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| F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by mazeltov(m): 7:47pm On Apr 29, 2016 |
[img]https://4.bp..com/-PcZhXnQOG8I/VyMp6Ku0GEI/AAAAAAABIlc/4HbCitLMRMUnBeh7EcINrlANMgHKreDDwCLcB/s640/integratedairdef.jpg[/img] The Air Force F-35 is using “open air” ranges and computer simulation to practice combat missions against the best Chinese and Russian-made air-defense technologies – as a way to prepare to enemy threats anticipated in the mid-2020s and beyond. The testing is aimed at addressing the most current air defense system threats such as Russian-made systems and also focused on potential next-generation or yet-to-exist threats, Harrigian said. Air Force officials have explained that, looking back to 2001 when the JSF threat started, the threats were mostly European centric – Russian made SA-10s or SA-20s. Now the future threats are looking at both Russian and Chinese-made and Asian made threats, they said. “They have got these digital SAMS (surface-to-air-missile-systems) out there that can change frequencies and they are very agile in how they operate. being able to replicate that is not easy,” Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, Director of the F-35 Integration Office, told Scout Warrior in an interview. Surface threats from air defenses is a tough problem because emerging threats right now can see aircraft hundreds of miles away, service officials explained. Furthermore, emerging and future Integrated Air Defense Systems use faster computer processors, are better networked to one-another and detect on a wider range of frequencies. These attributes, coupled with an ability to detect aircraft at further distances, make air defenses increasingly able to at times detect even stealth aircraft, in some instances, with surveillance radar. While the Air Force aims to prepare for the unlikely contingency of a potential engagement with near-peer rivals such as Russia or China, Harrigian explained that there is much more concern about having to confront an adversary which has purchased air-defense technology from the Russians or Chinese. Harrigian emphasized that, while there is no particular conflict expected with any given specific country, the service wants to be ready for any contingency. Harrigian explained that the F-35 is engineered with what developers call “open architecture,” meaning it is designed to quickly integrate new weapons, software and avionics technology as new threats emerge. “One of the key reasons we bought this airplane is because the threats continue to evolve - we have to be survivable in this threat environment that has continued to develop capabilities where they can deny us access to specific objectives that we may want to achieve. This airplane gives us the ability to penetrate, deliver weapons and then share that information across the formation that it is operating in,” Harrigian explained. While training against the best emerging threats in what Harrigian called “open air” ranges looks to test the F-35 against the best current and future air defenses – there is still much more work to be done when it comes to anticipating high-end, high-tech fast developing future threats. This is where modeling and simulation play a huge part in threat preparation, he added. “The place where we have to have the most agility is really in the modeling and simulation environment - If you think about our open air ranges, we try to build these ranges that have this threats that we expect to be fighting. Given the pace at which the enemy is developing these threats - it becomes very difficult for us to go out and develop these threats,” Harrigan explained.The Air Force plans to bring a representation of next-generation threats and weapons to its first weapons school class in 2018. In a simulated environment, F-22s from Langley AFB in Virginia could train for combat scenarios with an F-35 at Nellis AFB, Nevada, he said. The JSF’s Active Electronically Scanned Arrays, or AESA’s, the aircraft is able to provide a synthetic aperture rendering of air and ground pictures. The AESA also brings the F-35 electronic warfare capabilities, Harrigian said. Part of the idea with F-35 modernization is to engineered systems on the aircraft which can be upgraded with new software as threats change. Technologies such as the AESA radar, electronic attack and protection and some of the computing processing power on the airplane, can be updated to keep pace with evolving threats, Harrigian said. 
