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1)F-16 Testbeds for F-35 twitter.com/VLO225/status/…
VLO225@VLO225
F-16 used in tech risk reduction for the F-35. Diverted Supersonic Inlet
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Right, let's do some quick analysis.
The Iranian military effort, the conventional one, has, as was expected by every wargame ever hosted, collapsed.
Their navy is done for, their air force has been eviscerated, their anti-air severely degraded.
But that doesn't matter.
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Based on small warhead, and EO/IR guidance, my top candidates for the SAM which shot at F-35 are Majid and Qaem-118.
It could potentially be 358 or 359, but less likely as they are slow and have distinctive fins.
Alex Hollings@AlexHollings52
This is very interesting stuff... Notable that the F-35 made it home. Most surface-to-air interceptors launched by long-range systems have massive warheads (~320 lbs). I don't think Fat Amy could eat one of those in stride — so what was the interceptor?
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@TKohoto ehh looks like there was kind of hit but F-35 has been tested vs manpad level stuff so likley it could have limped its way back x.com/SR_Planespotte…
𝗦𝗥_𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿@SR_Planespotter
People forget the missile test where it did basically nothing to the jet.
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I know there is no DIRCM system installed on the F-35 that we know of, but it would be funny if it turned out the explosion was just the DIRCM blinding the missile and it was a close call.
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
Iran just released footage reportedly showing one of its air defense systems successfully hitting an American F-35.
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Something looks VERY sus with this.
> Sensor appears cooled, dynamic range set window oddly for sky?
> Resolving AB plume details?
> No secondary plume luminance against smooth background of space, should have some shimmer and effects visible immediately
> Sensor bloom wrong.
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
Iran just released footage reportedly showing one of its air defense systems successfully hitting an American F-35.
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@heretos58455629 @MarioLeb79 Stealth planes aren't invisible , we don't know the exact details
If it was operating on low enough altitude it could fired upon by manpads . We also don't know if the plane was carrying eternal munitions which raises RCS
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CNN report: A US Army F-35 fighter jet made an emergency landing at a US Army base in the Middle East after being hit by anti-aircraft fire during a mission in Iran. A CENTCOM spokesperson said the plane landed safely and the pilot is in stable condition; this is the first time Iran has hit a US Army plane.
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Some things I would spend $200B on.
-Opening a second B-21 production line. $4.5B
-Plan a second F-47 line $4.5B
-Restart C-17 production. $8B
-Buy 48 US-2s from Japan. $7.5B
-Max the lines of F-35, F-15EX and F-16V, all to the USAF. $28B
-Grow the Army to 680,000. $42B
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The current shortfall in upper-tier missile defense production is in part due to a significant segment of the political class that simply refused to believe the technology worked. For decades, this cohort viewed increased investment as inherently destabilizing or wasteful. One has to wonder if the sheer volume of COCOM demand for force protection, coupled with the weight of real-world performance data, will finally drown out the noise and allow the DOD to invest in quantities needed to deter and win future fights.
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧@ColbyBadhwar
🇺🇸 US theater ballistic missile defense production: SM-6: 125/year PAC-3 MSE: 620/y Talon (THAAD): 96/y SM-3 IB: 36-48/y (capacity for 60/y) SM-3 IIA: 24/y As always production≠procurement, but these are the ones that are being actively procured. GBI production concluded and PAC-2 GEM-T is not procured by the Army anymore despite remaining in production.
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>Still exclusively using stand off munitions
Img 1: unexploded Mk-84 and a small part of JDAM's tail section recovered from Mohammadiyeh
Image 2: unexploded Mk-84 in Tehran
Image 3: an (likely IAF) F-15 dropping a pair of GBUs over Karaj
Img 4: MQ-9 firing Hellfire over Shiraj
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(1/9) Fundamentally, this is an issue of scale.
Patriot has 17 operators with >240 fire units (FU) sold to date.
SAMP/T has 3 with 17.5 FUs delivered, and if you count naval systems (9 users) & equivalent number of missile tubes, you can claim equivalent to a sum of 60 SAMP/T.
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧@ColbyBadhwar
Yes, it has been 4 years. In that time PAC-3 MSE production has increased by 100%. PAC-2 GEM-T probably by around 50%. This year over 1000 PATRIOT interceptors will likely be produced, compared to a few hundred Aster 30s. This disparity will continue to grow wider, with MBDA Germany opening up a GEM-T production line and Lockheed Martin scaling MSE to 2000 per year.
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Given it has been nearly two weeks and I have not been able to regain access to my account, I think it is probably time to call it quits.
RIP.
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