight, the good ol US of A don't have any two seat fighter/attack aircraft in their arsenal do they?
 
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