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Originally posted by SteveDaPirate View PostI think the timing is such that the 6th gen fighter program will be kicking off production about the time that the F-35 and KC-46 are over the hump and the B-21 is at IOC.
Originally posted by SteveDaPirate View PostI'll believe it when I see it.
eg the majority of danger close CAS to SOCOM and sister allied SOF have been done by B1's and B52's
Forget the USAF 3 star we saw, but he made it pretty clear that the objective is to have any platform able to support, to do that support
if you look at JSF and its ability to handoff, it means that it can do the ISR and vector in anything with an SDB, PGM or the like - and anything with Link22 can join in. That means ships, tanks and arty (where the arty is wired up for Link22)
its a bit more detailed than that, but not sure I'm in a position to expand in here.
if you look at afghanistan as an example, the majority of SF support has been by high flyers, rotary or within pre-mapped interlocking arty from different ISAF elements. The bulk of those support missions would not have been served any better if at all by A10's. CREF my prev re B1's and B52's doing danger close support with PGM's
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Originally posted by citanon View PostEngine, stealth coatings, internal structure for improved manufacturability, improved signature management, more apertures for sensors, redesigning the cockpit for the f35s helmet, etc
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Originally posted by jlvfr View Post
As for any new foreign aircraft... since they allready have the stealthy F-35, and are building the F-3 (also with stealth features) do they even need a third stealth aircraft?Last edited by gf0012-aust; 16 Jul 16,, 23:41.
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Originally posted by Stitch View PostIIRC, Japan was on the short list of countries originally interested in purchasing the F-22, along with Australia and Israel; here's a good (but older) "white paper" on the subject: https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RS22684.pdf
RAAF did an internal evaluation anyway due to local political hysteria about JSF and rejected it for a number of reasons.
I can't see any compelling reason for getting a magnificent asset if it ends up buggering up our force balance and budget.
They're hardly necessary when you look at our region and you look at the C4/C5/ISR/INT we have in place
australia like everyone else runs combat capability scenarios across various military threats even the absurd... I cannot see any compelling reason where an F-22 would make any difference for us.
Japan OTOH - but even then there are things that JSF brings to the table that they wish they had designed into the F-22. Its just not architecturally simple to achieve and you really have to question whether you want to ingest that huge engineering chore when the F-22 will struggle to do a lot of the 6th gen capability being looked at.
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Originally posted by gf0012-aust View Post
CAS is capability issue, not a platform issue.
And thats a hard job. No matter how many Power Point briefings you give about how everyone does CAS/Danger Close on the modern battlefield, not just the A-10, Someone will post a video of the A-10 doing a gun run. Then their eyes will glaze over. And they are convinced that they know what the military needs damn the facts.
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