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Inside the US Super Advanced Billions $ F-16 And F-35 Assembly Line II Fluctus

Why is America Buying the F-15EX Instead of More F-35s? (Credits- Military TV)

Why This Controversial Jet May Cost $1.7 Trillion | True Cost (Credits- Business Insider)

ISRAEL warn Russia ! Invisibility and jammimg system of f-35 makes the S-400 useless (Credits- Today News Post)

F-15EX vs. F-35 Fighter (Which Is Better?) (Credits- Military TV)

LEAKED CRASH VIDEO OF BRITISH F-35B SHOWS JET DROPPING OFF CARRIER RAMP || 2021 (CREDITS- WARTHOG DEFENSE)

Su 57 Sukhoi and Lockheed martin F35 comparison (Credits- Jetline Marvel)

F 35 C Stealth Fighter Will Be the Star of the Navy’s Sea Strategy (Credits- Military of USA)

RAF F-35B Lightning and HMS Queen Elizabeth on Exercise Atlantic Trident (Credits- Royal Air Force)

British F-35Bs landing on HMS Queen Elizabeth (Credits- UK Defence Journal)

Meet the most fascinating part of the F-35: The $400,000 helmet (Credits- Military TV)

S-400 vs F-35 What will happen? (Credits- Military TV)

Revolutionary F-35 Fighter Reaches Its Most Important Milestone ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Loren B. Thompson)

USAF F-35 in flight ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / USAF) Source- The National Interest Author- Loren B. Thompson Fifteen years after development began and ten years after it first took flight, the F-35 fighter is operational with the U.S. Air Force.  This week's announcement of initial operational capability for the F-35A is arguably the most important milestone in the tri-service fighter's evolution, because the Air Force will buy over 70% of the plane's domestic production run (1,763 of 2,443 aircraft), and its variant is the version that the vast majority of overseas allies will acquire. (Editor's Note: The U.S. Air Force IOC announcement is anticipated for Aug. 2 - DM) So it is no exaggeration to say that the Air Force buy is the linchpin of the whole program.  Without it, the cost of Navy and Marine Corps variants would be prohibitive.  The economies of scale generated by purchasing three variants with high commonality to meet the future t

Russia's PAK FA Stealth Fighter: The US Air Force's Worst Nightmare? ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Robert Farley)

Sukhoi PAK FA ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / Rulexip) Source- The National Interest Author- Robert Farley The PAK FA has played the bugbear for Western air forces for nearly a decade, the terrifying Russian jet that will eat F-35s for breakfast. American aviation analysts in search of something, anything that might threaten U.S. air dominance settled on the PAK FA, a frankly evil looking jet that bore a very mild resemblance to the MiG-31 “Firefox” that Clint Eastwood made famous. Say what you will about the F-35, but Lockheed Martin has actually built and delivered one hundred and seventy one aircraft thus far.  The Russian Air Force, meanwhile, has yet to receive its first PAK FA.  In lieu of the PAK FA, Russia has continued to acquire generation 4.5 fighters (mostly of the Flanker family) as well as upgrading generation 4 fighters (including various Flankers, the MiG-29 Fulcrum, and the MiG-31 Foxhound). Sukhoi will likely never build the number of fighters

The F-35 Stealth Fighter: Too Good For War Games? ( Source- The National Inerest / Author- David Axe)

F-35 A ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / USAF) Source- The National Interest Author- David Axe It’s no secret that we at War Is Boring are skeptics when it comes to the F-35 Lightning II. The new, radar-evading, “fifth-generation” warplane is years late, over-budget and — by virtue of its many, sometimes contradictory missions — represents a design compromise, meaning it’s okay at lots of tasks but excels at none of them. Still, the U.S. military plans to replace nearly all of its current tactical jets with as many as 2,400 F-35s at a total program cost, including maintenance, of around $1 trillion. The U.S. Air Force, one of the F-35’s main proponents, is understandably optimistic about the single-engine, supersonic fighter — at least in public. Perhaps the strongest recent endorsement came from William Redmond, the executive director of the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In an unclassified presentation, Redmo

F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Is More Than Just Stealth: It’s a 'Flying Antenna' ( Source- The National Interest / Author- James Hasik)

