Note: I've been yelling for Lockheed Martin to separate their MFC from the F-35 program. They need to establish a ground division for their MPC, SMSS and JLTV projects with a quickness. The fact that they've failed to do so indicates that internally they don't realize how controversial the F-35 program has become. The longer that airplane is tied to the rest of the company the greater the chance that govts will begin to question their entire enterprise..
I think Lockheed tying everything to the F-35 program has more to do with insurance. When the F-35 program is placed in greater risk of getting canceled they will add more to it. They want it to be too big to kill. If that changes, then they respond by making it bigger so as to make it harder to kill. If the plane has every weapons system tied to it, then cancelling it makes all of those weapons systems useless as well. They can argue that more funding will have been wasted and so on.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite LOL moment, Apaches taking out Nanuchka (Proj 1234) Corvettes with a Hellfire but the Corevetts don't bother defending themselves with their own Osa-M SAMs.
ReplyDeleteso those are actual warships? i thought the artist just pulled them out of his ass.
DeleteReal.. and apparently real blind ;)
Deletelol a most modern US weapon can defeat old Soviet boats from 70s. US stronk!
ReplyDeleteand to be honest the corvettes seem a little http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanuchka-class_corvette well armed to be snuck up on by an un-stealthy attack helicopter, seeing as the SA-N-4 has a range of 15km and the Hellfires is about 8km - and that's before getting on to the guns the corvette carries... basically any scenario with four corvettes vs two helicopter gunships, will not end well for the gunships.
ReplyDeletebut saying all this, no manufacturer video seems to be an 'accurate' representation of events because they are like car posters - they are there for people to watch and to sell a particular image of a system, not the actual capabilities of the system.