Awsome job as always!!

amazing f-35 airshow video🤩

What you've got to understand is that the F35 is just a small part of a complex integrated weapons system. That small part is the pointy tip, filled with nasty hurty things that will do harm to anything it needs to be pointed at.

Really an amazing jet

Beautiful quicky 👍👏But the price....

This performance features in a 90 minute Airshow Dispatches film, featuring all the displays at the Dubai Airshow 2023, available on our KZread channel here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aKuB28eCmNPPkqg.html

Keep in mind this F-35A is using the original Pratt & Whitney F-135 engine & not the F-135 ECU that's a 7-20% increase in thrust, up to 30% increase in range, up to 50% more electrical power & switches between flight modes automatically. The real reason behind the ECU is the electrical power upgrade, F-35 Block 4 is getting a new AESA radar / EW System that is considerably more powerful than the current AN/APG-81, but thats not all. It's being equipped with a directed energy weapon (laser) & Plasma decoy system that projects a radar & IR track away from the F-35 to fool incoming missiles.

Which fighter aircraft impressed you the most?

@ThisisFlight

6 ай бұрын

At this show, the F-15EX and Mirage 2000 were probably my favourite fast jet solo displays.

@brucemcglasson

6 ай бұрын

F15ex

@naturalmystics-kd9vt

5 ай бұрын

Russian

PUFFIN are u watching this ? 🦉

Имба..😂👍

S Korea must have it's own stealth fighters not from the US because F35 requires daily access code from the US which only UK doesn't need access code because they are part of 5 EYES.

@ThisisFlight

2 күн бұрын

This claim stems from a false article run on an Indian news site. It is not accurate. There are a few things that might have confused the author and led him to invent this fact. For example, all F-35 servicing information has to be logged on a US DOD system. And pilots do indeed have to log in with a passcode before starting the engine (but this is a personal passcode to tell the jet who is flying it, so the systems can be set up to match their 'profile'). Perhaps the author misunderstood one of these systems, or perhaps the story is a total fabrication. Both these restrictions apply to the United Kingdom. However the author came to invent this claim, the story is not correct - the US does not issue daily access codes to allow customers to use the F-35.

Perhaps it would be wise for the Pentagon to slow down the acquisition of this f35 design and transition to a super f35. Same way f18 transitions to f18 super hornet - larger wings, more fuel capacity, larger payload and a more powerful engine in order to meet the rising challenge of peer 5th gen aircraft.

@ThisisFlight

6 ай бұрын

The F-35 already has the highest-thrust engine ever fitted to a multirole fighter. It experiences friction-related problems when operating at its top speed for prolonged periods. More power is not required. Adding external payload will degrade stealth capabilities, while adding internal capacity is a major redesign that would be years in the making (probably pointless, when Lockheed Martin is working on NGAD). Slowing acquisition is not a good idea. F-35s are badly needed to replace F-15C/Ds and F-16s in the US and for its allies, and the waiting list is already a decade long. A "Super F-35" is far enough in the future that slowing conventional F-35 acquisition now would leave the US military desperately short of aircraft for 10-15 years until the "Super" was fully operational. A "Super F-35" will almost certainly be in the form of incremental upgrades to the engine, sensor and weapon systems, with no major changes to the aircraft's shape, size or structure. The F-35 was always designed to be an improvable platform in that way. Simply saying make it bigger/more powerful is not the answer.

@scupking

6 ай бұрын

The Navy version (F-35C) has larger wings and more fuel capacity. They should have used that version for airforce as well. Also they have an upgrade for the engine that will give it about 10% more thrust.

@sbg911

6 ай бұрын

If they ever fit the GE Adaptive Engine to a future Block, you will almost have a Super F35.

Say whatever you want, I'm always under-impressed by the F-35. It looks like an inflatable airplane, or a submarine with wings.

@thinhnguyenduy4099

6 ай бұрын

I think it looks cool, the f35 fuselage is almost as wide as the raptor’s. What do you expect, they want that thing to carry almost 4 times the F16 internal fuel capacity, large weapons bays, and a buttload of avionics, sensors. The fact that they could keep that thing look like that and still have space to spare for future upgrades is really impressive.

@dieselboy610

6 ай бұрын

Well you are in the minority

@mikeinsugarland

5 ай бұрын

Looks doesn't do you a damn good in combat. That F-35 is a killer !!

After watching the F-15QA, F-16E Rafale, Mirage and even the JF-17 Thunder demos from the same airshow, I'm not impressed with the F-35. Those other planes were faster in their transitions and turns, better roll and yaw and regained energy better, especially the Viper and F-15QA. And if you want to see the F-35-like demo done WAY BETTER, just watch any F-22 demo. Fat Amy is a befitting name for the F-35.

