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Allora ..... diamoci un taglio .....

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Lockheed Martin on Monday unveiled a slate of new affordability initiatives meant to slash F-35 procurement and sustainment costs by billions of dollars.
The company will invest up to $170 million over the next two years to extend its existing “Blueprint for Affordability” measure, it announced at Farnborough International Airshow.
It is also starting a new program to reduce sustainability costs for the airplane by $1 billion over the next five years.
Fonte ..... "Lockheed Extends F-35 Cost-Cutting Initiative To Save Billions" .....
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At odds ..... :boxing:
The F-35 joint program office (JPO) is at odds with a US Air Force decision to consider a new ejection seat for the aircraft but will reluctantly study the cost and schedule implications of integrating another seat, the program’s top official said Saturday.
At issue is the Martin-Baker US16E ejection seat, which was found last year to cause severe and sometimes fatal neck injuries to lightweight pilots upon ejection.
Although Martin-Baker is implementing a number of fixes to their seat, the Air Force also wants the JPO to evaluate how certifying and integrating the United Technologies ACES 5 seat would impact the program.
Fonte ..... "F-35 Program Office at Odds With Air Force Over Ejection Seat" ..... :violent1:
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Farnborough ..... il 'Fulmine' e le 'Frecce' .....

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"FARNBOROUGH: Lightning strikes, brightening the gloom" .....

E ..... dopo di loro ..... il diluvio ..... "PICTURES: Air show rain of terror" .....

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Se ci fosse stato LUI ..... ovvero ..... un 'report' tutto italiano ..... :mrgreen:
As the F-35 makes its debut in the UK, an Italian think tank has claimed that if Italy had used the fighter in its 2011 air campaign against Libya it would have saved €100 million (US $110 million).
In a report issued on the eve of the Farnborough air show, the Rome-based ICSA think tank issued a report analyzing the cost benefits of the F-35 for the Italian Air Force, which is due to order 90 of the jets.
The report takes Italy’s role in the 2011 NATO air campaign against Libya as a test case, analyzing the number and type of aircraft used.
Fonte ..... "Report: F-35 Would Have Saved Italy €100M in Libya" .....

Inoltre ..... "Libia, ecco potenza e risparmi degli F-35 per l’Italia" .....
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E LM si sta preparando a venderci ..... missili turchi ..... :x
Roketsan’s SOM-J cruise missile is on target to enter service with the Turkish air force’s future Lockheed Martin F-35As – and potentially those of other operators too – ­from the middle of the next decade, thanks to a strengthened relationship between the companies.
With an initial two-year assessment phase successfully completed, Lockheed and Roketsan officials used the Farnborough air show to sign a new agreement, to both finalise SOM-J’s development and integration with the stealthy fighter, and support its promotion to other customers.
Fonte ..... "FARNBOROUGH: Lockheed, Roketsan strengthen SOM-J missile pact" .....

Che se li comperino gli Americani ..... :evil:
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Voce del verbo ' DIALOGARE ' .....
The Air Force is rapidly prototyping a number of hardware solutions to get the F-22 and F-35 to talk with each other and the rest of the combat air forces and still stay stealthy, Air Combat Command chief Gen. Hawk Carlisle said.
"In two to three years, you'll see the fielding of some of this stuff," Carlisle told reporters.
Fonte ..... "Whole Lotta Prototyping Going On" .....
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Ad Agosto ..... sulla George Washington .....
The US Navy’s F-35C will head back to the seas next month for the third round of developmental tests aboard the aircraft carrier George Washington, the F-35 program executive officer (PEO) said.
During a July 9 interview at the Royal International Air Tattoo, F-35 PEO Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan told Defense News the sea trials would take place off the East Coast of the United States.
"They're going to open up the full envelope of the airplane to land and take off from the carrier, which means things like heavyweight, asymmetric stores, heavy cross winds, high seas,” he said.
"Plus we'll do a lot of reliability, maintainability and maintenance administrations to make sure we get that right."
Fonte ..... "F-35C To Conduct Sea Trials in August Aboard Carrier George Washington" .....
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Software Block 3F ..... prima o poi funzionerà .....
Final Software Load Plagues F-35 Test Jets .....

