I suspect Asiatrails is wargaming right now vs. a squadron of F-35s shouting, "All your base are belongs to us!", shooting 'em all down from 100 NM away, employing the very same "unclassified" technologies and tactics he's developed to defeat the scourge of VLO aircraft...

Ah yes, the intro to Zero Wing by Toaplan, 1989 vintage, SEGA Genesis - were you even alive back then?

The correct phrase is first:

よう、おまいら元気！？ - How are you gentlemen?
このスレは俺達が乗っとりますた。 - All you base are belong to us
本当にありがとうございますた - You are on the way to destruction

Never really understood who or what CATS was, good game for its time though.

Now to serious stuff, I appreciate your coherent response and suggest that you sit back and wait in line for a tour of the soylent green factory, it will change your position in life.

Well, you answered the question - doing nothing - and then ranting about a personal opinion - totally unrelated to any thing of value to this thread.

I have gone back and read your posts, in summary they are biased and exhibit behavior very similar to that of a Troll or a Sockpuppet. Either way I believe that DNFTFT is a suitable closing statement.

Asia

6 internal AMRAAMs on the F-35? COOL!!! Are they working on this right now or is this after SDD?

No plans for 6 internal AIM-120's right now. No one here will believe it. The thread has spiraled out of control.

Dwight, while I have suggested the similar assessment of AIM-120C/D being perhaps only an avg system by 2016 with the assumed advances today and soon to come around the world, it's really unpredicatable what sort of priority DoD/USAF will put on new F-35 a2a armaments by those early dates, imo.

If one looks at the current F-22 load-out protocol, if I'm not mistaken, the going protocol is to arm legacy a/c with the better (more expensive) a2a rounds, to leverage the total force... so extrapolate out to 2016 and perhaps the F-22/F-35 will have the 120D/9x and remaining legacy will get the hypothetical new-breed super AIMs?

I'm just more pessimistic as you can probably see, re: ongoing and future development costs, procurement costs (materials, schedules, labor, etc) and the full rate numbers procured, etc. But I truly hope sufficient funds will be available, after the R&D stuff, to actually arm these suckers with equivalent, cutting-edge weaponry. We'll just have to see what the future official protocol/philosophy will be on this topic?

The F-35 Program Office said that:-

(1) The F-35 will enter service with the ability to carry 4 AAMs internally plus up to 10 additional missiles externally.

(2) The F-35 weapon bays have room for additional air-to-air missiles and studies have been conducted on advancing launcher technology to capitalize on the additional space to carry more than 4 AAMs.

(3) Currently, there are no US plans, schedules or funding for the implementation of multi-AAM launchers for the internal stations.

Anything else you may or may not have heard is bullshit.

In short, 6 AAMs is physically possible but is not being pursed by the USA right now because it is low on the priority list. Unless Israel, Australia, the UK or some other F-35 partners who may be using the F-35 as their primary high superiority fighter chooses to develop a twin ejector for the F-35 internal bays using a few million of their own currency, such a device will not be available until the high priority tasks have been retired.

The priority is to stay on the revised schedule and get the F-35 into low-rate-initial-production by 2009, full rate production (132+ aircrafts per year) and IOC by 2012. The aircraft has to enter service with the baseline capability to prosecute the vast majority of anticipated A2A and precision strike missions with the core subset of possible loadouts. Additional capabilities and loadout options can come later.

http://www.jsf.mil/downloads/documents/ ... 202007.pdf

The other thing to consider that the AIM-120C/D may no longer be the contemporary AAM of the US armed services in 2016. There should be a new missile or one actively being developed. So, a question one has to ask is whether it is a wise thing to bend over backwards to squeeze out a dual ejector at a time when schedules and funding can least afford it only to get it in service in time for it to be retired.

14 AAMs thats much more than any other fighter. Any so why do people say the F-35 is not a good air superiority fighter if it can carry 14 AAMs?

I can see why they don't need 6 internal AAMs if it can already carry 14. If some partner nations do go for the 6 internal AAM than no doubt the U.S. will go for it too but as of right now no one is. 14 is more than enough.

The F-35 Program Office said that:-

(1) The F-35 will enter service with the ability to carry 4 AAMs internally plus up to 10 additional missiles externally.