@JE-vy9lq

6 ай бұрын

You’ll never see the full performance envelope of US military aircraft unless you’re an adversary. The F15QA and UAE F16 demos were rare glimpses into what’s held back…

@thinhnguyenduy4099

6 ай бұрын

F15qa demo is the best f15 demo ever, but the f35 demo is still better imo, because the F15 can’t really do high AoA like the f35, higher AoA means less speed, the F35 is very impressive, especially the pedal turn, the initial yaw looks like a true flat spin, but the F35 is limited by software at 50 AoA, but it can do much higher than that, F35 has better instantaneous pitch rate. The F15 stabilators have to pitch at higher deflection angle to get similar pitch rate to the F35, but it can only do for a brief moment and the nose wont pitch up any more while the stabilators have to deflect almost at its maximum angle, while the F35 stabilators barely pitch and in turns on a dime and the stabilators still have many rooms left to pitch up when the planes bleeds its own momentum. The tail slide maneuver is impressive on the F15, but it looks very sketchy, seems like the F15 briefly departed controlled flight. The F16E demo, imo seems to better is because the wing tips smokes. About the Rafale and all of the delta wing canards fighters, their maneuverability looks similar to the F16, good sustained turn rate but poor AoA and slow speed, i dont really understand, those fighters have canards but they can’t really do high AoA. Take a look at the early version of the Su35 with canards and NO TVC, it can do J-turn, cobra, pedal turns and extreme AoA, they remake that thing looks like it has tvc but it didnt, and the Finnish managed to perform J-turn on a legacy hornet, F35 can do controlled flat spin at 75 AoA with external load. But dont talk about the raptor, that thing is in the class of its own.

@kinematics7092

6 ай бұрын

You all are missing the point. The USAF F-35 demo is done with a combat loadout (simulated where needed). These other planes are stripped of their avionics. Yea, a clean F-15QA, F-16E, insert whatever plane, will have impressive maneuverability, but start putting on a radar, IRST, missiles and that performance massively degrades while an F-35 will perform exactly as you see here (and then some). The F-35 and F-22 are the only planes to do their demos in combat loadout. If your plan to fight an F-35 is to remove your radar, IRST, IR and radar missiles so you can "outmaneuver" it, then the F-35 has already won--you'll be blind to where it's at while it knows exactly where you are.

@ThisisFlight

6 ай бұрын

To the best of my knowledge, avioncs and sensors were not removed from most of the other aircraft at the Dubai Airshow. The F-15QA was "cleaned up" externally, with pylons and CFTs removed; I'm not sure what state its interior was in as the aircraft may still have been undergoing test flying at the time. The L-15 was a stripped-down lightweight version because it was purpose-built for an aerobatic team. Some work was done to "clean up" the USAF F-16C, but I'm under the impression this was purely external/cosmetic. However, every other solo fast jet at the show was an operational front-line aircraft 'borrowed' from a regular squadron for the duration of the event and returned to it immediately afterwards. You say the F-35 and F-22 are "the only planes to do their demos in combat loadout". That is demonstrably not true. For example, see the current RAF Typhoon FGR.4 display jet, which recieved a special paint scheme but has an unsightly unpainted radome (see also: the USAF "Venom" F-16 display jet) because it's still used for operational missions on weekdays between shows. During the off-season, to keep fatigue constant across the fleet, he uses a variety of different Typhoons from across two different squadrons for display practices. I can say with some certainty that they're not letting him practice on an aircraft that handles differently to the one he uses for displays, and neither are they removing and replacing radar units several times per week. While there are plenty of formation teams flying 'stripped down' versions of fast jets, I can't think of *any* fast jet solo display team in Europe which removes avionics for an airshow and then puts them back in afterwards. Indeed, I can think of several that display with a far greater combat loadout than the F-22 or F-35 (for example, the BAE Systems Typhoon display in circa 2011-2016, which flew with dummy missiles, bombs and fuel tanks on the wings, China's J-20 displays, where the weapons bay doors pull back to reveal a row of air-to-air missiles, or the French Navy and Air Force's Rafale B/M tactical display teams, which often perform with buddy-buddy refuelling systems or underwing tanks).

@kinematics7092

6 ай бұрын

@@ThisisFlight To reiterate, by these planes are not performing with the full avionics and sensor suite they will go into combat with. Maybe I need to rewatch the F-15QA demo, but I specifically did not notice the IRST and other targeting pods associated with a combat deployment. I am sure these are combat aircraft, but my point is to highlight the airshow performance is not done at combat loads, whereas the F-35 and F-22 specifically do their shows at combat loadout (and before you go "well actually", yes the RAAF F-35A demo is at 33% fuel.) For example, Kristin Beo Wolfe (the pilot flying in this video) has noted in many interviews she takes off at about ~14,700 lbs (6667 kg) of internal fuel. 14,000 lbs of fuel EXCEEDS the MAXIMUM internal fuel capacity of all aircraft you've listed. They would need fuel tanks to match that. Why this fuel loadout? Adding missiles to an F-35 or F-22 is NOT a DRAG increase, it's a WEIGHT increase. Using dummy missiles is effectively the same as adding additional fuel, with the gain of less resources spent. So once again, if you can identify a configuration of any of these planes with a gross weight 14,700 lbs above their empty weight where they perform the exact same, I would be very impressed. To further emphasize this, such a configuration would be a F-15 with FULL internal fuel PLUS 1300 lbs of weight (or however you want to dice it up)

These will ultimately end up stripped for useful parts to be sold overseas, or vandalized and left to decay.

rafale > f35

@thinhnguyenduy4099

6 ай бұрын

Bro, say 4thgen > 5thgen

@4rct1c9Ic3m4n

6 ай бұрын

Ignoramus

@itellyouforfree7238

6 ай бұрын

paper plane > f35

@classicgalactica5879

6 ай бұрын

Uh, no.