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RE: Also notice that the Viper beat the Jaguar and the F-111 in that competition...and scored a record...seven year after 1st flight...could the F-35 do this today vs the Eurofighter and the Strike Eagle
The F-16 was the first fighter-bomber the US had that was able to deliver iron bombs without a lot of restrictions on what it was doing at the time. The F-16 was the first one that could put the cross-hairs on the target and then be pulling away off the target and the computer could calculate when to release the bombs after the pickle. These days, GPS weapons make everybody a marksman, but the better nav solution you give the GPS munitions, the better the accuracy. I doubt if it makes much difference what drops it in competition anymore. I tested PGMs In the 80s and early 90s that were so accurate they were more accurate than our instrumentation used to measure the terminal accuracy -so accurate the atmospheric heat distortion between the cameras and the target could not see any variation off target, we had to look at what was left of the target and make an estimate. Now in a combat environment, the F-35 will do better and have a much better chance at getting to do it more than once. I'm looking forward to future Red Flags.
Feb 26, 2014, 10:48:32 PM