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| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by mazeltov(m): 8:13pm On Apr 29, 2016 |
Engineered to travel at speeds greater than 1,100 miles per hour and able to reach Mach 1.6, the JSF is said to be just as fast and maneuverable at an F-15 or F-16 and bring and a whole range of additional functions and abilities. Overall, the Air Force plans to buy 1,763 JSF F-35A multi-role fighters, a number which will ultimately comprise a very large percentage of the service’s fleet of roughly 2,000 fighter jets. So far, at least 83 F-35As are operational for the Air Force. 4th Software Drop Many of the JSF’s combat capabilities are woven into developmental software increments or “drops,” each designed to advance the platforms technical abilities. There are more than 10 million individual lines of code in the JSF system. While the Air Force plans to declare its F-345s operational with the most advanced software drop, called 3F, the service is already working on a 4th drop to be ready by 2020 or 2021. Following this initial drop, the aircraft will incorporate new software drops in two year increments in order to stay ahead of the threat. The first portion of Block IV software funding, roughly $12 million, arrived in the 2014 budget, Air Force officials said. Block IV will include some unique partner weapons including British weapons, Turkish weapons and some of the other European country weapons that they want to get on their own plane, service officials explained. Block IV will also increase the weapons envelope for the U.S. variant of the fighter jet. A big part of the developmental calculus for Block 4 is to work on the kinds of enemy air defense systems and weaponry the aircraft may face from the 2020’s through the 2040’s and beyond. In terms of weapons, Block IV will eventually enable the F-35 to fire cutting edge weapons systems such as the Small Diameter Bomb II and GBU-54 – both air dropped bombs able to destroy targets on the move. The Small Diameter Bomb II uses a technology called a “tri-mode” seeker, drawing from infrared, millimeter wave and laser-guidance. The combination of these sensors allows the weapon to track and eliminate moving targets in all kinds of weather conditions. These emerging 4th software drop will build upon prior iterations of the software for the aircraft.Block 2B builds upon the enhanced simulated weapons, data link capabilities and early fused sensor integration of the earlier Block 2A software drop. Block 2B will enable the JSF to provide basic close air support and fire an AMRAAM (Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile), JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) or GBU-12 (laser-guided aerial bomb) JSF program officials said. Following Block 2B, Block 3i increases the combat capability even further and Block 3F will bring a vastly increased ability to suppress enemy air defenses. Block 3F will increase the weapons delivery capacity of the JSF as well, giving it the ability to drop a Small Diameter Bomb, 500-pound JDAM and AIM 9X short-range air-to-air missile, service officials explained.  The AIM 9X is an Air Force and Navy heat-seeking infrared missile. In fact, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter fired an AIM-9X Sidewinder infrared-guided air-to-air missile for the first time recently over a Pacific Sea Test Range, Pentagon officials said. The F-35 took off from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and launched the missile at 6,000 feet, an Air Force statement said. Designed as part of the developmental trajectory for the emerging F-35, the test-firing facilities further development of an ability to fire the weapon “off-boresight,” described as an ability to target and destroy air to air targets that are not in front of the aircraft with a direct or immediate line of sight, Pentagon officials explained. The AIM-9X, he described, incorporates an agile thrust vector controlled airframe and the missile’s high off-boresight capability can be used with an advanced helmet (or a helmet-mounted sight) for a wider attack envelope. F-35 25mm Gun Last Fall, the Pentagon’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter recently completed the first aerial test of its 25mm Gatling gun embedded into the left wing of the aircraft, officials said. The test took place Oct. 30, 2015, in California, Pentagon officials described This milestone was the first in a series of test flights to functionally evaluate the in-flight operation of the F-35A’s internal 25mm gun throughout its employment envelope,” a Pentagon statement said several months ago. The Gatling gun will bring a substantial technology to the multi-role fighter platform, as it will better enable the aircraft to perform air-to-air attacks and close-air support missions to troops on the ground. Called the Gun Airborne Unit, or GAU-22/A, the weapon is engineered into the aircraft in such a manner as to maintain the platform’s stealth configuration. The four-barrel 25mm gun is designed for rapid fire in order to quickly blanket an enemy with gunfire and destroy targets quickly. The weapon is able to fire 3,300 rounds per minute, according to a statement from General Dynamics. “Three bursts of one 30 rounds and two 60 rounds each were fired from the aircraft’s four-barrel, 25-millimeter Gatling gun. In integrating the weapon into the stealthy F 35Aairframe, the gun must be kept hidden behind closed doors to reduce its radar cross section until the trigger is pulled,” a statement from the Pentagon’s Joint Strike Fighter said. The first phase of test execution consisted of 13 ground gunfire events over the course of three months to verify the integration of the gun into the F-35A, the JSF office said. “Once verified, the team was cleared to begin this second phase of testing, with the goal of evaluating the gun’s performance and integration with the airframe during airborne gunfire n various flight conditions and aircraft configurations,” the statement added. The new gun will also be integrated with the F-35’s software so as to enable the pilot to see and destroy targets using a helmet-mounted display. The gun is slated to be operational by 2017. |
| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by Nobody: 10:20pm On Apr 29, 2016 |
mazeltov: My priend, I hope you and your “Pentagram” Generals are aware that the Russian S-400Triumf Missiles - travel at Mach 6?  4 Likes |
| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by scully95: 2:00am On Apr 30, 2016 |
Zoharariel: You are right. It has several missiles and minimum is mach 6.. It's actually 6-14 depending on the speed of the target 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by 1Tkester: 5:49am On Apr 30, 2016 |
Zoharariel: I just find it laughable for Washington to be posturing in Eastern Europe with this junk of a plane. I ask, why cant Washington just take a simple bait laid by Putin and give Erdogan the F -35 junk and ask him to fly inside Syria as he used to do before, at least that will be the easiest thing to do, as this will confirm the effectiveness or otherwise of this metal... After all it was the US's F-16 that was used to gun down Russia's SU-24 fighter jet before. 2 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by seunny4lif(m): 8:03am On Apr 30, 2016 |
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| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by ValerianSteel(m): 8:53am On Apr 30, 2016 |
Zoharariel:Who compares Missile speed to a Fighter jets speed?Who does?Except of course the Kremlin clowns.Why then does a Mig or Su-27 flanker which flies at speed close to Mach3 not fly at Mach12. You also do know that Test Pilots do not publicly quote the max speed of new fighters so as to give Operational Fighter Pilots comfort on the known speed before pressing to top speed. The S-400 has a range of 400km while the F-35 current reported test status has a radar range of 1080km which could actually be 2000km when operational.Russia would need to do away with the Almaz/Antey radar currently in service for a more powerful radar that can out match Northrop Grumman's AN/APG81 AESA radar on the F-35. While I know stealth doesn't mean much to new Air Defense Systems,but a long reach radar does.In the case of the F-35 vs S-400,the ADS will be useless cause the F-35 will sniff it out first and definitely smoke it miles away before it sees the aircraft. |
| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by 1Tkester: 3:06pm On Apr 30, 2016 |
ValerianSteel: Senseless post, why can't America give turkey the F-35 and encourage them to fly inside Syria as they used to do before? 2 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by ValerianSteel(m): 3:21pm On Apr 30, 2016 |
1Tkester:Okay Mr Senseful poster,the question should be: Why can't Almighty Russia send a squadron of Su-24's into Turkish airspace again. I'm sure you guys are still crying over your December roasted Sukhois.Sorry about that but if Russia's got the balls let them enter Turkish airspace again and see America's all time powerful F-16's shoot them all down. BTW,Turkey will be receiving 100 units of the F-35 by next year. |
| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by 1Tkester: 3:56pm On Apr 30, 2016 |
ValerianSteel: And I know you didn't see this news! Turkey says Russia violated airspace again, summons ambassador http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/30/middleeast/russia-turkey-air-space/ 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by ValerianSteel(m): 4:02pm On Apr 30, 2016 |
1Tkester:So now you accept that Russia did violate Turkish airspace,thought you guys claimed Turkey was the aggressor and the Russian jets were shot over Syrian airspace,how Hillarious! BTW,wouldn't it have been too early to roast another Russian jet two weeks after the last one. |
| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by 1Tkester: 4:33pm On Apr 30, 2016 |
ValerianSteel: I think you're beginning to go off the tangent as usual. Here is your original post which I responded to: ValerianSteel: 2 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by ValerianSteel(m): 5:44pm On Apr 30, 2016 |
1Tkester:My post suggested that Russia wouldn't dare violate Turkish airspace again then you responded with a link from CNN to show Russia violated Turkish airspace after the fallen Su's event in December implying that Russia is not deterred from future airspace violations in Turkey. I know you guys lack both visual and comprehension skills,I just don't know which is worse cause it makes it hard to know who am talking to,the Minion or the programme in the minion. |
| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by 1Tkester: 7:44pm On Apr 30, 2016 |
