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@fightforaglobalfirstamendm5617

9 ай бұрын

Sir at 5:45 the numbers given seem very disjointed they either exceed or do not total to full squadrons. 389 + 145 + 127 + 126 = 787 divided by 12 is 65.5 and divided by 18 (average Squadron sizes in NATO) it’s is 43.7. Why not order 780, 792 or 810 which he would give you full squadrons?

@zahnatom

9 ай бұрын

was the Eurofighter video series finished or will there be more videos

@ivanzlatar2445

9 ай бұрын

@Millennium7HistoryTech : A master pirce of a video ... Packed with valuable information ! I had to watch it twice to try to absorb everything !

@Ezekiel903

9 ай бұрын

but I understand Italy,UK, because they are already working on the 6gen. fighters, maybe that's why they don't want upgrade their F35

@Millennium7HistoryTech

9 ай бұрын

@zahnatom Not finished, but nobody was watching

16:32 Being able to stream Netflix during long-range missions is definitely a life-quality improvement! 😂

@nedelwre

9 ай бұрын

while on long range mission, the cpu can mine crypto during long trips 🎉

@garynew9637

8 ай бұрын

Wouldn't fly without it lol

@lordyoda607

7 ай бұрын

Can't fly without Subway Surfers and family guy playing on your screen.

@ArgelTal_

6 ай бұрын

@@nedelwre never thought that way ... on cars the dynamo recharges the battery while driving, on the F35 the computer pays for fuel and payload in advance while on cruise to the mission area and slowly devalues chinese black markets ... thats just impressive. :D (its a joke, i know this is not how it works)

@ferventheat

6 ай бұрын

Pilots will be anticipating the 'hey Siri' and chat gpt upgrade.

I have to agree with 100% of this video. Although it's not an entirely new problem. F-4's didn't hit their stride until the E model. Lawn-Darts weren't genuinely "desirable" until the C model around block 50/52. The F-14A was drastically underpowered. etc. PS: This video is a monumental piece of work. Superbly researched & edited!

@kathrynck

9 ай бұрын

Hope your back feels better. Back pain sucks.

@kathrynck

9 ай бұрын

@@JimCarner I tend to agree that Kadena should have B's instead of A's due to it's vulnerable position. Other than that, the rest is full of assumptions, and reads mostly like "no fight, just lay down your arms and surrender yankee capitalist".

@k9killer221

9 ай бұрын

I just call this a Lockeed-Martin constant revenue stream for the next 20 years. And this plane is seriously sub-par, as many independent reports testify.

@inoculateinoculate9486

9 ай бұрын

Which "independent sources" ?? The only groups with the money to afford to test f35 solo or against other fighter jets are world governments 😂 So far most of THOSE tests have led to purchase contracts. By "independent sources," you are really just referring to Russian and Chinese propaganda videos you watched before this one.

@inoculateinoculate9486

9 ай бұрын

Every fighter jet program is a constant revenue stream for 20 years. Gripen, Rafale, F16, etc. Which mainstream fighter program is designed to make a few planes and then disappear? Your arguments don't even make sense

I'll never be able to look at the F-35 without thinking of the stealth pee-tank now. Thanks

@colinjohnson5515

9 ай бұрын

I feel like it’s likely that the pee reservoir is filled with absorbent polymer like a baby diaper. Seems like a simple solution for a possibly catastrophic problem.

@bastadimasta

9 ай бұрын

It is not that important. Everyone has one stealth biological stealth pee tank that is invisible in most military radar bands called a bladder.

@russellk.bonney8534

9 ай бұрын

Robot pilots next. They don't pee.

@equalmc276

9 ай бұрын

The Shade in this video is next level lol. I am dying.

@win4jesse

4 ай бұрын

@@bastadimasta my bladder wasn't "stealth" to the hospital's ultrasound so I wouldn't count on that

Perhaps the F35 program was never poorly conceived from a quality pov, rather it was poorly conceived from a value POV. (Americans will move mountains to maintain air dominance becasue its been made clear that if we dont - they consequences are grave. Probably all of our necks)

@KkevrockK

9 ай бұрын

Why is that? Curious how Americans think they’re always at war and failure to do so means they die. You really gotta stop drinking that kool aid.

@brimfire

9 ай бұрын

Without air superiority, we can literally see what happens. It becomes WWI trench warfare, and massive death waves caused by artillery bombardment. (Some more accurate than others.)

