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Autolandings
SUBS17:
Semi stealth as in the RCS of a basketball was on the news a year or so ago for all export versions, hopefully they went and changed it to the same as the US version.
SpazSinbad:
SUBS17, you seem determined to get this thread scrubbed. All the F-35 stealth is the same have a look at the material online rather than just repeat your nonsense.
SUBS17:
A few years ago there was a big crisis in the development of the F35 because the US decided to make the export versions RADAR CROSS SECTION that of a basketball size. It was not well recieved by either the UK or Australia or its other export customers. To compare a basketball RCS to the F117 has an RCS of that of a pebble. Hopefully that explains it a bit better I'm not trying to scrub any threads as I like the F35 as well.
SpazSinbad:
SUBS17 you can repeat B/S here without any reference all you like. At least I provide references. Yes I have not provided specific references because for one thing this forum is about the Hornet and this thread is about 'automatic landings' (by F-35) and plenty of earlier threads have been scrubbed because they are not about the Hornet. I can see you have not read the F-35 material provided online.
SUBS17:
Its not actual BS, just a very old topic that I read a few years ago it mentioned a few other problems with the JSF including the US refusing to allow other countrys the source code as well. About the same time it was mentioned somewhere of the export JSF having an RCS of a basketball. I now know however that the JSF RCS is actually a steel golf ball which is quite good. Not as good as the F/A-22/F117 which is a pebble. Its early days yet and no doubt the Basketball RCS may have been a rumour on one of the many forums I frequent which is why I mentioned it. Compare the export version to Russian exports they are normally not as good as the Russian version(Eritrea-Ethiopea war comes to mind) thank fully though the differences now are probably the other features which never get mentioned.
The software thing could be a problem for auto-landing and Hotas/MFD functions but it looks like the JSF has plug n play for versions like the IDF which have some of their own special gadgets on most of their aircraft types.
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