The F-35 was designed to take a few hits.
The F-35 was designed to take a few hits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_1LyUAOI4Q
Tag: aircraft
The MQ-9 Reaper drone was great when the enemy didn’t have anti-air capabilities, but when they do, the slow, loud, and radar-visible drone is easily shot down.
The MQ-9 Reaper drone was great when the enemy didn’t have anti-air capabilities, but when they do, the slow, loud, and radar-visible drone is easily shot down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPY7CFUNW5k
Did Iran End the A-10’s Career?
The A-10 can do one thing really well–blowing up stuff on the ground. But, it can’t do much else, and is only brought in after the most threatening air-to-air threats are destroyed or suppressed. The military would prefer to have more general and advanced craft than one with such a narrow use. Congress has kept it alive because it is popular and gives their constituents jobs. A major advantage of the A-10 is its cheaper to fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHDWAeAxAYE
Iran Just Shot Down Two US Jets – War Enters Deadly New Phase
Iran Just Shot Down Two US Jets – War Enters Deadly New Phase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajqAOwPGcLQ
$750M Destroyed: How Russia Assisted Iran’s Biggest Strike of the War So Far
$750M Destroyed: How Russia Assisted Iran’s Biggest Strike of the War So Far
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqQ_bNXhnIo
Iran Didn’t Get Lucky—We Made It Easy
The Air Force has a doctrine where it should spread out planes and move which bases they fly from so it’s harder to take them out. The US apparently wasn’t practicing that doctrine, and is paying for it.
It is more expensive to move maintenance teams around or have different teams available at multiple bases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUJXlHTFBAI
USA Base was hit, Many Planes Lost | Iran War is a total Chaos
US loss multiple planes in Iranian strike in Saudi Arabia, likely with help from Russian intelligence. The US did not learn or implement the lessons from Ukraine regarding drones and protecting planes on the ground. The US looks like Russia losing expensive aircraft on the ground. The US is losing planes, people, radars, and facilities, and so far has gotten nothing from Iran. Iran shows no sign of giving in, and if they don’t, then the US lost expensive equipment, munitions, and lives for little gain. The US is showing that it is not ready for the new change in warfare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c594aKVeLLM
NEW VIDEO shows US SUPER HORNET dodging IRANIAN MISSILE
F18 Super Hornet almost hit by Iranian missile after it shot at a ground target with its gun. Shrapnel likely did hit the plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOIMXUPbR2I
F-35 reportedly hit by IRANIAN MISSILE, makes emergency landing
An F-35 may have been hit by an Iranian anti-air missile. The plane and pilot survived, making it safely to a base in the Middle East. Stealth makes the F-35 harder to detect and hit, but not invisible. If a video given by Iran purporting to be the F-35 getting hit is real, then it looks like a smaller payload delivered by a relatively short-ranged infrared or electro-optically guided weapon, or even a shoulder fired missile. If a radar guided weapon targeted it, the plane would sense it and the pilot would be trying to avoid it. And if larger, longer-range weapons hit it, the plane would not have survived that size of payload.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEA-vXR3WgI
Four US service members killed in plane crash over Iraq
“A U.S. military refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, in an incident the military said involved another aircraft but was not the result of hostile or friendly fire.
The deaths add to the seven U.S. service members who have already been killed as part of U.S. operations against Iran which began on February 28.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/four-us-members-killed-plane-094429672.html