Details for F-35 in War With China

[rug]

For the first time, key officers lay out how they’d deploy the stealth F-35 and F-22 in an all-out war with China.



An Air Force F-22 Raptor (left) flies with an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter over Florida.

BY MARCUS WEISGERBER
JUNE 30, 2016

U.S. Air Force officials for the first time said publicly how they’re planning to use the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in a war with China.

The bottom line: a lot needs to change in the way the Air Force uses its warplanes in battle.

“If you put a fourth-[generation F-15 or F-16 fighter] in there, they’re gonna die,” said Maj. Gen. Jeff Harrigian, who is finishing up a tour at the Pentagon where he has been building the plans for integrating the F-35 throughout the Air Force. He and Col. Max Marosko, the deputy director for air and cyberspace operations at Pacific Air Forces in Hawaii, detail how the F-35 would be unleashed in a new report published Thursday by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.

“In our minds, what this comes down to is the ability to kill and survive,” Harrigian said.

http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2016/06/air-force-officers-give-new-details-f-35-war-china/129562/

Lovely.

$100,000,000 per plane, 400 on order.

$1,500,000,000 total cost of development and production.

http://www.jsf.mil/news/docs/20160324_Fact-Sheet.pdf

[Javaman]

1. They'll probably sit on the tarmac because they are to expensive to fly. nt

[Thinkingabout]

2. So far the F35 has not become functional as a bomber and still manuever in dog fights at the

Same talking me. Over a trillion dollar investment and growing, the cost overruns should be investigated.

[HereSince1628]

3. Somehow, I don't think winning a conventional war with China is in the cards.

China is a nuclear nation with ballistic missile capacity. If a conflict with the US presented an existential threat to China, they'd likely resort to using that force.

[edhopper]

4. The next war

(some would say the current one) would be economic and cyber, not "conventional".

[Initech]

5. The MIC won't be satisfied until the whole world is in flames.

[hunter]

6. That would be a great marker in the geologic record.

Above the radioactive ash, after World War III.

Below it, before.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratigraphy