Twelve F-35s, now based at Kadena Air Base, Japan, arrived from Utah’s 34th Fighter Squadron, Hill Air Force Base, officials with Pacific Air Forces said in a statement. It is reported that the Air Force has more than 125, F-35s in its inventory. I'm a big fan of Pratt & Whitney Canada, it was the PT6A turboprop engine back in the day which removed the co-pilot on short puddle jumps out over the ocean because of the reliability factor. "If I can't run a Pratt & Whitney I'd rather be riding Wendy!" Delays on this F-35 tech bird were because of production cost incorporating enough engineering changes and affordability initiatives to lower the manufacturing costs.
Well, we're past that now, the Pratt & Whitney F135 is an afterburning turbofan the F135 is the derivative of the proven F119-PW-100 engine developed for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, a single-engine strike fighter. The F135 family has several distinct variants; a conventional, forward thrust variant and a multi-cycle Short Take-Off Vertical Landing STOVL variant that includes a forward lift fan as seen below.
Media Kit from Lockheed Martin F-35
Show of Force
While service officials describe the move as a routine deployment, called a Theater Security Package, the current tensions with North Korea are by no means lost on the Air Force and other Pentagon planners – who are preparing to demonstrate F-35 power, technology and combat readiness in a series of upcoming exercises. Roll the film already!
US Military News
F-22 Raptor Gear Up!
"Six F-22 fighters from the U.S. Air Force are scheduled to join the joint South Korea-U.S. air force exercise Vigilant Ace from Dec. 4-8," the officials said.
The Raptor, an air superiority fighter, is capable of flying to key enemy facilities like the Afghanistan narcotic factories (Thanks for that POTUS) and launching precision attacks under the radar. Its maximum speed is about Mach 2.5 ah, that's 1903.018 mph!
Two Pratt & Whitney F119 engines power the U.S. Air Force’s F-22 Raptor. Supercruise, the ability to operate supersonically without afterburning, gives the F-22 exceptional combat performance without compromising mission range. The F119 engine delivers unparalleled aircraft maneuverability with its unique two-dimensional pitch vectoring exhaust nozzle. The F-22’s unique combination of stealth, speed, agility and situational awareness, combined with lethal long-range air-to-air and air-to-ground weaponry, makes it the world’s preeminent air dominance fighter.
The F-22 Raptor combines five distinctive features into one platform:
• Very low observable stealth
• Supercruise
• Extreme agility
• Information fusion
• Enhanced maintainability
Let's just get to the film, look at swarm! High Alert: US Military to Deploy F-22 Raptors Stealth Fighters to Korea Next Month. Checkout that maneuver @ 9:20 time stamp, oh that hurts!
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