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Re: When it comes to Military Aircraft 

By: lkorrow in POPE IV | Recommend this post (2)
Sat, 01 Jul 17 10:50 AM | 82 view(s)
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Zim,

I'm unclear on it. Your article says:

"For the F-35A, 180 rounds can be housed in the gun’s linkless ammunition handling system. For the F-35B and F-35C, they both rely on an external gun pod carrying the GAU-22. The gun pod can hold 220 rounds in a helical magazine that wraps around the gun’s barrels within the pod."

So, the F-35A can carry 180 rounds. And the F-35B and F-35C will carry 220 rounds in an external gun pod. The gun shoots 3000 rounds/minute. How long is this plane dog fighting? Best case, 14 seconds and its ammo's gone? Why bother?

Close range, I don't see it. They're relying on shooting down a plane a couple of miles away, it seems. Did they figure they would never be in a real dog fight again? Or do they have short range rockets on it for dogfights?

With Russians flying 5 feet from the wingtips of a us recon plane, how's the F-35 going to take out the Russian fighter and not our plane?

They seem to have made a decision that we don't need interceptors anymore. Was that a sound decision?





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Re: When it comes to Military Aircraft
By: Zimbler0 in POPE IV
Sat, 01 Jul 17 5:46 AM 		Msg. 28146 of 47202

Lkorrow> The sabotaged F-35 can't even engage in a dogfight. It shoots at targets from miles away. Design flaw by design.


Don't think so Linda.

The F-35 does have a cannon so it can dogfight.

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http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/heres-a-rare-glimpse-of-the-f-35as-internal-25mm-cannon-1717843225

This is not a view you get very often. It’s the F-35A’s GAU-22/A 25mm internal cannon opened up for the world to see its mechanical firing process, including the barrels hydraulically spinning up, the low-observable gun door and the vent door popping open. And of course lots of smoke and flames.
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And,
A site I like to frequent points out that in armored
warfare the strength and armor of the tank is less
important than the crew.

From this site :

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http://breakingdefense.com/2015/07/what-the-f-35-v-f-16-dogfight-really-means-think-pilots/

Let’s be clear: an F-16 did not beat an F-35 in a dogfight. Instead, an experienced pilot in an F-16 beat a less experienced pilot in an F-35.
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The article does point out that the complexity of the
F-35 means the pilots will have an uphill battle
becoming proficient enough to make good use of the
plane.

Zim.

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