F-35 ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / USAF) Source- The National Interest Author- James Hasik The Danish fighter competition is over, it would seem, as the parliament has officially approved a program for 27 F-35 Lightning IIs. As I noted last week, the purchase price remains indeterminate, so the Danish Defense Ministry may be seriously unprepared for the final bill, if it’s really taking seriously the source-selection team’s calculations. As I wrote earlier this week, it's hard to see how F-35As will cost to procure and fly than F-18Es. In Canada, the Trudeau Government seems sharply opposed to the F-35, strongly preferring the F-18E, and largely on cost. In the long run, though, it’s just possible that pursuit of the Joint Strike Fighter could be a low-cost option for air forces. Seriously—read on. As recently as this May, the Canadian Department of National Defence may have been wondering whether the F-18E would even be available. That’s one reason why Ot

The F-35 Stealth Fighter's Dirty Little Secret Is Now Out in the Open ( Source- The National Interest / Author- David Axe)

USAF F-35 ( Image credits- VOA) Source- The National Interest Author- David Axe The U.S. Senate just confirmed what an Air Force general hinted at in February 2016 — and which should have been obvious for years to close observers of U.S. air power. The Joint Strike Fighter program is not developing one, common warplane for the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps and the air arms of America’s closest allies. No, the Joint Strike Fighter is actually three different plane designs sharing a basic cockpit, engine and software and a logistical network. The Air Force’s F-35A, the Marines’ F-35B and the Navy’s F-35C should, in all fairness, be the F-35, F-36 and F-37. “Despite aspirations for a joint aircraft, the F-35A, F-35B and F-35C are essentially three distinct aircraft, with significantly different missions and capability requirements,” the Senate stated in its version of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2017. Before the act becomes law, the Se

What Would China Do if America Sold Taiwan F-35s? ( Source- The National Interest / Authors- Nicholas Butts & Jared McKinney)

Lockheed Martin F-35 ( Image credits- VOA) Source- The National Interest Author-  Nicholas Butts , Jared McKinney A Taiwanese fighter jet on a routine patrol collides with a Chinese drone and crashes into the South China Sea; the pilot is killed. In response, the Republic of China Air Force, which for some time has been asking for upgraded planes, presses for a new arms package from America. Despite promising to maintain peace and stability in cross-Strait relations a little over a year ago in her victory speech, Tsai Ing-Wen, Taiwan’s president, is faced with growing pressure to respond strongly. A concerned Legislative Yuan authorizes major defense budget increases (overcoming budget difficulties) aimed at acquiring the F-35. Eager to signal that the rebalance she spearheaded in the Obama administration is returning in full force, newly elected president Hillary Clinton (following the advice of hawkish media commentators) directs the Defense Department to sell Taipei fi

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: One of America's Worst Fighter Jets Ever? ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Dave Majumdar)

Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / United States Department of Defense Source- The National Interest Author- Dave Majumdar The United States has built many great fighters over the years. The P-51 Mustang, the F4U Corsair, F-86 Sabre, F-15 Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon and the F-22 are among the best warplanes this country has ever produced. This article is not about those machines. There have been plenty of times when American ingenuity has fallen flat on its face. This article is about the dregs of U.S. warplane designs—the worst of the worst. But from each of these failures, we can learn something and make sure it never happens again. It’s only a failure of you don’t learn something from it. Bell P-59 Airacomet: Bell’s P-59 Aircomet was America’s first attempt at building a jet fighter. However, compared to its British and German contemporaries—the Gloster Meteor and the Messerschmitt Me 262—the P-59 was an abysmal failure. In fact, during tests against Lo

Beyond the F-35: 3 Things Canada Should Consider For Its Next Fighter ( Source- The National Interest / Author- James Hasik)

F-35 ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / United States Navy) Source- The National Interest Author- James Hasik Last week’s federal electoral victory by Canada's Liberals probably means the end of the F-35A as a prospective fighter jet for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). The immediate bad news accrues to Lockheed Martin, which stands to lose $6 billion in future revenue, and its remaining customers, for whom smaller volumes will mean as much as one percent more per production aircraft. The remaining longer-term question is what this means for Canada; U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch, after all, called the decision “stupid.”  But it’s not that prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau is outrightly refusing the stealthy airplane. Rather, he’s promising an open competition on a much smaller budget, presumably now for a twin-engined jet, which pretty much restricts the race to Boeing’s F-18E/F Super Hornet and Dassault’s Rafale C/B. The philosophies behind those aircraft