@Kman31ca

9 ай бұрын

Lockheed Martin effed this up with their concurrency idea. In 2005 they sent in a new General to get the program back on track and he was kickin butts left and right. I also think they added too many gadgets. Auto landing? Auto Landing on an Aircraft Carrier??? But I also listened to a podcast with an F-14 test pilot and that plane took forever as well till it was up to snuff. They actually threw the F-111 engines in the Tomcat just to get it passed through congress, but they knew the problems with that engine, and it took way too long to get the F-15 engines in it.

@michalandrejmolnar3715

9 ай бұрын

The Ukraine war disproves that air superiority is possible in the face of thick SAM coverage.

@mach533x

9 ай бұрын

@@michalandrejmolnar3715 this

So basically the challenge of making the F35 was not the ace combat cool looking jet part, but the magic orb they managed to forge into it which lifts the fog of war and gives you the ability to peer unto the thoughts of your enemies as they are manifesting... PS... R2D2 stands for Regrettably Repeating Delivery Delays... we are currently still at C2D2 but don't worry, we will eventually get to R as well 😅 Jokes aside, thanks for the class sensei, it was a mind boggling amount of information to absorb, thank you for all the hard work.🙏

@Gunni1972

9 ай бұрын

C2D2? Can't Control Dissapointing Decisions?

@Idahoguy10157

9 ай бұрын

Fortunately the new aircraft programs by the AF and Navy are separate. A navy aircraft can be modified for air force use. The separate need of a STOVL was smashing a square peg into a round hole.

@thesupreme8062

6 ай бұрын

​@@Idahoguy10157 whilst youre not wrong, the f35 capability to stovl is valuable

@Idahoguy10157

6 ай бұрын

@@thesupreme8062 … IMHO had a STOVL version requirement not been in the joint strike fighter the Lightening II would have been in serial production ten years earlier. Of course STOVL is valuable. But at serious cost to development of the JSF program. Time delays & additional complexity and costs. To me the turd in the punchbowl is the USAF not buying any F-35B’s. Despite claiming to support the Army. On the positive side foreign navies are buying the B variant. So aircraft carriers are back! I’m curious to see if the French Navy will buy any C variants

@thesupreme8062

6 ай бұрын

@@Idahoguy10157 the f35 program was alwayd meant to be a joint program, the f35b were nevwr particularly valuable for the usa, but us plebs? We can put small carriers and helicoptee destroyers to work. The extra effort was worth it imo, realistcally the usa never needed them since they male ample use of catobar carriers.

When I hear DAS I always remember F1, when Mercedes made that mechanism where they pull the steering wheel to change front wheel alignment. Anyway, it's a great video, very informative, I have to watch it one more time!

@Kman31ca

9 ай бұрын

It reminds me of old computers lol. I remember 90's PC's had some DAS program or something. idk 😁

@peceed

9 ай бұрын

I loved titles like "Was is DAS?"!

@raidermaxx2324

9 ай бұрын

Do you remember about a month after Trump was elected president, he blurted out on twitter that he saw that our new stealth planes had the ability to turn invisible, and everybody thought he was just being stupid, and that he thought our stealth jets could larp like "Wonder Woman's" invisible jet? I'm pretty sure that happened..

Just amazing professionalism and dedication to put all this content together. I could easily spend another 50 min just watching your "documentary". Job well done - thank you!

This 88 year flew since he was 16 striving to become a commercial pilot but gave. Along the way I found often not everything worked. Those planes are like a cycle compare to 2023 planes. I bet it's a real challenge and expensive to keep everything working with today's aviation technology. Good luck to our pilots especially anyone crazy to become a Naval Aviator.

@honkhonk8009

6 ай бұрын

On the contrary, its stupid cheap. Software is alot easier/cheaper to fix compared to mechanical problems. Dad got a Tesla. All its recalls are handled over the air. Features you would wait a whole model year for, just gets downloaded the next day. The transmission never breaks down, since its handled electronically. (ESC's) Same story with the F35. One component that would normally be used for multiple things, can be shared to be used for different things aswell. The gpu handling the 360 VR FLIR headset on the F35, can also be used to run inference on some AI model. The radar can also be used as a camera to image stuff, like satellites do.

@bornonthebattlefront4883

6 ай бұрын

⁠@@honkhonk8009teslas 100% still have moving parts, and moving parts can still break down Its “transmission” although only 1 speed, can still have mechanical issues, and would still need to go to the shop to be fixed Tesla is the worst example, as they have the worst QC and the highest prices out of electric vehicles You can’t buy a 30k electric vehicle like Elon promised 15 years ago

@alexanderpierzchala1615

6 ай бұрын

God Bless you and thank you for your service!

Every time I watch or read about 5th or 6th gen aircraft, it’s so easy to see why delays and problems are endless. They’re maddeningly complex. Even a new jet engine design seems simple in comparison.

