How the F-35 triggered TOPGUNs Biggest Syllabus Revamp in 4 decades

Re:How the F-35 triggered TOPGUNs Biggest Syllabus Revamp in... by redis_mlc on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:00PM (#23787398)

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.

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Re:How the F-35 triggered TOPGUNs Biggest Syllabus Revamp in... by scarier on Thursday July 09, 2020 @11:59PM (#23788008)

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.

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Re:How the F-35 triggered TOPGUNs Biggest Syllabus Revamp in... by imtringued on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:09AM (#23788971)

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.

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