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Subject: F-35 vs. Eurofighter
IAFbestinworld    8/13/2004 11:49:07 PM
Lockheed says that besides the f-22, the f-35 will be the best air to air fighter in the future, is this true? Could an f-35 take a Eurofighter? My opinion says yes since f-35 contains more stealthy characteristics.
 
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displacedjim    RE:French strategic and jsf? -- RM-Nod   2/5/2005 9:27:42 PM
Whaduh ya mean we lost? If'n weeda won, we'd be speakin' English now! Displacedjim
 
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Shooter    RE:French strategic and jsf?   2/10/2005 12:57:10 AM
By who in what publication?
 
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Shooter    RE:French strategic and jsf?   2/10/2005 1:20:02 AM
The claim that the F-15 has an RCS over 10 is ludicris under operational settings. That figure is only available when the F-15 cooperates by fliing exactly straight tword the target. This is simply not done in combat and at the prefered attack aspect it has much the same OR LESS RCS as any of the ECDs! MANY OF THE JOINT EXERCISES THAT YOU CITE ARE clearly reported quite diferently in the unbiased press and the AFTER ACTION REPORTS. IN A SUSTAINED TURN AND BURN DOGFIGHT NONE OF THE OTHER AC YOU MENTIONED CAN HANG WITH THE F-16 PIRIOD!!! Witout recumbent pilot seats, they are all pilot limeted to about two "G"s less than the F-16 can sustain! Piriod, end of story. While EVERYONE ON THE PLANET NOW KNOWS that that kind of performance is no longer valid, or they would have coppied the recumbent seat. The F-15C/E with it's very powerfull radar is clearly the OVER DOG in BVR combat as evidenced by the last three dozzen kills of all other types in REAL COMBAT!!! The fact that ALL OF THE ECDs have been detected and tracked at ranges well beyond ANYTHING THEY HAVE EVER RETURNED far more times than they have detected the F-15 with it's huge RCS in joint exercises, is testimony to the power of it's radar and the quality of the pilot training sylibus! That some times the other guys win in the Nellis ranges exercises is beyond dispute. Hell, the instructors flying scooters (A-4s) out there, regularly get the goods on the new F-15/16/18 guys all the time! The joint training that goes on out there not only helps the Europeans but us too. For every time that one of the ECDs has found the F-15 first there are literaly dozzens of times when the F-15 guys have found the ECD guys first AND AT RANGES THEY DON'T EVEN DREAM ABOUT! I sugjest that you subscribe to AVIATION WEEK AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY magasine to get your facts if not straight but at least better.
 
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Professor Fickle    RE:F-35 vs. Eurofighter   4/21/2005 5:05:33 PM
Will the F-35 be able to carry harpoon I have read weapons arsenal of the F-35 and it seems they left it out. I am sure the F-35C will eventually have harpoon in its arsenal, but what about the Air force version?
 
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EW3    RE:F-35 vs. Eurofighter - Harpoon   4/21/2005 5:19:24 PM
The Harpoon is on it's last legs within the US arsenal. While it will be around for a while as we have so many of them, and our allies still use them and there is a proposed new version ("Harpoon-21"), we probably will field a replacement. Something like HyFly or HyStrike or the JASSM.
 
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Professor Fickle    RE:F-35 vs. Eurofighter - Harpoon   6/4/2005 7:51:53 PM
They are developing a naval JASSM. The JASSM is faster than harpoon, longer ranged harpoon, and has a 1000 lb wardhead compared to a smaller 488lb of the harpoon!!!
 
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EW3    RE:F-35 vs. Eurofighter - Harpoon   6/4/2005 8:24:01 PM
Interesting. It looks very interesting. The JASSM will be compatible with the B-52, F-16, F/A-18 (threshold), B-1, B-2, F-15E, F-117, S3, P3 and JSF. Enemy navies beware.
 
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crashnburn    RE:F-35 vs. Eurofighter - Harpoon   6/6/2005 3:04:42 AM
EW3...This is nothing new. The world has feared the US navy for years, and it is not even close. The carrier force in itself is unbelieveable, let alone everything else.
 
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Shooter    RE:F-35 vs. Eurofighter - Harpoon   7/9/2005 6:19:57 PM
Nice comments EW-3! I like "FASTHAWK" and ASLAT/ASALM? myself! Test flown and reddy to deploy in 1980/1981? It was far ahead of its time. I personaly liked the variable flight profile the most.
 
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Lawman    RWR    7/9/2005 6:30:05 PM
Just a thought, but could you not simply have a satellite or similar saturate the enemy airspace with false signals? It would mean that a Flanker would have a lot of difficulty picking up any fighters passively - allowing AWACS to track the Flanker, but prevent the Flanker from getting a good 'picture'...
 
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