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The four internal hardpoints is the SDD F-35 but there is obviously a lot more volume in there for more. AFRL have designed concepts for four AMRAAM sized missile hardpoints per bay (total eight). But because SDD is constrained to the original spec it won’t be developed until after SDD ends (2012) and follow on development begins. You will see eight missile F-35s in service pretty quickly from this date.Since we are talking about something as hypothetical as the F-35 flying against very large numbers of FLANKER/T-50s that haven’t even been built, ordered or imagined by regimes with such spare funds one is safe to assume a certain leeway in the date of this imaginary furball. But of course this may be counter to the dominant lee giving ideology of the anti-F-35 crusade which is all about minimising and ignoring the capability of the F-35 while exaggerating those of its rivals.Well considering that LOAL HOBS missiles are already in service and EODAS is not blocked by any airframe it’s a pretty good fact to depend an argument on. Used to be a time when people were screaming you could never fire a machinegun straight forward from a tractor aircraft because it would cut the prop off… I would imagine some of those luddites were still screaming long after the interrupter was in service that what the Red Baron and co. were doing was impossible.As to airframe blocking the seeker head for LOAL that kind of doesn’t apply to Lock On After Launch (LOAL)… Even in the tightest turn after launch profile the missile achieves enough separation from the launching aircraft to unmask its seeker head towards any blindspot behind the aircraft. Maybe you were thinking of Laugh Out Loud? What I do whenever this recycled Air Power Australia (APA) nonsense is trotted out…LOL the FLANKER kills all. In the words of Jerry Seinfeld: “That is one magic loogie…”
The four internal hardpoints is the SDD F-35 but there is obviously a lot more volume in there for more. AFRL have designed concepts for four AMRAAM sized missile hardpoints per bay (total eight). But because SDD is constrained to the original spec it won’t be developed until after SDD ends (2012) and follow on development begins. You will see eight missile F-35s in service pretty quickly from this date.
Since we are talking about something as hypothetical as the F-35 flying against very large numbers of FLANKER/T-50s that haven’t even been built, ordered or imagined by regimes with such spare funds one is safe to assume a certain leeway in the date of this imaginary furball. But of course this may be counter to the dominant lee giving ideology of the anti-F-35 crusade which is all about minimising and ignoring the capability of the F-35 while exaggerating those of its rivals.
Well considering that LOAL HOBS missiles are already in service and EODAS is not blocked by any airframe it’s a pretty good fact to depend an argument on. Used to be a time when people were screaming you could never fire a machinegun straight forward from a tractor aircraft because it would cut the prop off… I would imagine some of those luddites were still screaming long after the interrupter was in service that what the Red Baron and co. were doing was impossible.
As to airframe blocking the seeker head for LOAL that kind of doesn’t apply to Lock On After Launch (LOAL)… Even in the tightest turn after launch profile the missile achieves enough separation from the launching aircraft to unmask its seeker head towards any blindspot behind the aircraft. Maybe you were thinking of Laugh Out Loud? What I do whenever this recycled Air Power Australia (APA) nonsense is trotted out…
LOL the FLANKER kills all. In the words of Jerry Seinfeld: “That is one magic loogie…”