ValerianSteel: You're such a fuc.king idiot... I see your arguments on nairaland severally, and I've discovered one thing with your dead brain postulations - that you've the highest penchant of always shifting the goal post whenever you start losing the game. Well, how do I start to blame a dead brain venom that you are. You said Russia should violate Turkeys airspace the second time and see if turkey won't react irrationally, I just showed you a proof that Russia did do that a second time and Erdogan kept quiet like a baby inside his mothers womb. I know in your deluded mind you would've chosen to be (mad cow) Erdogan who for his arrogance grounded his entire fleet, to the extent that his casual air violations of Syria has been put on indefinite suspension, something smaller countries like Quatar and UAE do with highest pleasure. I also know that in your faggoted mind you would've chosen to be Erdogan who for his grayish posturing has been knocked to irrelevance in the Middle East, to the extent that Iran is playing a bigger role in the M.E. than him. I also know that in your imbecilic brain you would have chosen to be Erdogan who for his showmanship has been reduced to nothingness, in that even the peace conference in Geneva both him and his men were not only invited but his suggestions through middlemen have been thrown off the window. I equally know that in your satanic mind you would have chosen to be like Erdogan who for his irrationality got the thriving business of his son - a business built in over three years with a monthly accruals of over $20million squashed by the Russian military airstrike in just two months. Off course the U.S. has been watching the Russians response to Erdogan's mumuness and they are startled to see the kind of asymmetrical response given to the incident by Putin, and the reponse is laced with serious consequences on both Erdogan's ability to project power in his near abroad and also his economic status. and as such they (the U.S) will not want to be rolled over like Erdogan, and that's why they've not attempted to be as stupid as you would want them to be. Because they know that the day they will shoot down Any Russian aircraft in the Black Sea will be the day they bid goodbye to the freedom of navigation they enjoy in the Black Sea. So they know what's up. I just wasted my precious time replying to an imb,ecile, no wonder you reasoning is idiotic. F.aggot. 5 Likes 4 Shares |
| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by mazeltov(m): 8:10pm On Apr 30, 2016 |
Zoharariel:I take no pleasure in exchanging Sagacity with ignorance. You posited yesterday that American B-2 spirit bomber was shot down by Russian old SAM and I asked you to provide the link for us to see and the video of how Russian SAM shot down B-2 grummen bomber but instead of you to shrink back to your shell with your water-logged brain, your further flaunted your vast scope of ignorance. Yes S-400 moves at mach 6 wchich is very dangerous for any aircraft/jet but let me ask you this simple question, do you know why the world refer to Israel as the best Airforce in the world? I bet you don't, well that is a story for another day. 1 Like |
| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by ValerianSteel(m): 10:03pm On Apr 30, 2016 |
mazeltov:You waste your time with these lots.No matter the detailed explanations you put up against their bullshit,it's dead on arrival cause they lack comprehension skills.If not for the sake of those who would view the thread and are liable to believe the piece of junk they post on this section,I wouldn't bother to reply them at times.Just so we don't peddle falsehood and misinformation I endeavor to reply the minions. |
| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by ValerianSteel(m): 10:10pm On Apr 30, 2016 |
1Tkester:You need to take a lecture on how to remain classy in a debate from Hillary Clinton.The freaking fvck you just posted now. What we talking about?What you ranting on? I know you lack civility but do you also lack a straight forward argumentative pattern.Guess you even lack it all,you can't read with your eyes,even when you do you do not comprehend.In the case you do comprehend you somehow choose to remain very retarded. Bye Bye and do not quote me again on this thread. 1 Like |
| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by 1Tkester: 10:14pm On Apr 30, 2016 |
ValerianSteel: May thunder wreck you to shreds, idio.t! I only blame your drunkard of a father for having a mongrel like you, something he could have prevented by a mere use of condom, now see The mistake he made in you. Lizard! 4 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by ValerianSteel(m): 10:30pm On Apr 30, 2016 |
1Tkester:You are nothing but a savage,vile,crude and repugnant human.Same with the others who found your comment worthy of a like. 1 Like |
| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by 1Tkester: 10:47pm On Apr 30, 2016 |
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| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by Missy89(f): 11:01pm On Apr 30, 2016 |
ValerianSteel: Ignore that simpleton 1 Like |
| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by 1Tkester: 11:22pm On Apr 30, 2016 |
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| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by 1Tkester: 11:23pm On Apr 30, 2016 |
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| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by ValerianSteel(m): 12:38am On May 01, 2016 |
Missy89:Most definitely,thanks. |
| Re: F35 Using Open Air Ranges And Simulation To Prepare To Fight Layered Integrated by 1Tkester: 1:01am On May 01, 2016 |
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