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Shomer escribió:Según datos de la Fuerza Aérea Saudí, sus Eagle están volando mas horas en el Yemen que los Tornado y Eurofighters sumados.
https://twitter.com/MbKS15/status/822473662917906433
Mencionan 25.000 horas de operaciones por parte de los F-15S frente a 12.000 horas de los Tornado y 8.000 de los EFAs.
Cuántas unidades tienen de cada modelo?. Los 72 EFA están en servicio?
¿Sabéis a qué problemas de desarrollo del F-15SA se refieren?
Why the U.S. Military Misses the F-14 Tomcat: It’s easy to forget how important dedicated air-to-air naval fighters are until they’re gone
The service [Us Navy] has not had a dedicated air-to-air combat aircraft since it retired the Grumman F-14 Tomcat in 2006... Now, as new threats to the carrier emerge and adversaries start to field new fighters that can challenge the F/A-18E/F and F-35C, attention is starting to shift back to this oft-neglected Navy mission?, ?especially in the Western Pacific...
The report notes that both the Super Hornet and the F-35C are severely challenged by new fifth-generation fighter aircraft such as the Russian-built T-50 and China’s J-20. Indeed, certain current adversary aircraft such as the Russian Su-30SM, Su-35S and the Chinese J-11D and J-15 pose a serious threat to the Super Hornet fleet. It’s a view that shared by many industry officials, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force and even U.S. Marine Corps aviators.
Both F/A-18E/Fs and F-35Cs will face significant deficiencies against supercruising, long-range, high-altitude, stealthy, large missile capacity adversary aircraft, such as the T-50, J-20, and follow-on aircraft...
Already, the F/A-18E/F faces a severe speed disadvantage against Chinese J-11 aircraft, which can fire longer range missiles at a higher kinematic advantage outside of the range of U.S. AIM-120 missiles.
Nor does the F-35C?, which suffers from severely reduced acceleration compared to even the less than stellar performance of other JSF variants, help matters.
Similarly, the F-35C is optimized as an attack fighter, resulting in a medium-altitude flight profile... The F-35C was never designed to be an air superiority fighter. Indeed, naval planners in the mid-1990s wanted the JSF to be a strike-oriented aircraft with only a 6.5G airframe load limit...
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-bu ... mcat-19347
https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.hudson.o ... nflict.pdf
India is forging ahead with its most challenging fighter programme, the development of its low-observable Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA).
... The biggest challenge involves the development of Radar Absorbent Material (RAM). He alluded to New Delhi’s challenges in the area of radar cross section (RCS) reduction in comments about the collapse of the 2012 deal to buy 126 Dassault Rafale fighters. There were several issues that caused the Rafale deal to collapse, he says, but he specifically pointed to France’s unwillingness to part with a proprietary RAM that is applied to the Rafale’s canopy. Had the deal moved forward, Rafales completed in India would have been sent to France to receive the coating.
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For what ADA calls “stealth mode,” AMCA will carry a mix of four munitions, either bombs or missiles, in an internal bay. For “non-stealth mode” the jet will have fuselage hard points, as well as three additional hardpoints on each wing. The two inboard hardpoints will be able to carry external fuel tanks.
The engine has not been determined, but is likely to be either the General Electric F414, which powers the Boeing F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet, or the Eurojet EJ200, which powers the Eurofighter Typhoon.
At the 2015 iteration of Aero India, an ADA official told FlightGlobal that an advanced version of a local engine, the Gas Turbine Research Establishment Kaveri, could eventually be used in AMCA.
AMCA, as planned, will be capable of super cruise (Mach 1+ speeds without afterburner) and have an active electronically scanned array radar.
Balaji says that once the engine is determined, it will take three or four more years to develop the aircraft.
Prior to the show, Balaji told FlightGlobal that a first flight for the AMCA is planned for 2025. This marks a notable retreat from the ADA’s position in 2013, when a first flight was expected by the end of the decade.
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