Your channel will be very popular in upcoming years. I have no doubts about it. Keep it up!

Thank you AGAIN for your excellent work. Lately each of these OPUS grade episodes are real eye openers. You help, like no one else, flesh out the nuances.🙏🙏💪💪💪👏👏👏👏

@Millennium7HistoryTech

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Ezekiel903

9 ай бұрын

really the best doku I have seen so far, absolute excellent work💯

Imagine spending year of your life to become a military aircraft mantainer only to become a f35 lav tank drainer

@Aaron-wq3jz

9 ай бұрын

AKA a crew chief

The F-35 was always mind-blowingly ambitious. People focus on the B and its impacts on the airframe, but that was never where the real challenge resided. The software/electronics goals are agressive even by current standards, and they were largely conceived and architected in the 1990s and 2000s. Honestly I'm surprised that it has turned out as well as it did. I'm not surprised that the pre-TR3 hardware turned out to be underpowered relative to the program goals. They were projecting 2 decades out when they created it, and we software people always tend to underestimate from that far out.

Canada's deal is for the Block 4's so seeing this level of detail is interesting for our RCAF's future.

@Gunni1972

9 ай бұрын

Yes, expect to train 72 Technicians for every single Airframe. That will reduce the budget for flying.

Thanks. Woow this was quite something!!! Still processing in most of it. Dang !!! Probably, i will need 2-3 runs to absorb most of it

@Millennium7HistoryTech

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@shounak2022

9 ай бұрын

@@Millennium7HistoryTech i should be thanking you for such good content

@kathrynck

9 ай бұрын

Agreed, this will take at least 3 full viewings to fully absorb :) just bookmarked it to remind myself to do that.

No one provides the level of technical detail on these topics like you do. Most sites are for complete light weights and newbies. Not you. Thank you so much for doing the heavy lifting for us needs out here.

What a wonderfully informative episode this has been. But you really need to get Otis under control. Bravo.

OMFG, when agile SW development was introduced in AUTOMOTIVE, I said that: "I hope Aerospace and military doesn't do that", now, it's clear that they use Agile methodology to develop SW for F-35 but they didn't go full agile but use a mixed development process with Waterfall processes and that, probably led to the mismanagement of the SW development... That's my take, based they planned the deployment packages...

@justacomment1657

9 ай бұрын

I remember that engine control software on a400 deciding mid air is the right place to shut down all four of those to prevent engine damage...

@rasmichael

9 ай бұрын

Agile, in any of its forms, is fantastic if you are a handful of girls/guys/whatever developing something of relatively low complexity. Every large scale attempt at this that I have seen has been a dumpster fire.

@Gunni1972

9 ай бұрын

@@rasmichael STAR CITIZEN, cough cough.

@rasmichael

9 ай бұрын

@@Gunni1972 A blooming video game is supposed to be a development project of great complexity? What is wrong with you people?

@williamchamberlain2263

9 ай бұрын

'Waterfall' was made up to explain the existing processes to management - there's never been a working process that _only_ flows stage to stage.

Science fiction to funny! I was a crew Chief on F4's, F16's. Got to work on many different aircraft at TA transit alert.

11:00 all those operations at the same time is crazy, sensors fusion must be incredible

This DAS thingy, I was sceptical of how effective it could be and thinking that "a better pilot can definitelly do the same with 4th gen instruments" until I had a amateurish example experience of something like that in game called VTOL VR where a fictional F-35 like plane and fictional 4th gen plane (with HMD) are available to fly... honestly having the transparent cockpit and sensor fusion is like a cheat code. You have arcade-game-like of situational awarenes in a furball just by looking somewhere.

The Aircraft seems to be very much on track when it comes to continuously making Lockheed Martin lots of money ...

@wolfgangjr74

9 ай бұрын

Lol. And yet certain countries steal the tech since it truly is so awesome. The F35 is truly the masterclass of AA and AG dominance. A bit expensive and initially mismanaged but the right tool for the job and then some.

@billpugh58

9 ай бұрын

But a cheap Chinese one then. But We want the world beating F35 thanks! Over one thousand airframes on the way.,

@garynew9637

9 ай бұрын

​@@billpugh58usa bankrupt.

@user-rg9xd9mu5r

9 ай бұрын

Lockheed Fartin stays winning.

@eleventy-seven

9 ай бұрын

@@billpugh58 Remember, forcing technological breakthroughs on the USSR like Buran and Star helped break their going backs.

I used to work at Lockheed Skunk Works at Palmdale, and I would give LM engineering a C grade. On my first day at F35 CDA compartment. I made them move the MLGs away from the roll jets.

