Originally Posted by
a1bill
Lonewolf_50, They are saying that some of the missile defense will be on a UAV and they have a gen 3 laser that will be a UAV.
a1bill, the article cites a test on the
Paul F Foster to be done in 2018: I once landed my helicopter on the
Paul F Foster. It once fired Tomahawks into Iraq, during Desert Storm, but I wasn't on it then. The system for that test is a
shipboard system. The UAV based system is still proposed, which doesn't address the non-trivial systems integration problem for F-35: can they make the bugger small enough to fit it into the correct niche of the Lightning II?
F-35 has plenty of other weapons systems, and associated software, to properly integrate and get working before Buck F
ing Rogers puts on that lovely helmet and flies about with a laser weapon.
Once the test on the
Paul F Foster, in three years, is completed we can revisit this topic in this thread. Until then, can we please get back to the Phunky Phiphth Gen Phighter we've been talking about in this thread?