Looking at this infographic, the only thing that doesn't make sense to me is the full air to air loadout. That's 14 AMRAAMs and 2 Sidewinders.
Assuming 2 Sidewinders take the outer wing pylons, 4 AMRAAMs internally, that leaves the 4 remaining wing pylons, and I'm guessing they have a double rack. Where's the extra 2 missiles? Or can one of the wing pylons handle a triple rack?
Other urls found in this thread:
seapowermagazine.org
twitter.com
It's based on the still non existent project of putting 3 AMRAAMs on each weapons bay. It's just American propaganda for domestic consumption.
Have any sources or pictures showing a triple rack for the F-35? I've seen LM flog the triple rack on advertisement's India's F-16s.
Total vatnik hours
I mean, the plan is to mount a third rail on each of the bay doors. The geometry works out just fine, and no one’s presented any reason why the engineering would run into problems. I imagine it’ll be implemented rather quickly.
>Beast mode
Are Americans literally children?
>his fighter doesn’t have a beast mode
yikes
But in all seriousness, it’s just some dumb marketing slogan that probably sounded trendy to whatever exec approved it.
>Beast mode
Kek!
>Are Americans literally children?
how would it fly loaded down with 22k pounds of bombs?? could it even take off?
Well, max thrust at full afterburner is 48k lbs. Loaded weight of an F-35A is 50k, but I’m not sure if that includes ordnance. So adding up the total weight to be 70k pounds, 50k lbs of thrust is well within the range of flylable. You won’t want to be doing much maneuvering, but if you’re trying to be a bomb/missile truck, it’d be fine.
Do they plan some sort of quick drop mod if you for some reason would need to "restealth"?
That’s already how the external pylons on the F-22 and F-35 work. If the pilot wants to jettison external stores, the pylons separate too. Not sure if the attachment points can be covered without landing, but it’d absolutely drop the RCS of the aircraft quite significantly.
Hi, Lockheed Design Department here. We havent checked to see if it can take of, thanks for reminding us. A LockMart-style gift basket will be sent to your adress shortly as a sign of our thankfulness.
what mission would it carry 14 amraams for?
Shooting down Russia’s entire 5th gen fleet with 2 extra missiles to spare?
On one hand, an actual gift basket full of Lockheed Martin merch would be pretty cool. On the other, “Lockmart style gift basket” sounds like a euphemism for a Hellfire.
Its gonna be a giftbasket thats both late on arrival and that YOU somehow have to pay for, but the stuff inside would probably be pretty sweet.
>LockMark brand cookies with extra RAM
>Shill Pringles
>Chocolate ala Bugete Overrun
>a nice shiraz made from Boeing tears and sour vatnik grapes
I can live with that.
>fighter jet costs hundreds of millions of dollars
>costs a million per hour just to fly it
>strap 4 missiles or 2 missiles and 2 bombs
The F-35 now costs $80 million dollars. That’s less or equivalent to its competitors, and it’s obviously significantly more capable.
>significantly more capable.
Compared to what? Yes it is more capable compared to Russians but it is far more inferior to Chinese J-20.
That was finished last week.
By what metric Chang
VTOL configurations never make sense anywhere.
>beast mode
Do you know, it's worth it if it makes Russians seethe. Which it clearly does.
are there stealth drop tanks for f35 or j20??
What's the point of going beast mode given that it would negate the whole stealth thing?
Savage.
Bomb truck in permissive airspace, arsenal ship working with stealth-configured craft in datalink.
I thought that was the F-15X's job?
nobody's gonna drop a bazillion $ worth of missiles unless you dont have the fuel to return to base without it.
Six internal missiles.
seapowermagazine.org
Bet it flies like a brick in beast mode.
>Looking at this infographic
For what purpose? With shitty slang words like "beast mode" it bears zero credibility whatsoever and was likely made by some retarded forum poster.
Yes. What's even worse, they're man-children.
This amount of asshurt at American superiority.
>they're man-children
Unironically this.
Yes.
And you're still worse.
>the amount of Jews in that pic
Unsettling
Why do you think we've got all the money?
Pretending your shitty knock off plane is better than it actually is won't make your tiny penis any larger chang
Jew trickery and hasidic curses.
Do you fucking retards never get tired of these threads? Or is it just autism
If you've got the choice between loosing the missiles and risk loosing the fighter AND the missiles then the choice is obvious.
And the subtext suggests you've already launched the missiles and just have empty, not stealthy, pylons attached.
>far more inferior
these are the people you argue against, Jow Forums
drink it in
Obviously. If we have them why not use them.
>doesn’t carry AIM-9x internally
Why live?
the radar return you'll reduce by dropping pylons is not worth it.
they should really make pyrotechnical 'covers' for the missile and pylon that are angled to reduce radar return to the horizon when flying level . if the radar return on the external missile\pylons is such a problem this can solve it relatively cheaply. pilot can activate the pyrotechnic and discard the cover when he expects to fire any of the missiles (or it can be discarded automatically when launched , missile head would have to be exposed to enable it to lock)
isnt that the reason they developed the 9x block 2 ? since internally carried missiles cant lock before launch the block 2 can be guided by the plane and it's sensors until it gets it's own lock (similar to ground-to-air missiles like arrow that have remote guidence and when they get close to the target they use onboard optical guidence)
动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種 強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁 專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫害 侵略 掠奪 破壞 拷問 屠殺 活摘器官 誘拐 買賣人口 遊進 走私 毒品 賣淫 春畫 賭博 六合彩 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Winnie the Pooh 劉曉波动态网自由门
F-22 has pylon jettison, F-35 does not
Absolutely seethibg
cope harder vlad
I see right through you, yuroshit
You underestimate the power of the US economy and military industrial complex. Those missiles might represent a significant cost to ruskies, chinamen or yuropoors, but to Uncle Sam it's peanuts.
Imagine being so obsessed with a country that you spend the time to make this. Although I suppose when the only other thing you have to do with your time is take krokodil and get raped in boot camp, it's a more attractive option.
>14x AIM-120C + 2x AIM-9X = ~6,800,000 USD
>1x F35 = ~80,000,000 USD
Dropping ~$7,000,000 worth of missiles isn't shit compared to losing a fucking jet fighter. By doing so you're not "losing" 7 mil, you're "saving" ~73 mil by keeping your airframe intact.
im saying you wont find situation in which dropping missiles would save the plane.(and even if you do there would be no way to tell).
the only one i can think of is if the plane was frced into an air engagement and spent too much fuel to return to base with the weight and drag of all the missiles, then you'd discard them to get extra range and land the plane.
source?
First hand knowledge
>I'm-gonna-drop-these-on-you-cuz-I-can-mode
Imagine how great it must feel on the flight home after you've dropped everything