@Millennium7HistoryTech

6 ай бұрын

Sorry, just for clarity, what is CDA and MLG?

Re the scenario you explore at 41.35, I presume the networked nature of the F-35s might also cause the sensors from other platforms - other F-35s, SAMs, ships, AWACs, etc, - to point THEIR sensors at that patch of sky, too. The contact could be identified much sooner. [EDIT] Sorry, I see you made this point at 45.54. [END EDIT]

¡Fantástico! Muy buena compilación del espacio OSINT y las bien recibidas y moderadas "educated guest"

@LuciusSullaCornelius

9 ай бұрын

¿Qué?

No body can Match his detailed work in all his videos !!

Woah now I have to listen 3 times to absorbed all... Thank you... You know your stuff 4 certain and not a waste of time in any way, I appreciate all ❤

Cheers! almost 100k, great job!! This is as always good stuff. I still remember when this channel was a little baby with less of 10k. 😀

This video was interesting, and I am interested in more! You edited in a robot just to be annoyed by it and that's why I love you. 🤣 F-35 upgrades were expected but I'm constantly amazed at not only the number of changes but by how much better some have gotten.

Fat Amy is everyone’s favorite punching bag until she shows up at your front door and you didn’t invite her and you didn’t know until she has departed your home.

@Gunni1972

9 ай бұрын

How could you not know? You can hear her coming from miles away.

Super awesome Guss. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and substantiated opinion.

Another banger!! Been wondering where you've been but totally worth the wait!

With such a highly computerized and networked fighter jet, I hope they never have to fight a squadron of Cylons...

@Gunni1972

9 ай бұрын

Or a bloody thunderstorm, where every Lightning is just "Too much info to handle"

Brilliant. Well-researched video with appropriate bits of humor to ease the delivery of inherently dry material.

Thank you for this expert analysis! I loved the thoughfulness.

Outstanding video. Thank you Sir.

I don't think it was necessarily too early, I think it's more about the fact that the f35 is a large paradigm shift in modern warfare. So they are basically treading new ground that hasn't been tread before which makes it harder than just the normal improvement in hardware we've seen in the past. I also think that the f35 is being used as testing ground for technologies that will become part of the f22 replacement.

8 ай бұрын

and the tech is then actually put into F22 and would be until the F/A-XX arrives

This is a fantastic channel

Always informative. Thank you.

I was curious gave you the benefit of the doubt and was genuinely impressed with your indepth research.

*I heard rumors* about U.S conducting F 35 testing inside Ukraine, now realize wow this is true!!! Amazing

@Millennium7HistoryTech

9 ай бұрын

It is still rumours for inside, outside is official though

@shivanshna7618

9 ай бұрын

Maybe USA just wanna Russians to think that . To keep up tension we will know only year's later if it was true or not

@hotcoals2291

9 ай бұрын

Where are you getting that info?

@Gunni1972

9 ай бұрын

@@Millennium7HistoryTech Outside of Ukraine could be IOWA, nothing to worry about , INSIDE Ukraine would be something to think about. And i don't think, that happened.

@Millennium7HistoryTech

9 ай бұрын

@@hotcoals2291 it is all public domain

This video has aged like wine and it hasn't even been a week yet.

Very interesting, thank you! Excellent information and outstanding presentation.

This is one of your greatest videos Sir! You are the greatest aviation technology KZreadr ever! ❤❤❤❤

Excellent, as always!

@kathrynck

9 ай бұрын

Over & above this time I think.

An engine with a slightly improved engine core and new cooling systems are expected to be available at about the same time as block 4 although they are not part of it.

@chrissmith7669

6 ай бұрын

Much better core. Better performance, lower fuel burn, longer life, and the cooling improvements to support the much improved block IV package.

Well done. I’ve viewed several of your videos. With this one, you won another subscriber. Hope your back feels better soon.

Incredible information thank you!

I've asked so many times without a clear answer. You've answered it this time! The block4 is an update that's retrofit-able to existing aircraft (minius the 150 earliest). Fantastic! I didn't understand this correctly until now. So the engine updates also intended to be a retro-fit?

@joshuasenior4370

9 ай бұрын

The engine upgrades will be a upgrade by Pratt & Whitney (the current engine manufacturer) to the core of the engine, as I understand it, it will be retrofitable as well

@douginorlando6260

8 ай бұрын

I seriously doubt Hundreds of early LRIP models will ever get this upgrade due to several issues.

@RAF71chingachgook

8 ай бұрын

@@douginorlando6260 Please expound.

