F-35 status (in BMS) request
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Just thought I’d add my 2 cents into this debate. No desire to change minds, but hopefully some perceptions may be “molded” by this video. Keep in mind that the battlefield of the 21st Century really has been influenced by the “video game” genre we all have been participating in for the past few decades. Thus the culmination of the electronic battlefield & the B-2, F-22 & F-35 (not to mention MQ-1/4/9 & UCAV). Regardless of whether the F-35 is a jack-of-all/master-of-none, it does what it was designed to do: Be stealthy & integrate “well” in the “e-game” battlefield that will be fought from here on out.
Cheers,
JollyPS - OH! and lets not forget that “one design” = commonality of parts, thus fewer supply lines. Essentially a fantasy world the US Military has been chasing since the F-111 days! :flypig::thumb:
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from what i can gather about raptor tactics from public disclosure mostly Lockheed red flag bragging, the raptor doesn’t shoot BVR, uses decoy radar emissions to get the enemy cold on the nose, than uses a stalking like behavior to get in real close and shoot the gun directly at the canopy. This is how singletons have racked up 16 kill sorties in operational wargames,
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No F-35 is planed yet.
An F-35 3D model project is on hold since 2016 : https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?22643-WIP-F-35A&p=368059&viewfull=1#post368059
… no updates since then.
Good Day, Dee-Jay. I don’t remember if it was 4.32 or .33, but I have flown the Lightning in BMS. I think it was K’12 theater(if memory serves) . So, when I set up the 4.34 K’12, I was surprised to see the F-22 modeled, but not the F-35.
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Hi!
F-35 was never part of BMS database
(I was a huge fan of Airwolf ;))
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IIRC, it was in the Nortic theater.
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Hi!
F-35 was never part of BMS database
(I was a huge fan of Airwolf ;))
Hi, Guys. Dan, you’re right in was in Nordic, and I remember flying it off the Vinson off the east coast of Korea. I also found this:
The point being, the Lightning used to be in BMS, in some form, but of course you’re right, Dee-Jay, that it was never in the “base” BMS.
BTW, yes, Airwolf was a fun show. But, it sicks with me as that it led to a friend “assigning” me that callsign. And as the poet said, the rest is history. -
from what i can gather about raptor tactics from public disclosure mostly Lockheed red flag bragging, the raptor doesn’t shoot BVR, uses decoy radar emissions to get the enemy cold on the nose, than uses a stalking like behavior to get in real close and shoot the gun directly at the canopy. This is how singletons have racked up 16 kill sorties in operational wargames,
Yeah, this technology dates way back to the 1980’s with a little known helicopter called Blue Thunder!
:mrgreen:
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…Marines are not “fighter pilots”…they are Attack pilots. And if you ever address one incorrectly they will VERY quickly correct you.
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