tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post6451936426073012524..comments2024-03-18T21:55:56.412-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Government's Own F-35 Report Demolishes Myth of F-35 SuperiorityThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-40834438826511092242014-12-12T06:28:28.718-08:002014-12-12T06:28:28.718-08:00I've seen commercial jets flying through so-ca...I've seen commercial jets flying through so-called 'practice zones', where we would perform stalls and spins. My father told me he (and his colleagues) saw flocks of geese flying between twenty and thirty thousand feet.<br /><br />Will there be accidents? Will there be bird-strikes? Absolutely.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-32696583103204608872014-12-12T02:28:16.434-08:002014-12-12T02:28:16.434-08:00F-35 a joke right not left it is hard being a cent...F-35 a joke right not left it is hard being a centrist...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17868396408359306954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-6580029680717022432014-12-11T19:29:44.976-08:002014-12-11T19:29:44.976-08:00I can agree with some of your points, Anon. As St...I can agree with some of your points, Anon. As Stalin said, quantity is a quality of its own. I don't know about the future of manned combat aviation, however. As for offensive bombing, the Russians are developing some significant, long-range cruise missiles that can be fired, en masse, from behind the forward edge of the battle space in numbers that will overwhelm the defenders. As long as enough get through, overall losses are almost irrelevant. With manned aircraft even continued moderate losses are considered unsustainable.<br /><br />It's one of the great failings of the F-35 that it requires its support aircraft - such as tankers and AWACS - to be brought to the front where they're entirely vulnerable to fast, long-range interceptors. Their presence also advertises the presence of a stealth strike attack. The defender's stealth fighters are more effective than the attacker's because they rely on less vulnerable ground support and have the home field, nearby airbase advantage. Non-stealth interceptors, like the SU-30 family, can meanwhile focus on the tankers. Once they're down it's a one-way, single-mission war for the F-35s. That's hardly cost effective when the job could easily be done by swarms of cruise missiles.<br /><br />I suspect the offensive, strike role is going to be relinquished to unmanned systems while home defence will remain the focus of manned warplanes.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-62057177925073056742014-12-11T19:14:18.800-08:002014-12-11T19:14:18.800-08:00Any future aviation battle of the superstates will...Any future aviation battle of the superstates will be fought at the altitudes of satellites. <br />Integrated weapons systems such as the F35 & F22 rely upon satellite communications.<br />The day of the stand alone quick thinking aviator is here to stay.<br />As in both world wars; he with the most airplanes wins.<br />Technical superiority has yet to win a major confrontation.<br />Think ME 262 in WWII.<br />Modern day weapons systems are a product of the military/political/ industrial alliance.<br />When the day is done greed will trump ,true, national defence & security.<br />We are ,universally,moving toward limited war and by limited I mean it in the sense of limited partnerships as whilst our respective governments sabre rattle our multinationals work together to maximize profit regardless of political leaning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com