(Luft) Lockheed Martin F-35 - Lightning II

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http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/ta...ation.aspx

Red Flag 17-1 pushes domain, fifth-gen integration

NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (AFNS) -- As coalition pilots, intelligence analysts and cyber and space operators convene at the Nevada Test and Training Range north of Las Vegas for Red Flag 17-1, they have one goal in mind: work together to defeat the adversary, which at times is 20 living adversaries simultaneously working to attack allied forces on a multi-domain battlefield.

Integration across domains and platforms is an essential practice the realistic combat training exercise emphasizes.

“It’s in our slogan; air, space and cyber space. These are the domains that we operate in. We can fight a war in an air domain only, but we are more effective when you add in cyber and space,” said U.S. Air Force Col. Peter Fesler, the Red Flag Air Expeditionary commander and 1st Fighter Wing commander at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. “All the capabilities in those domains when combined produce enhanced effects that are more lethal against our adversary.”........

http://www.businessinsider.de/f-35a-red-...?r=US&IR=T

The F-35 just dominated its latest test — and now it may finally be ready for prime time
After achieving an awesome air-to-air kill ratio of 15-to-one, the F-35 trounced ground targets at the US Air Force's Red Flag exercise — and now the world's most expensive weapons system may finally be ready for the front lines.....

Scheint das es “nur“ 15-17 dieser “Kosteneffektiven“ Legacy Fighter bedarf um eine F35 zu killen. Doch das die Realität bzw. dass was ihr am nächsten kommt (Red Flag), nun auch noch besser ausschaut als die Hochglanz Broschüre von LM, ist schon eine Überraschung.


Fazit:

http://breakingdefense.com/2017/02/at-re...-lo-world/

At Red Flag ‘It’s Tough To Be Legacy Aircraft In An LO World’

Those are the words of someone who should know, the leader of the aggressor squadron at Red Flag, the man who tries to kill U.S. forces. Lt. Col. Tyler Lewis, commander of the 57th Adversary Tactics Support Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, echoed comments we’ve heard before, that he often had no idea he was going to die until he was declared dead. Why? The F-35’s combination of stealth, Electronic Warfare, cyber and sensors lets them find, target and destroy an enemy plane from beyond visual range......