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UK Ready To Ditch STOVL F-35?
On Aug 10, 6:56*pm, wrote:
On Aug 11, 7:01*am, Jeb in Richmond wrote: The STOVL F-35 is not going to be capable of true vertical takeoff with any kind of payload I pair of AMRAAMs is all it needs to be a threat and I believe it can actually carry an additonal pair of smaller AAMs in the interior weapons bays. They were having a hard enough time with getting the empty weight where it needed to be to achieve hover. It's not as bad as X-32 was, but still. If you're planning on flying air-to-air with two missiles and a partial fuel load, then maybe it's acceptable, but there's a reason they're not calling this a VTOL airframe. I wonder how a short takeoff run will look in the F-35? Will they even swivel the exhaust or just rely on the lift fan to augment the wing lift? |
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