Re:How the F-35 triggered TOPGUNs Biggest Syllabus Revamp in...
by redis_mlc on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:00PM
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Agreed, this article is a nothing burger.
The US air doctrine (excluding Marines) is air dominance at any cost, hence the F-22 and F-35 prices. We'll see how well that works with such small inventories. (Less than 200 F-22's were made.)
For those not familiar with current stealth, it absorbs radar, so are invisible to normal radar detection.
Re:How the F-35 triggered TOPGUNs Biggest Syllabus Revamp in...
by scarier on Thursday July 09, 2020 @11:59PM
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A couple of minor quibbles: The Marine Corps has an absolutely massive investment in the F-35 program, implying a willingness to risk a core mission set (FW CAS) in favor of the things the F-35 is good at.
Also, there's a lot more to stealth than radar absorption--arguably, the cornerstone of the technology is aircraft shaping to reflect radar returns in a direction away from the transmitter.
Re:How the F-35 triggered TOPGUNs Biggest Syllabus Revamp in...
by imtringued on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:09AM
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Almost invisible and only to the type of radar it has been tuned against which usually means the fire control radar of fighters and missiles.
Every comment about the content of the syllabus is speculative: >"Other changes the F-35C is likely to bring to the existing TOPGUN course include.." >"It’s very possible that TOPGUN has introduced tactics that.." >"The long-range BVR engagements are likely to be where the biggest changes have come.." >"The length of the course suggests that the F-35C syllabus likely follows that of the Super Hornet in terms of core elements.."
All it is really saying is:
TOPGUN has graduated its first two F-35C pilots. Under current structures, these pilots will return to their units, and likely share some of what they've learned. Their training was likely based on the existing Super Hornet training but redeveloped to suit the F-35C, which serves a different combat role.
The rest reads like some bastard child of an undergraduate essay and attempts at SEO.
I resent that so much of the web has become this amplification of an ounce of signal into a ton of noise.