(Luft) Lockheed Martin F-35 - Lightning II

[revan]

Übrigens ist vor 2 Tagen auf Defencenews und Breakingdefense durchgesickert das man beschlossen hat das LCS Programm um 12 Einheiten (von 52 auf 40) zu kürzen und dafür zusätzlich 31 F35C wie andere Waffen (F18E/F/G, AIM120D,SM6 und E2D) die man gegen den Russen und Rot China gegrauchen könnte zu kaufen.

Dazu:

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Navy Fights For 52 LCS After SecDef Cuts To 40: Presence vs. Warfighting


....What Carter Wants Instead

31 more F-35C fighters, whose stealth, sensors, networking, and electronic warfare are touted as crucial for a future high-tech war (though the Navy has demonstrated a lack of enthusiasm for the F-35C until recently);

an unspecified number of additional F/A-18E/F Super Hornets;
upgrades to a host of existing aircraft and ships, including an additional Virginia Payload Module that massively increases the missile capacity of attack submarines fitted with one;
and a lot more high-end missiles, both air-to-air AIM-120s and anti-air/missile defense SM-6s. While the Navy had planned to buy SM-6 and other munitions at the “minimum sustaining rate” required to keep factories going, Carter wrote, his plan “will maximize production of SM-6 missiles and maintain procurement of other advanced munitions.”.....