Lara Seligman - Aerospace Daily & Defense Report (AW&ST) - July 11, 2016

RAF FAIRFORD, ENGLAND – The U.S. Air Force is on the verge of declaring its F-35 Joint Strike Fighters operational after resolving a software bug that caused the jets’ systems to stall out mid-flight and have to be rebooted.
But at Edwards Air Force Base, California, the development test (DT) team in charge of testing each new increment of software is now seeing the same shutdown events in the new Block 3F software – the final load needed to give the F-35 full combat capability.
The Air Force F-35As will reach initial operational capability (IOC) this year with a less mature version of F-35 software, called Block 3i, which does not include some key combat capabilities.
The final 3F software load will enable the full-up jets to deploy critical weapons such as the GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bomb, the GBU-31/32 Joint Direct Attack Munition, the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile the AIM-9X Sidewinder missile and the main gun system.
The Joint Program Office (JPO) is aiming to complete 3F DT by June 30, 2017, in time for the operational test (OT) team to begin testing the full-up jets – a key test period that is officially called initial operational test and evaluation (IOT&E) – that fall.
But the team at Edwards is already running low on schedule margin to move to IOT&E on time due to the months spent fixing the issues with the Air Force’s 3i software load.
Any unplanned discoveries on 3F could throw a wrench in the timeline.
DT pilots flying the 3F software loads at Edwards have recently experienced system glitches where the jets’ systems shut down and need to be rebooted, both during flight and on the ground, according to Marine Corps Lt. Col. Richard Rusnok, F-35 detachment officer in charge at VMX-1.
However, he cautioned against reading too much into these “anomalies,” arguing that such events are not uncommon for fighter jets across the fleet.
It is normal to see challenges during developmental testing, he stressed.
“When Microsoft or Apple put out software, the thing you don’t see as a consumer is all the frustration that goes on in the background,” Rusnok told Aviation Week.
“That’s why we’re doing it, right, otherwise if everything was perfect all the time then we’d never have to do flight test and I’d be out of a job.”
Jeff Babione, Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program manager, acknowledged that the initial releases of the 3F software “regressed slightly” compared to the finished 3i load.
However, the team “fully anticipated” this challenge and is working to resolve it, he told Aviation Week.
The “choking effect” seen in earlier versions of 3i was caused in essence by a timing misalignment of the software of the plane’s sensors and the software of its main computers.
But the issues on 3F are down to the software of the systems themselves, for instance the radar, Babione said.
“So think of, how the radar actually does what the radar needs to do – those are more what I’d call software glitches, not stability issues,” Babione said.
The new glitches occurred after Lockheed added a new feature in the 3F software, Babione explained.
Lockheed incorporated a solution and released a new version of 3F July 1, but Babione said he has not seen the latest tests results that will show whether or not the fix worked as planned.
“At the end of the day what I’m highly confident of is it will be everything they want and the stability will be on par with what we are seeing on 3i,” Babione said.
The JPO signed off on the Block 3i software in May, and recently began retrofitting the fleet with the improved load.
The team will need to retrofit the jets again with the full 3F load once development is complete.
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Final F-35 Software Twice as Good .....

John A. Tirpak - Daily Report (AFA) - July 14, 2016

Farnborough, UK — There are far fewer problems with the objective 3F block of F-35 software, now more than two-thirds through flight testing, than there were in earlier iterations, program director Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan said Monday at a Farnborough Air Show press conference.
"The issues we saw early in the 2B and 3i versions" of the software, which allowed the Marine Corps to declare operational capability a year ago and which will equip the Air Force's first operational jets next month, were "far more substantial than the issues we have with the 3F now."
There is much less software instability, he said, and the software is "twice as good" now, even before testing is complete, "than the 2B version" the Marines are flying with.
Even so, the 3F version adds "so much more capability" than the 2B/3i version, he said,.
The key now is to make sure all the "sensors and computers are communicating" with "no lags."
He acknowledged, however, that "we have no margin left" in developing the 3F software.
"We ate it all up."
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Determinazione o ..... semplice ottimismo ?

