F-35 Cancelled, then what ?
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Tony Osborne has a piece in today's Aerospace Daily & Defense Report reflecting a lot of what Jackonicko says at post #11541.
Questions Surround UK F-35 Month-Long Flying Break Defense content from Aviation Week
He also poses questions about maintaining currency, which
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Questions Surround UK F-35 Month-Long Flying Break Defense content from Aviation Week
He also poses questions about maintaining currency, which
can be done in the high-fidelity simulators. But none of these are yet operational in the Integrated Training Center (ITC) being constructed at RAF Marham,
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And on the same day that the article above appears, the MoD announces
- referring to the first F-35B flight with MBDA ASRAAMs
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/b...s-to-the-skies
But it seems from the pictures that ASRAAMS can only be carried externally. Does that make MoD's reference to
a bit optimistic?
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British-armed F-35B Lightning jet takes to the skies
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/b...s-to-the-skies
But it seems from the pictures that ASRAAMS can only be carried externally. Does that make MoD's reference to
Britain's new stealth fighter
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“We have had to move them across from the American electronic servers across to ours, and do all of the data checks and make sure all of the data is there from an airworthiness perspective, to then verify those and accept them on to the squadron,” he said.
"None of it is anything that we didn’t plan for in terms of contingency, so we have been working through those in a methodical fashion to make sure that we can get the jets into a serviceable state to take them flying in a safe manner.”
“We have had some bits of missing data during that transfer, so we have been working through that.
"None of it is anything that we didn’t plan for in terms of contingency, so we have been working through those in a methodical fashion to make sure that we can get the jets into a serviceable state to take them flying in a safe manner.”
“We have had some bits of missing data during that transfer, so we have been working through that.
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Originally Posted by airsound
And on the same day that the article above appears, the MoD announces - referring to the first F-35B flight with MBDA ASRAAMs
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/b...s-to-the-skies
But it seems from the pictures that ASRAAMS can only be carried externally. Does that make MoD's reference to a bit optimistic?
airsound
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/b...s-to-the-skies
But it seems from the pictures that ASRAAMS can only be carried externally. Does that make MoD's reference to a bit optimistic?
airsound
https://u0v052dm9wl3gxo0y3lx0u44wz-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/F-35-Weapons-Integration-ASRAAM.jpg
From
https://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/uk-co...issile-asraam/
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How much does the helmet cost again?
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a22877042/navy-f35-helmet-bug/
"The solution involves swapping out the current helmet mounted displays and replacing them with organic, light emitting diodes (OLEDs)."
ROFL
"The solution involves swapping out the current helmet mounted displays and replacing them with organic, light emitting diodes (OLEDs)."
ROFL
