DoD Might Kill the F-35A JSF, WHY?

XabbaRus · 11-22-05, 06:41 PM

Thing is you can make a good carrier fighter into a good landbased fighter. Not the other way roud.

Look at the F-111.

Look at the F-14, pure carrier fighter but great off land and could take on an F-15 no probs. Imagine if they took and F-15 and started beefing it up for carrier ops.

I'd take a C version of the F-35 any day. Also you'd save money in spares. These things are crazy, you have 3 different types of the same plane but they might only have 50 - 60% commonality in spares. Ok that might eb an exaggeration but look at the Tornado F.3 and GR-4, same plane, different radar but commonality ZIP.

11-22-05, 06:41 PM	#9
XabbaRus Navy Seal Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 5,330 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Thing is you can make a good carrier fighter into a good landbased fighter. Not the other way roud. Look at the F-111. Look at the F-14, pure carrier fighter but great off land and could take on an F-15 no probs. Imagine if they took and F-15 and started beefing it up for carrier ops. I'd take a C version of the F-35 any day. Also you'd save money in spares. These things are crazy, you have 3 different types of the same plane but they might only have 50 - 60% commonality in spares. Ok that might eb an exaggeration but look at the Tornado F.3 and GR-4, same plane, different radar but commonality ZIP. __________________