Well well well.I hope next SG purchase can include
internal weapon carriage.
We cant afford buy billions dollars JSF or F22 ,for political
reasons.
u have to be careful for your neighbours' feeling.Right?
But with a little bit more,we can buy one fighters or
striker
with LO or very low RCS,like F 15 SE.Internal weapon carriage
sure can help.
So,the next version shall be called F 15 SG/SE!!So
complicated.
rubbish. SG's version was originally called the F15/T . the
Korean one is known as the F15 slam eagle or F15K. dont trash talk
about designations if you dont know them.
we cant afford JSF ? more like you cant afford a brain. go look
at the budget and do a third degree approximation of how much
military spending goes to procurement.
Singapore has shown interest in
possibly buying up to 100 of the stealthy, multi-role F-35 Joint
Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft over coming decades, said the general
in charge of the programme for the Pentagon.
Said Air Force
Major-General Charles Davis, the Pentagon’s programme chief: “The
Israelis have said they’d take up to 100 aircraft. The Singaporeans
have said basically the same thing.” Embassy spokesmen for
the two countries had no immediate comment. The world’s most
advanced fighter jet, the supersonic F-35 is designed to attack
moving targets in any environment.
It uses stealth technology to
prevent detection by radar or infrared sensors. Development of the
super-fighter was co-financed by Britain, Italy, the Netherlands,
Turkey, Canada, Australia, Denmark and Norway. Singapore, as a
security cooperation participant of the multinational programme,
has access to proprietary information, including flight
simulations. Israel is currently the only nation involved at this
level, one rung down from the nine JSF programme partners.
Singapore’s Ministry of Defence, in
a previous comment on the F-35 JSF, said the plane was “a potential
candidate” to meet the air force’s “longer-term requirements for a
multi-role fighter”. The United States currently plans to buy a
total of 2,443 F-35 models. Hundreds of others may be sold overseas
to replace a range of fighters, including Lockheed Martin F-16s and
Boeing F-18s. It is the costliest US arms programme ever at a
projected US$299 billion (S$407 billion). The conventional version
is projected to cost about US$68 million a piece. ~ AGENCIES
WASHINGTON: The F-35 Joint Strike
Fighter, which Singapore has reportedly expressed interest
in purchasing 100 in quantity, is expected to be the
world’s premier strike aircraft through 2040. The stealthy F-35
Lightning II, as it is called, will redefine the concept of
multi-role strike aircraft.
It is the first-ever aircraft
designed to replace four existing aircraft from three US services.
These are operational fighters such as the US Air Force’s F-16
Fighting Falcon and the “tank-killing” A-10 Thunderbolt, the US
Navy and Marine Corps’ F-18 Hornet and the Marines’ AV-8 Harrier
“jump jet”. In addition to stealth, speed and manoeuvreability, the
fifth-generation F-35 has increased range and carries a greater
payload than the fighters it is replacing. It is able to
simultaneously fight at least eight enemy planes and, at the same
time, lock-on to as many as 16 enemy ground targets. Also, it can
track literally hundreds of targets for 360 degrees and at tracking
distances that far exceed the distances of existing fighter
aircraft.
The multi-role, all-weather
day-and-night fighter and attack air system is designed to operate
as a Short Take-off and Vertically Land (STOVL) aircraft from land
bases and from the next generation of aircraft carriers. Its new
AIM-9X air-to-air missile can perform high off-boresight shots
without turning the aircraft’s nose towards the target. Its Aesa
radar allows the aircraft to invade, blind or fool enemy sensors
and radar at ranges of up to hundreds of kilometres. The JSF will
take on the mission of intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance.
A fleet of F-35s will be able to
conduct missions deep into enemy territory to take advantage of
physics, by being nearer the targets, while deepening the
areas of surveillance. The F-35 Lightning II’s first successful
flight was in December 2006. The pilots who fly the super-fighter
have nothing but accolades for the aircraft. Said Lockheed Martin’s
chief test pilot Jon Beesley: “This is the plane that, because
of its stealth, will be able to go in and kick down the door
on the first day of a war.” ~ AGENCIES
