2007年3月24日 · The proposed F-35D holds the key to me. It has STOL capabilities, it has good range, stealth and can be easily converted to carry a laser or have an unmanned cockpit. The image below is a variation of the F-35D. has the following features: - Everything except the cockpit area is from the Carrier model - The Cockpit area is from the STOVL model

2012年5月2日 · The lawsuit is against Pittsburgh-based Howmet Aerospace and its subsidiaries, which supply Lockheed and other F-35 subcontractors with titanium materials for the F-35 program. Lockheed’s lawsuit alleges that, in November, Howmet demanded a “massive price increase” on those titanium materials, beyond the prices specified in the aerospace ...

2009年5月23日 · Double seater derived from F-22 is highly unlikely simply because the F-22 is in fact single purpose fighter. So there is only a need of training, that can be with the state of the art computer technology fully satisfied. But with the much universal F-35, well, this is the real question for the future.

2007年5月6日 · A hypothetical two-seat F-35C version, from "Joint Strike Fighter - Inside the 21st Century Warfighter", a supplement published with the 5-11 September 2000 issue of 'Flight International'... cheers, Robin.

2011年1月17日 · That's a lot of ground to cover and I'm not at all convinced that a notional F-35D would be significantly cheaper than a F-22 would be. A RAND study estimated it'd cost approximately $13 billion to restart the F-22 line and build 75 jets. You'd probably have to spend close to that just to redesign and test a new F-35 variant.

2012年5月2日 · To be fair, F-35 IOC is indeed rather underpacked - probably due to overoptimistic expectations on the blk 4 schedule. Like, leaving full weapon integration out in retrospect is highly doubtful. But that's me being smart many years later...and it's under question mark if Su-57 and J-20 actually escaped similar problems.

2008年5月30日 · Obviously the costs come from increased defense spending. We're already down, what, 20% over the last couple of years? The downward trend cannot continue while maintaining a viable military. Military spending must increase. The costs to restart the F-22 production are tiny to the costs of...

2012年5月2日 · If a two-seat version of the F-35 was developed (Call it the F-35D) for the USMC and/or the USN it would likely be a modified F-35B forward fuselage (Lift-fan replaced by a second seat) attached to an F-35C (Centre and aft-fuselage plus wings, tailplane and landing gear) and be deployed on a regular carrier.

2012年8月5日 · F-35D/E/F (Block 4/TR3) (New mission computer, new radar, new vision system) After all, new avionics generally caused a designation change in the past on other programs (hence the many B-52, A-7, F-100, F-4, F-14, F-15 and A-10 variants to mention a few).

2006年1月2日 · Yes, I saw the MV-35 design last week in the "Various US amphibious warfare ship concepts" thread.Nearly two years ago I mentioned in the "F-35D, other Lighting II versions" thread the same idea of a stealthy VSTOL and CSAR aircraft for the SOF based on VSTOL engine concept of the F-35B.