"F-35 Will Remain Advanced" .....
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I Marines hanno una priorità .....
The US Defense Department is hammering out the final details of its Block 4 upgrade plan for the F-35 joint strike fighter, but the Marine Corps has made clear that Raytheon’s Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB II) is at the top of its wish list.
Asked by journalists at the Royal International Air Tattoo what he’d most like to see in the modernization program, Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Jon Davis, deputy commandant for aviation, characterized the SDB II as the most critical system.
“That's a fantastic weapon,” he said July 8.
“I want to get it on there and really increase the capability of the airplane."
Fonte ..... "Marine Corps Aviation Chief Ranks SDB II as F-35 Upgrade Priority" .....
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richelieu ha scritto:Mountain Home AFB ..... il Lightning II passa i tests a vele spiegate .....
Col. David Lyons, commander of the 388th Fighter Wing at Hill AFB, Utah, said a June 6-17 deployment of seven F-35As to Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, “proved” the fighter can deploy, operate, and fight.
During the evaluation, the Autonomic Logistics and Information System (ALIS), “performed the way it was supposed to,” and he reported “zero” problems with the jet’s 3i software, with no need to reboot it.
“We flew 88 of 88 scheduled sorties,” Lyons said, flying both alongside and against F-16s and F-15Es in a variety of scenarios against a representative heavy air defense system.
Ho appena letto sul blog WIB (che mi pare sia notoriamente anti JSF) un articolo piuttosto critico nei confronti dei risultati sbandierati dall'USAF :-k
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MatteF88 ha scritto:
richelieu ha scritto:Mountain Home AFB ..... il Lightning II passa i tests a vele spiegate .....
Col. David Lyons, commander of the 388th Fighter Wing at Hill AFB, Utah, said a June 6-17 deployment of seven F-35As to Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, “proved” the fighter can deploy, operate, and fight.
During the evaluation, the Autonomic Logistics and Information System (ALIS), “performed the way it was supposed to,” and he reported “zero” problems with the jet’s 3i software, with no need to reboot it.
“We flew 88 of 88 scheduled sorties,” Lyons said, flying both alongside and against F-16s and F-15Es in a variety of scenarios against a representative heavy air defense system.


Ho appena letto sul blog WIB (che mi pare sia notoriamente anti JSF) un articolo piuttosto critico nei confronti dei risultati sbandierati dall'USAF
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Lì per lì mi sono chiesto cosa diavolo fosse quel blog WIB ..... :scratch:
Poi mi sono rammentato di War is Boring ..... che è da un bel pò di tempo che non visitavo .....
L'articolo di cui parlavi dovrebbe essere questo .....

"Untangling the Claims Behind the Air Force’s F-35 Media Blitz" .....