@chrissmith7669

6 ай бұрын

@@douginorlando6260they’ve already earmarked those non-upgrade capable engines & airframes for use as OpFor aircraft being modified to appear as close as possible on radar and EME to planes we can expect to face. It’s a good use for nondeployable airframes

@douginorlando6260

6 ай бұрын

@@chrissmith7669they are very expensive to operate per flight hour. Repurposing the hundreds of earlier LRIP f35 as opfor would be a face saving proposal for JPO and LM, plus a huge money maker for LM. F35 is incapable of matching the flight envelope of 4th gen fighters, so it can not replicate op for aircraft performance.

It's insane how much info and insight you push in these videos! Can't wait for more stuff on new military stuff coming out!

Great video, thanks a lot!

Great watch! Fascinating technology!

Software updates bring this to mind: "Just enter your updated Lockheed Martin license code to get rid of that annoying DARPA watermark" :p

@kathrynck

9 ай бұрын

hahaha i looked at that watermark for 2 months before I got around to going out to get a serial.

Was the f-35B that got lost last week in South Carolina a testimony to its stealthiness?

@Millennium7HistoryTech

9 ай бұрын

Probably 😉

@Gunni1972

9 ай бұрын

Probably wrong map upload. And because that took 8 hours, the Pilot went with the "I'll fly anyway"-solution.

@Srulio

9 ай бұрын

@@Gunni1972 Pilot tjhinks, "I'll just wing it"...

Really nice and informative video. Thank you

thank you for making it!

I wonder if all those features are usable or manageable in a tactical environment, even with the support of the advanced automation (a k. a AI). Also, it seems that the operation of this weapons system will be eye watering, while the training needs for the air and ground crews will bw well beyond the current standards.

@showdown66

9 ай бұрын

F35 computers are going to be frustrated with the human pilot getting in the way of things/bottlenecking decisions. AI drumming fingers at 3GHz…

@alex3261

9 ай бұрын

@@showdown66 😀👍

@wouter2250

6 ай бұрын

The future of war is sitting in an underground bunker while robots duke it out on the surface.

In this respect I remembered the T-10 (original Su-27), the chief designer went against building it when the country was about to order the factories to put it on printer as all the documents, graphs & drawings were passed to them. He convinced most of the team while some military heads replied threateningly, the mister of aviation said to the chief designer "you are lucky this is not 1937 now". Just thought of mentioning the parallel of receiving something earlier than completed or hitting all the goal posts of the project.

@piotrd.4850

8 ай бұрын

Ah, famous story. However, result of fixes was most impressive (and largely, wasted).

Very good episode, thanks for posting!

Almost to 100k subs. Happy for you! great content.

F35 is too big to fail, but I do think that the aircraft produced is amazing. Two things can be true at once: 1) F35 program was too bloated and mismanaged. 2) The aircraft itself is a technological marvel that doesn't have many competitors. From what I've seen, NGAD (both versions) looks to be much better run (especially since the USAF and USN programs are separate) and hopefully leverage the management lessons learned (i.e. no more concurrency). To me, the F35 is like the Zumwalt and LCS., something experimental doing too many things at once. The difference is that international partners made F35 impossible to cancel.

@inoculateinoculate9486

9 ай бұрын

You keep throwing Kadena around like you've figured out some big secret 😂 F35 can launch from carriers, carriers can move anywhere at a speed that is difficult to constantly track. China has recently proven they can hit a moving target on sea with land based cruise missiles, but only with: A) Real time targeting data, and B) A target which isn't blasting the missile with jamming signals, firing defensive missiles in response, and surrounded by an entire battle group doing the same thing. China could conceivably saturate the defenses of a single carrier group with an all-out effort of drones and missiles, but not 6 or 8 carrier groups at once. Even before these carriers arrived, b2 and b21 stealth bombers would be wreaking havoc on enemy SAM sites and anti-ship missile batteries, along with command and control and literally anything else the pentagon marked on a map. F35 as a system is a minimally relevant part of this war game, and Kadena airbase is even less relevant than that. Cope in a better way

@inoculateinoculate9486

9 ай бұрын

On top of this, your attitude is such blatant propaganda: "Don't even bother building a new 5th generation fighter jet, it's just going to be shot down. China will win no matter what, just ignore the pacific ocean and surrender immediately." Based on this type of repeated propaganda, it seems the intelligent choice is for the US military to CONTINUE developing 5th and 6th gen fighters, and continue to mass produce them, along with more supercarriers and air bases in the Philippines, Japan, and elsewhere.

