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Posted 7/5/2012 Updated 7/5/2012
7/5/2012 - EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- F-35 tail number AF-1 underwent stores static ejection testing at the F-22 Combined Test Force for the past three weeks. The aircraft is carefully positioned over a pit filled with foam, and instrumented inert weapons are released from the aircraft. This type of testing, also known as pit testing, allows the engineers to evaluate how the aircraft is physically affected by the release of the weapon, as well as the how the onboard stores management computers work. Pit testing is a pre-requisite to in-flight weapons release testing. The F-35 CTF tested both a Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) and an Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM).
Posted: Jul 05, 2012 4:49 PM CEST
Updated: Jul 05, 2012 8:27 PM CEST
By FOX 10 News - Staff Report
PHOENIX (AP) -
Noise from the F-35s jets proposed to come to Luke Air Force Base in Glendale would impact fewer residents than current F-16 operations.
That's under the recommended scenario which would bring 72 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to the base.
Luke officials say that mitigation efforts from the base beyond what's already in place are not feasible, although the U.S. Air Force indicates some steps could be considered once a decision on location is made.
The conclusions were part of a final environmental-impact report released last month by the Air Force, which also included the agency's responses to comments submitted by the public this spring.
Luke is in contention with three other bases to be a pilot training base for F-35s. A decision is expected mid-July.
By Dave Majumdar on July 5, 2012 11:46 PM
The British will be accepting their first Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II, aka the Joint Strike Fighter, at the company's Fort Worth plant on July 19. That will mark the first international delivery of an F-35, Lockheed says.
This is an F-35A test aircraft--AF-6--flying out of Edwards AFB, California, over Owens Lakebed. As mentioned before, the Brits are buying the short take-off vertical landing B-model. That's after they flip-flopped from the B-variant to the carrier-based C-model and back again. So the photo isn't particularly relevant to what the RAF and RN are buying, but it's a nice shot...
This is a Lockheed Martin photo...
(Source: Dutch News; published July 6, 2012)
As expected, a majority of MPs have backed calls for the Netherlands to pull out of the Joint Strike Fighter jet project, 10 years after the order was originally placed.
Left wing parties, the anti-Islam PVV and animal rights party PvdD backed a joint Labour and Socialist motion calling for Dutch investment in the JSF to be halted.
Defence minister Hans Hillen said after the vote he was not in a position to stop Dutch investment in the JSF because of the pending election. Instead, it will be up to the next government to decide whether or not to proceed, he said.
When the project was first put forward in 2002, the cost was put at €4.5bn and the first plane was due to be operational in 2014. The price of the 85 aircraft has now risen to over €64m each, with an initial delivery date of 2019.
Industrial giant Stork and other Dutch firms have warned of the knock-on effect of pulling out of the project, which is expected to generate billions of euros in orders for Dutch firms. The contracts are conditional on the Netherlands buying the finished planes. (ends)
Posted by Graham Warwick 9:59 AM on Jul 06, 2012
The US Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded two more contracts under the High Velocity Penetrating Weapon (HVPW) program to develop technology for a rocket-boosted bunker-buster that can fit inside an F-35.
Lockheed Martin has been awarded $1.7 million and MBDA $1.3 million, but what they will do for the money has not been revealed. In January, Raytheon received an $11 million contract to develop GPS-degraded guidance technology for the HVPW, including anti-jam GPS, angle-of-attack sensing and RF seeker.
Graphics: US Air Force
AFRL's High Velocity Penetrating Weapon Flagship Capability Concept (FCC) is intended to reduce the risk in several key areas for a future hard-target munitions acquisition. The FCC will not integrate all the sub-components developed into a full-up round, but is expected to pave the way for a demonstrator program beginning in FY2014. The FCC is planned to culminate in a sled-track demonstration of the ordnance package in FY13.
As conceived, the HVPW is a solid-rocket-boosted 2,000lb-class weapon with the penetration of a 5,000lb gravity bomb, design for internal carriage in an F-35 and also able to increase the load-out on other bombers and fighters.
The US Air Force clearly sees the need for a new bunker-buster and tunnel-trasher, as AFRL's budget for HVPW was "plused up" to $35 million in FY12 and 13 to get technologies ready in key areas such as fuze and warhead survivability, anti-jam GPS, terminal seeker, angle-of-attack sensing and propulsion.
Contracts are being awarded in four research areas: ordnance technologies able to survive and function after a high-speed boosted impact into a hard target; guidance methodologies that provide maximum penetration and minimum miss distance; propulsion technologies that increase the terminal speed of the penetrator; and conceptual design of a next-generation air-launched weapon to attack hardened targets.
It's not an easy task, AFRL says. The angle of obliquity to the target and angle of attack of the weapon at impact are both critical and must be controlled closely to ensure maximum penetration and fuze survival. But boosting the weapon with a rocket can introduce issues with thrust misalignment, control authority, acceleration and vibration that must be overcome.
As to why this is all being done, the chart below from a recent Air Force presentation shows the trend towards high-value, hard-to-penetrate bunkers and tunnel complexes that future hard-and-buried-target munitions must be able to defeat.
to develop GPS-degraded guidance technology for the HVPW, including anti-jam GPS, angle-of-attack sensing and RF seeker.
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