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Ehh pardon, sì è proprio quello, non ho linkato :oops:
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"It’s a bomb truck" .....
The F-35 is sleek and stealthy, thanks to internally-carried weapons, but that limits the operational payload and the jet’s air-to-ground capability, correct?
To some extent, that is true, but here’s an alternative view.
It’s a bomb truck, capable of carrying 14,000 pounds–that’s 3,000 pounds more than my F-18s,” said Lt. General Jon Davis, head of aviation for the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC).
Fonte ..... "F-35 Packs a Punch" .....
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La presenza nel Regno Unito è stata un successo ..... però .....
But there is still much work to do.
The F-35’s sensors remain frozen at technical specifications developed early in the last decade, and a comprehensive refresh is necessary as soon as possible.
A global fleet must perform coalition operations, but the US government still has not found a way to easily share information between an international F-35 formation in-flight.
The logistics and maintenance systems are badly dysfunctional and late, and Lockheed must deliver on time as the production rate roughly quadruples by 2019.
Fonte ..... "OPINION: F-35's Farnborough debut a welcome lift" .....
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Le voci circolavano da tempo .....
Sembra ora che l' interesse delle Forze Aeree israeliane per la versione STOVL del velivolo stia crescendo in modo considerevole .....
Israel's potential acquisition of the short take-off and vertical landing B-model of Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter, to complement its ordered fleet of F-35As, has gained further momentum following a recent strategic assessment.
Fonte ..... "Israel further assesses F-35B buy" .....
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F-35A ..... la IOC si avvicina ..... ma che fatica !
The US Air Force now has the minimum number of 12 Lockheed Martin F-35A fighters with completed modifications required before the first squadron can be declared initially capable for operations, service officials announced on 13 July.
Since 2013, the USAF has planned to declare initial operational capability (IOC) with 12-24 F-35As assigned to the 34th Fighter Squadron at Hill AFB, Utah, from 1 August to 31 December this year.
But that timeframe appeared to be threatened with the discovery of a faulty fuel tank last September.
In certain flight conditions, USAF testers found that air can enter the siphon fuel tank, potentially causing the tank to over-pressurise and rupture in-flight.
Fonte ..... "USAF completes F-35A modifications required for IOC" .....
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Secondo questa fonte ..... a Fairford ..... non sono riusciti a stupire .....

"Lightning strikes thrice but fails to ‘wow!’ at Fairford" .....
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Questa é l'esibizione dell"F-35A, abbastanza fiappa, non proprio da "wow" :)
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Turchia, LM e ..... F-35 .....
A quanto pare, negli USA, non sanno che pesci prendere .....
A failed military coup last week will not affect Lockheed Martin’s business relationship with Turkey, though it could be too early to make that call, according to top Lockheed Martin executives.
In a Tuesday earnings call, Lockheed’s chief executive, Marillyn Hewson, and chief financial officer, Bruce Tanner, offered different views over whether recent events in Turkey would affect Lockheed’s business deals there.
Fonte ..... "F-35 impact from unrest in Turkey unclear: Lockheed" .....
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Gli F-35B dei Marines partecipano alla Red Flag 16-3 .....

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For the first time, the United States Marine Corps will be participating with their F-35B during the three-week Red Flag 16-3 exercise at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.
With the Marine Corps bringing this multi-role, next generation fighter, this year’s 16-3 iteration of Red Flag marks a historic moment in the Air Force’s premier air combat training exercise.
Working with multiple branches, the F-35B, assigned to the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121, which is part of 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing and based out of Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, will be an intricate part of the demanding exercise that provides aircrews with multiple and intense air combat sorties in a controlled training environment.
Fonte ..... "First-ever: Marine F-35B takes part in Red Flag 16-3" .....
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Turchia, LM e ..... F-35 .....
LM procede secondo i programmi ..... poi qualche 'santo' provvederà .....
As the US government navigates its tenuous relationship with Turkey following a botched military coup last week, Lockheed Martin is forging ahead with its planned production of the first two F-35As for Turkey.
Turkey would receive its first two jets in Lot 10 of low-rate initial production (LRIP).
Lockheed is not assembling those aircraft yet in the factory, but assembly should begin within the next six to 12 months, Lockheed spokesman Mike Rein confirmed to FlightGlobal.
Fonte ..... "Lockheed confirms Turkey’s F-35s in early stages of production" .....
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I quattrini non bastan mai ..... se poi a dirlo è LM ..... :mrgreen:
Lockheed Martin has notified the US Department of Defense (DoD) that current funding levels for the F-35 Lightning II are "insufficient", the company's CEO, Marillyn Hewson, said in a conference call with analysts on 20 July following the release of the company's second-quarter results.
Fonte ..... " Lockheed Martin says F-35 funding 'insufficient' " .....
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Il Lightning II e ..... la bomba ..... :eeeeek:

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Equipping the Air Force’s F-35A with nuclear weapons would not lower the threshold of their use, Lt. Gen. Jack Weinstein, the deputy chief of staff for strategic deterrence and nuclear integration, said Thursday.
“Using nuclear weapons is a decision made by the President of the United States, nobody else,” Weinstein said during an AFA-sponsored, Air Force breakfast in Arlington, Va
Fonte ..... "A Matter of Perception" .....
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L' incerto futuro degli F-35 turchi .....
Turkey’s F-35 order is unlikely to escape attention.
The stealthy, supersonic aircraft packed with some of the West’s most sensitive electronic capabilities is the prize of the US government’s catalogue of exportable weapon systems, and Turkey’s access has been guaranteed by membership in NATO.
But when US Secretary of State John Kerry says the Alliance is “scrutinising” Turkey’s actions against the coup plotters, that language comes with an implied warning.
Fonte ..... " OPINION: Could instability threaten Turkey's F-35 ambitions ? " .....
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L' USAF manda alle lunghe la firma in dei contratti LRIP 9 e 10 ..... e LM deve sborsare di tasca sua .....
Drawn out contractual negotiations for lots 9 and 10 of the F-35 have left Lockheed Martin paying out of pocket for joint strike fighter costs, the company disclosed July 19.
Lockheed has spent nearly $1 billion to pay out suppliers who have already started doing work on F-35 low rate initial production (LRIP) lots 9 and 10, the company’s chief financial officer Bruce Tanner said Tuesday during a quarterly earnings call.
Fonte ..... "Lockheed's Cash Flow Hurt by Stalled F-35 Negotiations" .....
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Dopo le manifestazioni aeree nel Regno Unito .....
What follows is a roundup of news about the F-35 that was generated around the RIAT and the Farnborough airshows.
AIN reported on the major announcements and briefings last week, both online and in the printed editions of Farnborough Airshow News.
Fonte ..... "More F-35 News from RIAT and Farnborough" .....
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Al lavoro ..... insieme .....
Commanders of operational F-22 Raptor wings and leaders of the emerging F-35A Lightning II units met at JB Langley-Eustis, Va., to discuss joint training, maintenance, manpower, and strategies to help integrate the F-35s into the joint team.
Col. Pete Fesler, 1st Fighter Wing commander, said the two aircraft have “incredible capability” and were designed to work together.
Fonte ..... "Fifth Gen Fighters Plan Integration" .....
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F-35A ..... lunedi la IOC .....
The Air Force will declare initial operational capability of the F-35A as early as Monday, meeting a goal set three years ago.
Leaders of the F-35A enterprise at Hill AFB, Utah, on Wednesday told reporters in a teleconference that “all the boxes have been checked off” of the requirements for declaring IOC.
“We have achieved all our milestones,” 388th Maintenance Group Deputy Commander Lt. Col. Steven Anderson said, and “we have submitted all the data to Air Combat Command” for ACC chief Gen. Hawk Carlisle to make the declaration official.
Fonte ..... "F-35 IOC Imminent" .....

