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F-35 flying over Estonia on April 25, 2017.

ruger kirjutas:Pildike Eesti kohal lennanud F-35-st

25. aprilli kohta on ilusad kollased põllud ja rohelised niidud meil...

Roamless kirjutas:

25. aprilli kohta on ilusad kollased põllud ja rohelised niidud meil...

Vaatasin sama, teiseks olles lennanud näiteks Saksamaa kohal, siis sealne pind ainult põldudest koosneb, Eestile on omane rohkem metsamassiivi rohkus.Pildil põle metsa kusagil eriti näha, juba kõik maha raiutud?

Today, Russia and China have built impressive arrays of very high frequency, or VHF, and other integrated radars that can spot even the US's most advanced and stealthy jets like the F-22 and the F-35 under the right circumstances.

While many have rushed to declare stealth a fruitless and expensive path for the US Air Force to walk, retired Marine Maj. Dan Flatley told Business Insider why pilots of America's most expensive weapons system weren't afraid of Russian or Chinese counterstealth.

"Adversaries have to build a kill chain," said Flatley, a former F-35 pilot. Just because a radar can find an object — and Russian VHF radars can spot F-35s — doesn't mean it can fix, track, target, and consummate that kill chain with a missile hit, he said.

"We're not trying to prevent every aspect of that chain, just snap one of those links," Flatley said.

So while an infrared search and tracking system could spot an F-35 and give enemy pilots an idea of where it is, it couldn't track it or target it with a missile. This means that the systems Russia and China have spent millions developing provide only a tiny glimpse of the F-35 — systems that may be sunk costs in the grand scheme of things.

"I don't need to stop everything all the time," Flatley said of the kill chain. "I just need to make you unable to finish what you've already invested tons of time and money and effort in trying to shoot me down."

"That's the thing people don't understand," Flatley said. "They think we're saying we're invisible to everyone all the time, at all bandwidths and energy levels. ... That's not what we're saying."

Flatley says F-35 pilots joke that only Wonder Woman has an invisible jet. The reality is that the F-35 is a huge piece of flying metal and alloy — a radar pointed at the right place at the right time will definitely spot it, but good luck shooting it down.

Meanwhile, as the enemy systems scour the skies for any trace of the F-35, the F-35 sees all of those radar emissions and can pinpoint the air defenses and enemy planes.

Where legacy planes had to choose between lethality and survivability on a mission, the F-35 can do four, 16, or even 32 things at a time, meaning that while air and ground threats look for the stealth jet, the F-35 can drop bombs to smash them, according to Flatley.

"We're extraordinarily confident in what we believe the performance of this jet is, and we have a lot of data and material to back that stuff up," Flatley said.

In the letter, the Air Force said a small team of air force officers was gathering data to prepare for a detailed analysis of alternatives for a new warplane.

The group was working closely with the ministry's "Task Force Future Air Combat System," which aims to make a recommendation for a political decision in mid-2018, he said.

"In order to understand (the) F-35's cutting-edge technologies, the German Air Force is requesting a classified brief of the F-35's capabilities in general and especially concerning sensor suites, information management and operational capabilities," the letter said.

Tornado asendamiseks ainsad mõtekad alternatiivid kas rohkem Eurofightereid või F-35 (millega asendavad Tornado itaallased ja britid).

nimetu kirjutas: Isegi pole otseselt vaja rohkem Eurofightereid, vaid hoopis kohandada olemasolevad lennukid missioonile sobivaks. Eurofighteril peaks relvastuse osas olema küllalt valikuid. Võib-olla oleks veel vaja mingit sobivat sihtimisseadet. Kulude poolest oleks see ehk mõistlikum variant.

Even extremely capable operators fall prey to the F-35's psychological advantage. "It has nothing to do with their skill or technology. They’re at such a technological disadvantage," said Flatley. "I've seen guys in F-18s turn directly in front of me and show me their tails cause they have no idea I’m there."

kuna Luftwaffe on viimase 15 aastaga ikka väga kokku tõmbunud, siis jääks ainult praegustest lennukitest ikka väga väheks

Eight Air Force F-35As from the 34th Fighter Squadron deployed to RAF Lakenheath in the U.K. in April and later flew to Estonia and Bulgaria to remind the Russians that we’ve got a burgeoning fleet of fifth generation aircraft and, well, they don’t.

The 13 F-35As maintained a 90 percent mission capable rate during the three-week exercise, respectable for any combat aircraft. Planes did have problems, including one that lost a generator, but every issue was dealt with inside of 24 hours, according to two Air Force officers talking to reporters today at the end of the exercises.

The early F-35s have much lower mission capable rates, in part because the Air Force is simply having problems finding parts for those jets.

“Our overall mission capable rate for this F-35 deployment (to the U.K., Estonia and Bulgaria) was 87.5 percent,” Col. David Lyons, the 388th Fighter Wing commander, told us. “And my current rate for my F-16s that are doing great work in Spain is 75 percent.”