Why not just used the landing gear of B/C on F35 A and use it as naval version without complicating(downgrading the performance) by adding unnecessary stuff like lift fan system and exhaust TVS( like Rafale M) These carriers are huge and can easily handle the F35 A landing and takeoff requirements.
I understand the rationale. But US Navy Carriers are large enough for a full fledged F 35 variant (ie A) rather than going for those variants which are designed for very small carriers. Why compromise when they can use the Best type available.
Not practical at all. B and C are very compromised designs with inferior flights characteristics, low fuel and low weapons load. You will need refuelers to come close to LOC/LAC. and even then it’s not designed for high altitude operation.In case of India, it will do the job when pakistan or china make Indian runways non-operational so IAF and Navy can launch aircrafts from chitrakoot or Jhumritalaiya in case of full scale war, without any runway.
For India it will save cost of making new airports and India can launch the aircraft from any where in Himalayas
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A Block 3I has almost nothing that works, it is a Block 2B with instabilities, even a Pakistani Mirage III would be a credible threat to a Block 3I
This is why people think you're not as smart as YOU think you are. F-35B blk3i dominated at RedFlag against other fighters, Marine Corp General is telling you this, but you thinking waaay to highly of your intelligence or lack thereof and think you know better. The french plane fanboy brain is truly amazing... amazingly full of himself.
You are indecisive and project your own faults onto others, such as being full of yourself or believing against all odds that your crappy F-35 is superior to real planes.This is why people think you're not as smart as YOU think you are. F-35B blk3i dominated at RedFlag against other fighters, Marine Corp General is telling you this, but you thinking waaay to highly of your intelligence or lack thereof and think you know better. The french plane fanboy brain is truly amazing... amazingly full of himself.
But hey you know what I'll give you this.... at least you have come to the reality that the F-35 with a full internal AG load is .2 mach slower than a clean french plane.... and that is the F1 version of the french plane the lighter one thn current heavy F3.
I live in the world of reality while fanboys like you don't.
The reality is that L.M. has turned its marketing into propaganda to hide the failure of the F-35 development.I live in the world of reality while fanboys like you don't.
Reality is F-35 is vastly superior than your french plane for obvious reasons. It's so obvious that nations that have a choice between F-35 and french plane select the F-35. F-35 not the french plane will be the dominant fighter numerically in Europe which says A LOT about your planes shortcomings. I know the truth hurts but you can't live the rest of your life in a fantasy world that will never exist.
Here' s another reality slap... I mean check. The F-18E is just as fast as your plane and faster than your naval version. What a dreadful reality this must be for you, eh?
What? All F-35 variants are faster than french planes with a full AG internal load and fully fueled. Air force french plane top speed is mach 1.8 clean configuration and mach 1.6 for the naval version. F-35B is killing it at Red Flag and @ 1:11 Billy Flynn explains the F-35c turning capability.
Also....
-The F-35C’s large internal fuel tanks give it more fuel – and reach – than any of the JSF variants, enabling it to carry up to 20,000 pounds of fuel.
“Your ability to stay on station and provide support is exponentially better than any other platform that is out there, with maybe the exception of a (F-15E) Strike Eagle the Air Force has,” Ahern said. “We are far and away the best for time-on-station range, and that matters.”
During a previous tour flying the F/A-18C over Syria and Iraq for Operation Inherent Resolve, “we had to go to the tanker all the time, because you had to maintain above a certain ‘bingo’ number and there were certain airfields you could divert to, so you need a lot of gas,” he said. But with the F-35C, “you hit the tanker a lot less and have a lot more options available and provide continuous support that other platforms could not.”
The F-35C’s capability to hot refuel/hot rearm at forward bases, such as on atolls or at remote airstrips – is a complementary capability to carrier operations and extends its reach when operating off deployed carriers. “For expeditionary base operations, we just need a small landing strip, whether we’ve built one ourselves or we’ve captured one,” he said. “It could be on a peninsula, it could be deep in a territory… and now I can refuel and I’m right back in the fight, vice having to fly back potentially hundreds of miles to some other more built-up location.”
“If we are called upon to push forward from where the carrier could be, in a higher fight, then now with this demonstrated capability, we could land at a small island airstrip, with expeditionary gear, similar to World War II island-hopping,” he said. “I can get bombs and gas and get right back into the flight without having to fly back to the carrier.
“We’ve tested and proven in the F-35C.”
The F-35C carries almost twice the fuel and “bigger and better weapons than the F-35B could carry,” he said, referring to the short takeoff and landing variant the Marine Corps has planned to buy in greater numbers than the carrier variant of the fifth-generation fighter.
The F-35C can complement the F-35B in supporting missions including armed reconnaissance, enemy suppression, strike coordination and close-air support, the latter the “bread-and-butter” mission for Marines.
“We have the flexibility for the what-if,” he said. “No plan survives first contact with the enemy, right? SO if you have this perfect plan for how the fuel is going to work out, and something changes it, you don’t have a margin of now I have to leave… leave for a period of time just to get gas… CAS is to provide support, and being overhead is doing that.”
Marines Demonstrate Ability to Include Carrier-Based F-35Cs in Expeditionary Base Plans - USNI News
SAN DIEGO, Calif., – The Marine Corps’ first carrier-capable F-35C Lightning II squadron demonstrated, for the first time, the capability to quickly rearm and refuel at expeditionary land bases, a mission key for future island-hopping operations that top leaders envision the U.S. military will...
F-35c way more combat radius than F-14 ever had.
