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Old 28th Jun 2019, 20:10
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Originally Posted by ORAC


The sensor suite is old, because of the protracted delay, and far from modern standards and already contracted to be replaced, the same or better is already planned for other airframes. Yes. Ask the USN......

Ohhh! And the new Ford class carriers won’t be able to operate them till their mid life updates....

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/bu...ve-f-35s-64051

Same old same old. RAF Typhoon targeting [lightning 5?] pods 3+ gen ahead of geriatric F35 standard fit. No Raptor pod, uplinking, brite cloud etc, etc.

Yeah everything's good.
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