@navyseal1689

9 ай бұрын

​@@JimCarnerkeyboard warrior 🤡🤓

@sigma_six

9 ай бұрын

@@inoculateinoculate9486 Carriers move at a speed that is difficult to track? in today's world of global satellites how can you not spot a chunk of metal the size of 3 football fields, giving off tons of heat and electromagnetic signals, traveling at 40mph? wtf? stealth doesn't apply to aircraft carriers '; D

@sirkl4272

9 ай бұрын

​​@@JimCarnerdid you just say that if a weapon system gets blown up, then it cannot be combat effective, and that because the F-35 is vulnerable to being blown up, it's a junk platform? Stunning. Just absolutely flawless logic. 👌

This is great if they do live F35 near frontlines testing inside ukriane airspace beauty

@damianketcham

9 ай бұрын

Think they might?? Seems risky.

@Gunni1972

9 ай бұрын

"Near Frontline"? Have you seen, how far away "they were"? They wouldn't even carry a weapon, that goes that far.

Making a broad topic clear. Great vid

Great video! Well done 👏🏼

.....and it's gone.

These upgrades will make this aircraft an even more phenomenally capable military asset, they might be very expensive but they'll bring a lot of new technologies and lots of new toys to the party. Even though the Raptor and Typhoon are the sexy hot rods of the skies, the F-35 is more like the geeky nerd of the skies which is more a whole lot more deadly than people think.

Very interesting and definitely worth a subscribe (done) and constant thumbs up from now on. Thank you for your hard work. It is appreciated. Greetings from Canada

Another great video. Thank you.

Great video, as always

Finland plans to use the F35 block 4s until 2060s (maybe they will be updated too eventually). Therefore it likely does not really matter if we only get them by 2030. The F18 that Finland currently has will likely last until then. That still leaves 30 + years of useful lifetime.

@rogerbiggerstaff3293

7 ай бұрын

They plan to use F-35s till past 2060, but they won't be Block 4 at that point. They'll be Block 7/8/9/etc .... by that time.

@honkhonk8009

6 ай бұрын

One thing about modern warfare, is that its all about the electronics. Aerodynamics is a mostly "solved" field. Only practical future modifications that could be done on the F35, would be the powerplant and the avionics. F35's are probably gonna be the modern day equivalent to DC-3's.

Great work. Great things never come easy.✌

This is a ver y very informative video. Thanks. I learned so much I watched it twice.

Yes, it's so scientific, it disappears after it crashes so no foreign power can replicate it. Well, maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but interesting.

Changing the CPU might not be that big of a problem. If there is a virtualization layer in between. Unless you go to a completely new underlying architecture. Like from intel to arm.

@honkhonk8009

6 ай бұрын

Its unlikely they use any sort of virtualization on the F35. They use RTOS's for a reason. No chance their gonna virtualize stuff. F35's are like cars, and have alot of independent computers that work together. One going down shouldnt result in the whole thing going down. Each avionic system prolly communicates with eachother through some bus system. One single computer doesnt handle everything. While its prolly hallucinating, ChatGPT says some of the computers use PowerPC RISC. Assuming its true, if the electronics were more monolothic, it would prolly be using x86 or arm, which it aint.

Thanks, great content. As always.

@Millennium7HistoryTech

9 ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

Another great vid , thanks 🙏

I wish video like this about Rafale F4, Eurofigher Typhoon Tranche 4, Gripen E.

@dc-fc7tp

9 ай бұрын

not really. watch his videos about the rafale@@RogerPierre57

This is for OTIS…. thank him for all of his hard work and efforts. No way this channel could get by without him. No way in hell.

@Millennium7HistoryTech

9 ай бұрын

Thanks! This will go toward Otis energy bills!

Getting to watch this a week late, but thanks for this. It was very well done

I wonder how fast the F-35 can go with that body shape even after upgrading the engines. I don't think this shape is well suited for the fluid dynamic properties of air at anything near hypersonic speeds, but that doesn't mean it can't push M2.5 with this shape.

@antoniohagopian213

9 ай бұрын

It can't even get to mach 1.6 It has horrendous aerodynamics. The intakes shoke the engine, it is draggy af and it can't even supercruise. If you see the requirements (of the usaf) for a plane to be considered 5th gen, you'll notice the fail35 isn't one at all.

@reformed1trick739

9 ай бұрын

@antoniohagopian213 I think it's silly to say an aircraft isn't 5th gen because of it's speed. The reality is that speed isn't quite as important when you can target someone over the horizon and operate with stealth near hostile territory.

