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Bahh this server is being very strange. anyway F-15 pilots are saying DRFM jamming Means nothing versus an F-22 http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/the-f-35s-air-to-air-capability-controversy-05089/ ??the ability to actually have that data fusion that the aeroplane has makes an incredible difference to how you perform in combat. I saw it first hand on a Red Flag mission in an F15D against a series of fifth-generation F22s. We were actually in the red air. In five engagements we never knew who had hit us and we never even saw the other aeroplane?. After that particular mission I went back and had a look at the tapes on the F22, and the difference in the situational awareness in our two cockpits was just so fundamentally different. That is the key to fifth-generation. That is where I have trouble with the APA analysis?. To me that is key: it is not only stealth; it is the combination of the EOS and the radar to be able to build a comprehensive picture. In that engagement I talked about at Nellis, in Red Flag, the ability to be in a cockpit with a God?s-eye view of what is going on in the world was such an advantage over a fourth-generation fighter ? and arguably one of the best fourth-generation fighters in existence, the F15. But even with a DRFM jamming pipe, we still had no chance in those particular engagements. And at no time did any of the performance characteristics that you are talking about have any relevance to those five engagements

Here is more, I dint even know aboyt the APG-81s interleaved mode. I always assumed. it could track with out the radar. 5) AN/ASQ-239 ?Barracuda?. While most aircraft carry crutch Electronic Warfare(EW) systems, the F-35?s was designed from the outset for integration, able to operate not just with other components within the aircraft such as the APG-81, it can operate with other F-35?s over MADL to perform EW operations together. The AN/ASQ-239 is an evolution of the F-22?s AN/ALR-94 which is described as the most complex and costly avionics piece on the F-22, the Barracuda has twice the reliability and is a quarter the cost of the ALR-94, as well as being able to reduce the 30 sensors on the F-22 to 10 sensors, it has demonstrated the ability to detect and jam the F-22?s radar. It?s able to precisely geo-locate emission locations hundreds of kilometers away, further then it?s radar can see and from there the APG-81 can be slaved to that data track and then detect and track the object with a very narrow beam, increasing power and detection on target while decreasing detection by other aircraft. At close range it is capable of narrowband interleaved search and track(NBILST) against aircraft which provides precise range and velocity that can then be used by a missile without need of the APG-81, allowing 360 degree targeting of aircraft. The Barracuda can refer to it?s data-banks of known emissions and identify the source vehicle or store it for future classification. Other features are false target generation and range-gate stealing, a towed RF decoy is also a part of the package as is MJU-68/B Flares, the counter measure dispenser?s can be seen from behind. https://comprehensiveinformation.wordpress.com/ To put it mildly, I would NOT want to try and beat the F-35 in the ECM arena, your playing to the planes strengths. Your better off trying to beat it with raw kinematics

The More I look up things about this plane the more I like it. IYO 1. How does a very modest super-cruise for 150 miles at mach 1.2 affect weapons envelopes, and release? 2. I just learned that the F-35 is the 1st plane to be able to interrogate another plane behind. How does this effect the fight. 3. And Finally will this revolutionize airwar by allowing, the 1st fighter ever to do BFM at night? As I recall Night doesn't matter through das.