Yeah. Its one of the only actual new aircraft needed this major.
Would be a good fit alongside a Typhoon with similar AESA (Gimballed) and the much needed stopgap between aircraft with Gen 5s and those without
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I’ve been saying this for ages, and they could always use the prototype PS-05/A AESA as a bit of an upgrade too
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Well not delibered yet either way.
I am still npt quite happy with aesa efts either since we dont realy have mk1s yet
We did trial & order Super Hornets (dear god please don’t that thing will suck so much) and the cancelled the contract, so that would be an option in Gaijins mind now that we’re adding more trialed equipment again
trial and order?
when
Amazing sensor suite, meh armament and flight performance. It’s not just the British stuff that’s taking forever, the block 4 just keeps getting delayed.
They shouldve kept the AV-8 and F-16/18C replacement programs seperate. Or had AV-8/F-18C program and F-16 replacement, just not all 3 together.
It’s like the fast good and cheap thing
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It’s cheap, it’s stealthy, allegedly exceptions ew suite a great radar, small magazine depth but it can do everything. It’s not overhyped it’s unmatched value for the money and it’s extremely capable albeit with limitations.
And it’s going to get much better, America is working towards de-lockmart the plane, once that is done weapon integration will become much easier for everything allegedly
And that’s the whole coneptual problem of the F-35. It was build to do everything, so in consequence it can’t to anything of that good let alone perfect → Jack of all trades, master of none.
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bunch of nonsensical buzzwords. multirole fighters are the norm and the future.
Nah, never would be.
SPEAR and Meteor adapters for the internal bays have recently popped up for the F-35, so it should be implemented by the time they arrive in game. Or at least be an option with good backing to be implemented.
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It’s not too dissimilar to the F-111’s story (that results in the B-1B & F-14), two separate programs ( the Joint Advanced Strike Technology a Stealth focused “Low end” design to complement the F-22, and the Common Affordable Lightweight Fighter a Follow-On to the Harrier II) get rolled into one, and leverage the latter’s further progress as the baseline which results directly in the F-35B, having the tiny bays, due to shaping considerations the design needing to work around the lift-fan which takes up most of the spare internal volume.
Seems I misremembered, we only wanted to order super hornets back in 2020, but I seems a formal order was never placed.
(I hope we did some trials with them before making that decision)
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this was just a dilemma back then.
F-35 was unwanted and the only other real option was the SH. Pretty sure no trials were ever conducted
Well that’s dumb (not that I expect anything else from the pre Pistorius MoD (and even post we still do dumb stuff)), but ehy weren’t strike/advanced eagles or F-16s an option?
Why was the F/A-18E/F the only option and not the F-16E/F or F-15(E) too?
but oftentimes better than a master of one.
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The number of people who misquote and assign this as a negative trait is concerning.
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It’s called a concession bud.
So it has both a positive and a negative connotation to it, jack of all trades means it’s decent at everything. Master of none, means that in each and every field it’s a jack in, one or more opposing objects or in this case vehicles are better than it.
The F35 tbh doesn’t seem to all it’s cracked up to be, especially the carrier versions Britain bought considering their operational capabilities are extremely middling.
With barely any engineers, nor pilots as well as troubles with weapon integration leaves it at a shocking 40 percent availability of the planes we have are all that can be used.
So yeah.
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