Croyez-vous au programme JSF ?

After years of debate about the future of tactical, airborne electronic attack for the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps, it appears the F-35 will become the next-generation, digital warfare aircraft for both services.

pourquoi l'US Navy at-elle commandé des F-35C STOL plutôt que des F-35B V/STOL ?

Ou peut être qu'elle a besoin de portes avions à catapultes pour mettre en oeuvre d'autres types d'appareil tel que les Vikings et les Hawkeyes.

Pit a écrit

Dans le cadre des célébrations du 11/11, petit reportage de la BBC sur l'HMS Illustrious…
Mais que voit on à la fin du reportage ?!
Ca…
N'était il pas pour le moment seulement prévu pour être en test qu'aux US ?!
Des tests embarqués auraient déjà (eu ?) lieu, où c'est juste pour la photo ?!
Ou encore, il ne s'agit là que d'une simple maquette…

Je rend l'antenne, am.net, à vous les studios

Ils ont même poussé… jusqu'à mettre un éclairage factice dans la tuyère ?!!!!!!!

Arrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh

Ben écoute, de la part de la perfide Albion, hein… je dis pas qu'ils en seraient capables… mais je dis pas qu'ils en seraient pas capables non plus, tu vois ?

Bon, il sort quand le coucou maintenant ?

On va dire que dans environ 1 an si tout se passe bien on aura une ou deux livraisons je pense.

JSF Scores Best In Candidate Comparison
(Source: Dutch Ministry of Defence; issued Dec. 18, 2009)

A month after Norway, the Netherlands have also confirmed their choice of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. (Lockheed Martin photo)
The F-35, better known as the Joint Strike Fighter, best meets the requirements drawn up by the Netherlands for the successor to the F16. This emerges from the findings of the candidate comparison that the State Secretary for Defence, Jack de Vries, today sent to the House of Representatives.

“The F-35 is the best multi-role combat aircraft and by around 2015 will certainly be able to carry out all six main missions successfully.” The F-35 also has the greatest operational availability. In addition, the capital costs of the F-35 are the lowest and it is anticipated that the total life-cycle costs will also be the lowest.

The completion of the candidate comparison marks the fulfillment of the commitment made to the House of Representatives to carry out such a comparison prior to the definitive acquisition of the two JSF test aircraft. This is planned to take place by the end of April 2009 at the latest.

The candidate comparison follows on from the candidate evaluation of 2001, from which the Joint Strike Fighter also emerged as the best aircraft for the best price. In 2002 the Cabinet decided to participate in the development of this fighter aircraft. This decision was largely based on the wish to give the Dutch aviation industry an opportunity to win orders in this project.

In the present government coalition agreement it is stated that in 2010 the cabinet will take a final decision regarding the replacement of the F-16 on the basis of a comparison of quality, price and delivery time. The Joint Strike Fighter scored the best for all three criteria.

The comparative study, between the Advanced F-16, de F-35 and the Gripen Next Generation, was carried out in cooperation with TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research) and NLR (Netherlands Aerospace Laboratory) and was monitored by the audit services of the Defence organisation and the Ministry of Economic Affairs).

At the request of the House of Representatives, the firm of RAND Europe also followed the course of the comparative study. In their reports, both the audit services and RAND consider that the candidate comparison was carried out transparently and objectively and that the reports contain an accurate account of the results of the comparison.

On account of the lengthy period of thirty years over which the project will extend, the calculation of total life-cycle costs includes an allowance for uncertainties.

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Since the F-35 has barely begun its flight test program, and will not enter service for another seven years at best, one wonders on what rational criteria the Netherlands could have determined that the F-35 offers "the greatest operational availability," that "its capital costs…are the lowest and…that the total life-cycle costs will also be the lowest.")

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/cgi-bin/client/modele.pl?session=dae.43607579.1229750641.oiYUoH8AAAEAABjRFSwAAAAK&prod=100808&modele=release

Lockheed Martin rolled out the first weight-optimized conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) variant of the F-35 Lightning II fighter on Dec. 19. The new F-35A, called AF-1, joins three weight-optimized F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing variants currently undergoing testing. The aircraft are structurally identical to the F-35s that will be delivered to armed services beginning in 2010. "The Lightning II CTOL aircraft will be, by far, the most widely employed F-35 variant in the world, with more than 1,700 to be used by the U.S. Air Force alone," said Dan Crowley, Lockheed Martin executive vice president and F-35 program general manager. "The F-35A we delivered is, at its core, the same aircraft that will enter operational service with the Air Force and international customers."…

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/news/press_releases/2008/12232008ae_f35-CTOL-rollout.html

The aircraft are structurally identical to the F-35s that will be delivered to armed services beginning in 2010.

Je rêve ou quoi un F-35 pour 2010? Et pourquoi pas une commande export pour rafale tant que vous y êtes.

TMor a écrit

Rêver ne coûte rien.

Contrairement au F-35!

Oups, j'avais pas vu que tu l'as mise ici aussi !

Et sur les fora allemands ?

Il semble bien cher partout le F-35, sauf en Norvège où il se trouve l'être moins que le Gripen…

C'est le froid, ça anesthésie davantage

Avec les prix exorbitants des F-22 ainsi que de leur entretien (Bien supérieur au budget prévu à cet effet) qui ont poussé le F-117 à une retraite anticipée, je ne crois pas vraiment au F-35 tout du moins pas au niveau annoncé au début par l'USAF et la RAF (qui commence à déchanter). L'USAF cherche d'ailleurs à se débarrasser de tout ses vieux Falcon, si quelqu'un est intéressé (En oubliant le fait que les cellules sont pour la majorité à leur nombre d'heures de vol qui devrait être synonymes de la retraite).
2010….Entrée en service anticipée = manque de fonds pour finaliser et mener au but initial?
Avec 300milliards de $ d'investissement (Air et Cosmos 24octobre 2008) pour le projet JSf, ils ont tout de même intérêt à son sortir quelque chose de valable, sinon la RAF va devenir dingue et devoir acheter des Rafales haha.

A recent analytical study, produced by Air Power Australia, shows very clearly that the idea of using a low performance single seat interdictor aircraft such as the Joint Strike Fighter as an air superiority fighter is simply not viable. Critical analysis of known Russian technological capabilities, tactics and doctrine indicates that the Joint Strike Fighter would suffer heavy losses in combat if used as substitute for the F-22A Raptor in air combat against more recent variants of the Flanker, in a real world “many vs many” air combat environment…

Assessing Joint Strike Fighter Air Combat Capabilities