02-28-2013, 12:23 PM
G.Irish Wrote:HAULN-SS Wrote:I was always under the impression that the F35 was not supposed to excel at any one thing. It's more like a Gen 4.5 fighter than a Gen 5. I think the idea was to have a larger quantity. The F35 carries half the A/A missiles of the F22 for example. I think the JSF gets a lot of bad press because on paper its worse, but it was supposed to be.The F35 was designed to be a strike fighter platform, like the F-16 or F/A-18. The F-22's mission is air superiority, so it being faster, stealthier, and having more AA missiles is by design. The problem is that the F-35 is not shaping up to be as good a strike aircraft as it should have been.
Yeah. Our F15's have been working way past their intended service life, and the F35 was supposed to sort of fill the role of the F15, 16, and 18E.
The F22 is for knocking planes out of the sky. That's pretty much its one and only job.
The F35, however, was supposed to take off from a carrier, drop some ordinance on some brown people, and then skirt back through possibly hostile airspace to return without getting shot down.
Furthermore, the original intent was that a lot of the "work" from the F22 would bleed over into the F35. Stealth design, avionics, subsystems, etc. Not in a parts commonality way, but at least in a design elements and production methods way.
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