Roundel looks stupid on F35

[Buster Hyman]

Perhaps a silhouette of the Queen would be distinctive? Works on the coins...

[Martin the Martian]

Serious thought. Could this lead to the consideration of a more distinctive shape for a national marking? Quite frankly, this aircraft could belong to any one of a number of air forces.

[glad rag]

Originally Posted by 163627

I wonder if 809 NAS will be allowed to have "Royal Navy" on their squadron's aircraft?

Wouldn't put it past them, then the taxpayer can pick up the tab for reinstating the "stealth" conductive coatings....

[Lonewolf_50]

Originally Posted by XR219

Presumably, the monochrome insignia is because they only make the F-35's magic radar-absorbing paint in two shades of grey?

I think you'll find that in Fed Standard 595C, there are about fifty shades of gray available to choose from.

[Coltishall. loved it]

I think you will see that once that "steps access panel" is closed, you
will see a tiny "2" above the "0" ...makes sense. If you can't paint it red white and blue, get some add revenue out of it!

[taxydual]

Perhaps another point of view.

The F35 looks stupid on the roundel.........






Hat, coat etc

[Biggus]

taxydual,

Isn't that pretty much what post 5 said?

[longer ron]

Not much to worry about - they will be spending much of their time in the maintenance hangar - either here or in turkey - come to think of it - with this 'aircart' - going to turkey for maintenance actually makes sense

[CoffmanStarter]

Such national ident frippery is redundant once the Klingon Cloaking Device is activated

[Finnpog]

Any colour you want... As long as it's grey?

[taxydual]

Biggus, you're right.

Egg (again) on my face.

Must engage brain before operating keyboards.

[ShotOne]

"This roundel could belong to any number of nations..." Dead right. Indeed it more closely resembles Argentinan Air Force insignia than anything of ours. No doubt the "toning down" is very important. But does there come a point where we'd simply be better off without?

[BBadanov]

"But does there come a point where we'd simply be better off without?"


There are, of course, international regulations on the need for military aircraft to have national markings.


But the "baby" blue and "gay" pink roundel would look better - and more identifiable - than a grey disk.

[chopper2004]

dutch

The Dutch 35s have grey roundel but it's distinctive, however they have the same grey roundel on their new CH-47F...and funnily enough they are painted grey and not green camouflage...

Although wondering when're ShotOne' s suggestion of removing roudel, guess it would not be a problem by rules of war, if Royal Air Force was stencilled across ?

Cheers and Happy Friday 13th

[Willard Whyte]

"This roundel could belong to any number of nations..." Dead right. Indeed it more closely resembles Argentinan Air Force insignia than anything of ours.

Or, for that matter, El Salvador



Greece



or Finland

[XR219]

The baby blue/pink roundel was intended to reduce contrast against light grey camouflage. Good old Post Office Red and Roundel Blue would be more appropriate for the F-35's FS36170 Camouflage Gray.

Incidentally, one does wonder why the white ring wasn't re-introduced with the baby blue and pink, since the original reason for deleting it was no longer there...

[MSOCS]

This has got to be the most boring thread going. Mods, can you move this to the train spotters section please..

I mean, seriously, you're now debating paint jobs?

Hahahahaha.

[Martin the Martian]

So why did you bother to read it all the way through?

[MSOCS]

I didn't.

If you notice, you can go straight to the latest page.

finger..pulse...

[salad-dodger]

How do know it's boring then? There may be some very insightful and witty discussion on the first page.

It is by the way (boring), and no there isn't.

S-D