@wolfgangjr74

9 ай бұрын

@@antoniohagopian213 Shes not a pure interceptor so absolute speed is not a thing for her. Not to mention shw would have to be far larger to house the fuel necessary to maintain such speeds even at super cruise. Note the russian interceptors in their large size. Everything has trade offs and it was to be stealthy and information focused to share the load whenever possible. She also not too shabby as a dog fighter if she screws up. The F35 will serve with distinction in its service life.

@paradiddlesixix7530

9 ай бұрын

@@antoniohagopian213 in the history of american air to air conflict there has never been a missile launch at a speed greater than mach 1.3. your comment, and the OP's post suggesting that the f35 was ever supposed to be anything close to a hypersonic aircraft are pretty laughable. especially the OP's haha

@artiefakt4402

9 ай бұрын

@@antoniohagopian213 Speed is bad for stealth or fuel consumption... it's irrelevant since pilots rarely go over Mach 1.6... and fight most of the time at subsonic speeds. Moreover, since it carries everything inside (lots of fuel, weapons, pods...) an F-35 will be more manoeuvrable and fast than any other Gen 4+ aircraft loaded for combat. People like you just seem to believe pilots actually fight as if they were performing some airshow... which means you don't understand a damn thing about aviation.

The F-35 is still in the trial stages. The program is incredibly new and may take a decade to solve, which is not unlike several programs of the not-too-distant past.

@honkhonk8009

6 ай бұрын

Definitely gonna be the longest lasting airframe in service. Its gonna be the Toyota of fighters, which is hilarious considering its American lol

Great work! thanks

Outstanding analysis! Subscribed.

Meanwhile, a 1st world country is missing it's F-35 after the pilot ejected and the jet went missing somewhere in SC. 😂

@patriotdiva3118

9 ай бұрын

Hopefully it didn’t have to do with the pee tank!

@srinitaaigaura

9 ай бұрын

Well they found it. The jet being stealthy worked rather too well when it got lost.

Another issue with IFF is the possibility of spoofing an enemy IFF response. Presumably this would require capture of the day's codes or something like that, but certainly a possibility. At least for a software-defined radio?

@raywhitehead730

5 ай бұрын

This Was done during WW2 between the British and the Germans. Yep. Several books discussed this. Mostly associated with night fighters.

Whoa! This is one of the most informational videos I have ever seen. I'm sure not every system of systems was provided, but boy there was a lot to get your mind around. Bravo on a well done job. I couldn't imagine the research it took to piece this together. Worse even would have to be a project or program manager working on the F-35. I'm curious if all systems on this supercomputer aircaft work in an agile development or only some. Every 6 months for software updates seems like a long time, but software that breaks is one thing, software that breaks and causes life, crucial weapon and sensor failures is a whole other deal. I can't imagine the brain power and mental fortitude to power through to get things right and solve the issues for a multi-billion platform. Makes my head hurt just thinking about it. My gosh we've got to have quantum computing working by now and if not on the F-35, definitely on NGAD. Sheesh!

Good Stuff Gus, keep it up.

My god, it must be great to be in the American defence industry. They seem to be able to have money literally thrown at them all the time. The pentagon asks for an 'affordable' strike aircraft, it ends up being one of (if not the!) most expensive defence programmes in history and then, almost before the paint dries on the new jets, the manufacturer 'suggests' updates which (surprise, surprise!!) Will cost billions more, and everyone just accepts it! It's crazy!😮

Launching any missile from the ground in the FOV of IRST system is suicidal with the level of automation of detection and tracking F-35 will have or possibly already has. Everybody will know where the missile was launched from.

@Gunni1972

9 ай бұрын

Yeah but You still need to get close to destroy it. And if that missile is coming your way, why wouldn't a second one from the same, or a different launcher? As even the first missile should tell you: YOU HAVE BEEN DETECTED. PLEASE LEAVE, or Aerial Patrols will take care of you.

The last time the US government allowed such an advanced fighter to have these cost overruns was the F-15. The sheer scale of the technological headstart that this granted the US can still be felt today. It was arguably a waste of money, given the MiG-25 was not nearly as good as it was hyped up to be, but it laid the foundation for decades of American air superiority. As more nations enter the sixth generation aerial arms race, the sheer volume of research and development funding given to the F-35 Block 4 can almost guarantee a qualitative advantage for the NGAD program's PCA aspect. The networking technology and distributed sensor technologies will also have huge returns in the CCA platforms. In many ways, the F-35 will likely be seen by future generations as the crowdfunded prototype of whatever they end up calling the NGAD system.

This is how we build software, we start with a minimum viable product and then continously improve. It is far superior than trying to do everything all at once

Apparently Ukraine hit an S400 system with Neptune missiles modified for ground attack, and destroyed at least one launcher. Seem's the capabilities of the Ukrainian side are only growing...