Qualche numero .....
There are 222 F-35A maintainers at Hill AFB, Utah, now, and 150 more are in the pipeline, handily beating requirements for initial operational capability for the new fighter, Lt. Col. Steven Anderson, 388th Maintenance Group deputy commander, told reporters in a telecon Wednesday.
The ALIS (Autonomic Logistics Information System), which has been problematic in recent months, is up to the task of supporting a six-ship deployment, as required for IOC, he said, and will improve in the months and years to come.
Fonte ..... "IOC by the Numbers" .....
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Più stealth di così ..... :offtheair:
The F-35 Lightning II is so stealthy, pilots are facing an unusual challenge.
They're having difficulty participating in some types of training exercises, a squadron commander told reporters Wednesday.
During a recent exercise at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, F-35 squadrons wanted to practice evading surface-to-air threats.
There was just one problem: No one on the ground could track the plane.
“If they never saw us, they couldn’t target us,” said Lt. Col. George Watkins, the commander of the 34th Fighter Squadron at Hill Air Force Base, Utah.
Fonte ..... "The F-35 is so stealthy, it produced training challenges, pilot says" .....
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Un F-35A ha tirato già un drone ..... sparandogli contro un Sidewinder ..... ma, poco prima, aveva lanciato anche un AMRAAM .....
An Air Force F-35A in late July got its first air-to-air kill, taking out an aerial drone with an externally mounted AIM-9X missile.
The F-35A, piloted by Air Force Maj. Raven LeClair, on July 28 identified and targeted the drone with mission sensors, passed the “track” information to the missile, and the pilot was able to target the drone with the high off-boresight capability of the helmet-mounted display, according to a news release from the F-35 Joint Program Office.
Fonte ..... "F-35A Gets First Live Air-to-Air Kill in Testing" .....
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richelieu ha scritto:Un F-35A ma, poco prima, aveva lanciato anche un AMRAAM .....
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During the same exercise, LeClair fired an AIM-120C Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM, carried internally, to take out another drone. This was a miss, however, as the drone target was out of visual range.

http://www.dodbuzz.com/2016/08/01/air-f ... kill-test/
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Hirotome ha scritto:
richelieu ha scritto:Un F-35A ma, poco prima, aveva lanciato anche un AMRAAM .....
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During the same exercise, LeClair fired an AIM-120C Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM, carried internally, to take out another drone.
This was a miss, however, as the drone target was out of visual range.


http://www.dodbuzz.com/2016/08/01/air-f ... kill-test/
Boh ..... c'è chi la racconta in modo leggermente diverso .....
Immediately prior to launching the AIM-9X, LeClair employed an internally carried AIM-120C missile against another target drone.
This target was beyond visual range and the AIM-120C was given a successful self-destruct signal right before target impact.
Questa precisazione è presente nel link "news release" contenuto nel mio precedente post ..... ma, forse, essa ti è sfuggita .....

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USAF ..... IOC ..... come previsto .....
The Air Force on Tuesday declared its first squadron of F-35As ready for battle, fifteen years after Lockheed Martin won the contract to make the plane.
The milestone means that the service can now send its first operational F-35 formation — the 34th Fighter Squadron located at Hill Air Force Base, Utah — into combat operations anywhere in the world.
The service, which plans to buy 1,763 F-35As, is the single-largest customer of the joint strike fighter program, which also includes the U.S. Marine Corps, Navy and a host of governments worldwide.
Fonte ..... "Air Force Declares F-35A Ready For Combat" .....
I am proud to announce this powerful new weapons system has achieved initial combat capability,” Carlisle said.
The F-35A will be the most dominant aircraft in our inventory because it can go where our legacy aircraft cannot and provide the capabilities our commanders need on the modern battlefield.”
Fonte ..... USAF ..... " AF declares the F-35A ‘combat ready’ " .....

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IOC ..... il commento di Flightglobal .....
Five years after the projected initial operational capability (IOC) date, the Air Force has declared the first 15 Lockheed Martin F-35As assigned to the 34th Fighter Squadron at Hill AFB are capable of performing a basic set of combat missions.
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In a 2 August media briefing at the Pentagon, the US Air Force’s chief of Air Combat Command Gen Herbert "Hawk" Carlisle tempered the milestone announcement, saying the aircraft still needs significant work that will come with impending software and hardware upgrades.
Carlisle hailed the F-35’s ability to gather information, fuse data from multiple sources and increase the pilot’s situational awareness.
But several of the capabilities that are supposed to make the aircraft the giant, flying sensor the Air Force has billed will not come online until software blocks 3F and 4 are available in 2018 and 2021, respectively.
L' articolo ..... "USAF declares F-35A ready for limited combat" .....

Inoltre ..... alcuni articoli apparsi sulla pagina odierna del Daily Report dell' AFA .....

"F-35A is Combat Ready" .....

"The F-35’s Limits" .....

"Keep the Numbers Up" .....

"Luke Stands Up Third F-35 Squadron" .....

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