Most jets like the f-14, f-15, f-18, f-22, mig-29, su-27, and su-57 have two engines yet the f-16 and most importantly the f-35 only have one. Is giving the f-35 only one engine a mistake?
Also, f-35 thread. I like the alien looking organic curves it has.
Fat
Nah, it's a cost thing.
Extra engines provide redundancy, F-16 and F-35 are multirole.
Multirole is a fancy word for cookie cutter cheap general warplane.
The F-22's are technically supposed to be the planes wresting control of the skies from enemy planes.
>Is giving the f-35 only one engine a mistake?
Of course.
Imagine having to fly something this fat, stubby, and ugly. Aviation aesthetics are dead, there will never be anything as cool looking as the f-14 or with as much soul as the f-4 phantom. Being a fighter pilot isn’t badass anymore.
Digital displays ruined fighter planes. I miss the gauges and physical maps.
SOUL
For the F-35 along with what the one guy said about cost I figure part of going with one engine was also a question of the complexity and weight for the STOVL variant.
>never flown
oh wow starving vatniks don't know what curves are
>how to spot someone that's never been inside a cockpit before
>oh wow starving vatniks don't know what curves are
They should know. They designed it.
ameriflaps btfo.
I also love how burgers say they won the space race when we were the first to put a satellite and a man into space. Motherfuckers just made an arbitrary win condition of “first on the moon” so they can pretend they won. Imagine if Soviet Union said “We won space race!” after launching Sputnik.
This is now a Yak thread.
here's some more Yak curves.
Americans did buy a good plane. Russians know their curves.
cursed image
the s o y grin, the dyed hair, the nose piercings, the token tarantula, and the aviator glasses to add insult to injury all inside of a mig-21 for bonus hipster points. It’s almost impressive that it hit every bait check mark.
Two. It's the same reason why the Malaysian rejecting the offer of American F-16 in the 1990s and F-35 program offer in early 2000s. The Malaysian requirement of fighter with two-engines that could reach safely from Malaysian peninsula to its Borneo and Spartly region across South China Sea. They've already got couple of bad experience of crashed/missing single-engine fighter (e.g Skyhawk or BAE Hawk) across South China Sea. If observed carefully, all front-line fighters of RMAF are actually two-engined version.
Imagine gambling your life on a single engine because “but muh shekels goy!”
You're a retard. The F-16 was designed first and foremost for pure dogfighting.
The F-35 and F-16 are multirole fighters (although the F-16 is optimized for maneuvering and dogfights), the SU-57 and F-22 are dedicated air superiority fighters. One should not expect two different types of fighter to look identical. The F-35's lifting system also probably wouldn't work right with two engines since the way it works it draws shaft power from the engine to run the lifter, with two engines and one lifter the plane probably wouldn't balance right and the shaft system and gearbox to transfer shaft power from two engines would be more complicated and heavy and expensive, or it would need two lift fans and two shafts and again both more weight and more size which means more cost. I would guess that for the F-35 one engine is more like a necessity of it's design, although two engines do offer redundancy, if one engine dies the other can allow an aircraft to limp down rather than forcing the pilot to dump the airplane. Personally I wish for something more like the YF-23, but since we're more focused right now on replacing older multirole fighters and the Russians and Chinese mostly just play around with cardboard mockups which they and their propaganda mills pretend are able to even compete with our last gen fighters, the need for a fighter definitively superior in every way to the F-22 just isn't there.
No it was not.
Yes.
It was.
From the other threads:
Aint going to waste my time to write an answer to this picture, straight from the archive:
A little list of stuff that is fishy on a short glimpse in this picture alone >Yak uses dedicated vertical thrust jets not a lift fan
Obvious difference hence why they lie about it.
>work of Petr Ufimstev was deem to be useless for soviets and so it was allowed to be puplish publicly
American making stuff work russians could not.
>the picture of the YAK-43 is according to wikipedia from a site for vector graphics that is offline, great source
On top of that every vantik like you would have shitted all over me for using something from wikipedia, while almost all the text on the picture is from there.
>there is no source at all for the YAK-43 using s-ducts
Inb4 "but YAK-40 and YAK-42 had them". Yeah they had them but they are fucking civilian airliners and entire different planes
t. MASSIVE BUTTHURT AND DAMAGE CONTROL from a Lockmart shill
Stay fucking mad. Go argue with Wikipedia and history books.
you seem to be enraged
quit projecting, shill. and take care of that massive butthurt. kek
pardon, my fault
you seem to be enraged and russian
better?
I'm amazed you were able to type this given how fucking dumb you are.
Russian rangeban when?
2 engines mean more impressive super maneuverability. China uses a variable thrust super engine on the J-20 which means a single engine can do 50-110% of its capability on a pulse. This gives it an unsurpassable ability to do 40 degree sustained turns. This baffles Americans so much because they do not have the intellectual capacity to develop technology to do such maneuvers. Their most maneuverable aircraft is a fat, round ugly plane. That shows how much their mental capacity is.
Newer western engines are so much more reliable that two engines are no longer necessary. Interestingly enough one engine failure on a two engine plane often leads to dual engine failure. IIRC one of the British engines has never experienced a failure in flight. The F135 puts out a huge amount of power for its weight. Something in the area of 11-1. It's due for a 10% increase in power and efficiency as well.
Lmao what are gliders.
If I recall, the engineers that made good American planes decided to work for China instead because China gives them better pay and values them more than the Americans who put more importance to Israelis than to their own people. That's why only the non-intelligent people who can only make single engine planes are left in America. Brain drain or something.