@Gunni1972

9 ай бұрын

Capabilities is one thing. If you run out of people who can use them, they are kinda not THAT effective???

The infrared sensors are absolutely incredible I couldn't believe it, and I said these guys are selling us a dream they're not going to really make this but they really did it it's fascinating me the situation awareness that the pilot has a new ability to attack and the new am-9 Sidewinders they turn around these ones these missiles are there are ones you don't have to turn around and shoot the enemy down you don't have to have on boresight, the missiles like in the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice, when he was flying that little helicopter and he pushed the button that said AA missiles and the missiles went around and shot the helicopter oh, well that fantasy is now a reality the F-18 was a remarkable program, got a lot of ridicule from the Press, like the engines were too heavy stupid things that should give us an indication of how some politicians are nowadays, what made the F18 magnificent was its ability to fight its way into anime conflict with a deliver missiles and defeat any are combatants on the way to completing their mission and they performed remarkably

@honkhonk8009

6 ай бұрын

Reminds me alot of Teslas. Lockheed also runs AI models on missiles, that use alot of the same tech Tesla uses. Trained on inferencing ground data with its own internal maps, incase GPS is unavailable. 90s Tomahawks also did the same, but I imagine are much less reliable.

thank you very much for this presentation...you're the best...

Exceptional presentation.

Haters are gonna be haters, but the fact is that the F-35 is a marvel of technology. And for all the reasons you explained (superbly, BTW), its going to get even better.

@alexnderrrthewoke4479

9 ай бұрын

Marvel of tech? A poor German radar was able to find out that crap plane. Failed and got accidents more then 6 times. Can't do dodge fights. Su-57 can destroy it easily. Explain to me how marvelous it is?

@BrunoViniciusCampestrini

9 ай бұрын

@@alexnderrrthewoke4479 the Su-57 has a 14% accident rate and you want to talk about the accidents of the F-35, who had 6 accidents out of a fleet of 1000? Also, how exactly will the Su-57 destroy the F-35 when it doesn't exist in enough quantity to even form a squadron? (and I won't go on the technical inferiority of the plane here). About the German radar: VLO is NOT invisibility. Any aircraft can be detected by a radar close enough. The thing with the F-35 is that by the time you get a weapons grade track on it, the plane is already getting away after firing its weapons.

@92HazelMocha

9 ай бұрын

​@@BrunoViniciusCampestriniWell for one the Su57 can fire air to air missiles whereas the F35 apparently cannot lol

@alexnderrrthewoke4479

9 ай бұрын

@@BrunoViniciusCampestrini oh please dude. Su-57 has the least accidents compared to f-35 who has accident rate of 40%. That's high. I am mentioning 6 that fell and got destroyed. Not to mention all the other problems it presents. So try better. Russia is producing su-57s at faster rate. So cope. Try use f-35 to Russian anti air and radar. This is not Iraq bud. This is real enemy. Ukraine has proven who you foreigners all tuck tail and run

@alexnderrrthewoke4479

9 ай бұрын

@@BrunoViniciusCampestrini oh now it's about being invisible. You NAfo bots all use that same stupid argument. An old German radar found it very easy. I mean easy and time to destroy

After watching this video, and seeing the performances of Russian Armed forces including Russian Air Force.. there is no way Russia could hold its own against NATO in a conventional warfare for a month. Russia would def. use their tactical nuclear when they finally meet NATO in a direct confrontation.

@wolfgangjr74

9 ай бұрын

Just comes to prove how much of a p****y they are as a military. They can't win via conventional means that they would be willing to fight via nuclear escalation as if they think they could win. Masters of a dying world. China is also on that plate with their mostly fake Navy. Their medium range missiles are a problem though and only because we were in a treaty bound not to make similar weapons. But we are free of that now and actively working on them as well. Soon China won't even have that as a threat.

@maeton-gaming

9 ай бұрын

oh the naivety xD how familiar are you with S--500? S-500 was custom designed to eat F-35 for lunch :) In fact, the reason we're so happy ukraine is doing our dirty work now is precisely because we can wage war on an ancient enemy without worrying about neutralization assets the enemy has prepared specifically for defeating us, things like S-500 and wake acoustic homing torpedo heads ;))

@calvinblue894

9 ай бұрын

But Russia is getting more and more battle tested..including their air force

@BennyCFD

9 ай бұрын

Ah Ha

@StandingHereI

9 ай бұрын

I have no choice but to question your ability to draw conclusions

Fantastic as allways👍

thanks a lot for this clip. I don't follow aerospace as much as I used to, so this was news to me.