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USAF Gets F-35 Flight Simulator
cylonlover writes "Eglin Air Force Base has just taken delivery of a piece of hardware that would surely be the ultimate toy for flight sim gaming fans. The F-35 Lightning II Full Mission Simulator (FMS) system includes a high-fidelity 360-degree visual display system and a reconfigurable cockpit that can simulate all three variants of the F-35 Lightning II for US and international partner services – the conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) F-35A, the short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) F-35B, and the F-35C carrier variant."
Is it MMOG?
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
This will really help us battle the Al Qaeda Air Force.
... is just garbage and Australia and the RAND corporation SAYS it's garbage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITbGBmaqQkk
...but can it run Crysis?
On a project that is already behind and overbudget. Wonderful, especially while the reps are trying to cripple aid to the poor and handicapped.
And WTF do we need the F35 for exactly? Who the hell are we gonna fight that a well trained pilot in the F18 or even the F15-F16 won't be at the very least an even match? The Russians aren't building any new birds, the best they have is the Mg31 and those are rare, most of their is the MG 27 and SU27 which are 70s era tech. The Chinese? From the looks of their "stealth bird" it will be primitive as far as stealth and looks to be more for a national pride thing than a serious build up.
The rest of the world consists of threats of irregulars with ex Soviet hardware, most of it out of date and falling apart. hell the Brits are so desperate for targets in Libya just to give them an excuse to keep the Typhoon (their personal money hole) that they are blowing up abandoned tanks that the Libyans left rotting for lack of parts years ago just to have some footage to show the public.
This is stupid, its pointless, and it is nothing but more handouts to the top 1%ers in the MIC at a time when we can't afford it. We could have 10s of thousands of top o the line drones for less than this stupid ass plane, they would be cheaper, wouldn't risk multimillion dollar pilots, and are simple to replace. The age of fighter jocks is at an end, it is time for the government to face it and quit pissing money down a rathole.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
What I don't understand about this is how you build a simulator for a craft that only a handful of people have flown, is in limited production and for which there is no combat data in existence. I know that test pilots take their jobs pretty seriously but can they really have tried all of the stupid things that ALL of the multinational end-users are going to try?
Can, like, get that for my Mac? Is it Open?
I've had Eidos' Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Flight Sim on my Win 98 box since 1997. It has both the Boeing X-32 AND the Lockeed Martin X-35.
Take that USAF!
What kind of DLC is available for this game? Can I get an Insurgent Pack? How about Dudes with RPG's in Pickup Trucks? Rebel Strongholds Hidden Amongst Innocent Civilians?
It sounds like only an actual fighter pilot would likely be very good at it. Unless it has an extremely simplified mode for beginners and non-pilots, it's probably far too complex for your average flight sim gaming fan.
tl;dr: It's a training tool, not a game.
Funny thing about planes is they are the only weapon in the world that can kill everything on the battlefield.
Victory goes to the force with the most planes.
Viva Lockheed
Viva Boeing
Planes destroyed the largest navy ship ever put to sea.
Planes protect the best army in the world.
The lift fan design still has many issues, glad they have SIM that shows how it suppose to work, but for now it is fairy tail. Bad design, they will get it to work for little benefit and costing a lot a money, they are already 50% over budget on the project. Only really benefits are less downward thrust temperature and greater vertical thrust , but significant wear and tear on transmission,clutch and drive train. The second largest reason for helicopter failures drivetrain failure(clutch,driveshaft,transmission)http://www.helicoptersafety.org/CommonAccidents.asp.
last week it was the queer like jesus cave dwellers. not enough? following redevaluation to it's lowest possible demeanor, you guessed? the big ape. explicit love schmoozings to his uncle sam (ironic). get ready for some more keep it in your pants sermominations. will we ever learn anything from history? chariots? godlike? experimental? yikes
This reprint of a reprinted Lockheed Martin press release is simply awesome and it has convinced me to enlist in the Air Force. I have also decided to call all my elected representatives and ask for more funding for Lockhe... the military. You should all do the same! And by the way, I totally do not work for Lockheed Martin and have no interest in promoting their excellent products... because they are so awesome, I don't need to! Now lets go blow up some brown people.
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I started with Falcon 1 for Amiga, and went to Falcon 3 for a while, but that's about it... What's the gold standard now? I have a couple of Radeon 1G 5770s, big screen, and Windows 7 for gaming. Any recommendations?
How so? The thing has flown many missions including both Iraq wars, Kosovo, and most recently Libya. It does what it is advertised to do: Flys in a lot of bombs without being detected.
It is an exceedingly expensive bomber, but it does its job well.
When does Stephen Harper get his? It's the only reason I can see why he would waste our tax money on F35s
The F-35 was supposed to be a moderate performance, moderate cost fighter, like the glorious F-16. The military demanded too much, so the fixed unit cost was higher than expected. Instead of a redesign, the military wants the F-35 mass produced anyway. I wish they just made a next gen F-16.
this has to be far cheaper then having pilots train in real jets. especially over a year or so. if i were rich i'd buy one and mod it so I could fly to space and land on mars.
It's like 4 tokens. WTF. I'd rather play four games of Tekken.
Your knowledge of history is abysmal.
First, USSR proposed creation of anti-Hitler coalition in 1938 and actually was ready to move against Germany.
And yes, you read it correctly - in 1938. England basically said: "Fuck you, USSR! Hitler is a pig and a nationalist, but he's a CAPITALISTIC pig and a nationalist. So go rot in hell." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement ).
The USSR parsed this reply correctly as: "You're on your own" and decided to make the best of the situation by securing access to Leningrad (Winter War), annexing some former provinces of the Russian Empire and stalling for time (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact). And after the WWII began it became inevitable that USSR would have to intervene at some point.
Hitler then badly underestimated the Soviet army (which he called the "Colossus with feet of clay") partly because of the disastrous (for the USSR) Winter War. And that was what has caused the downfall of Nazi Germany. The USSR army was the main reason behind the Hitler's defeat.
They coulda just bought a copy of X-Plane for $79, it has an F-35 in it!
cause the sec they do that, they get lots of orders form the west to sell the products they sell to play for everything right?
Vietnam was not openly backed by Russia. Russian troops were not boots on the ground.
Over 10,000 Russian military advisors were on the ground in North Vietnam. This included helping with aircraft maintenance and anti-aircraft operations. Russians even participated in the interrogation of US POWs.
http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/russia_europe/vietnam_working_group/
US Special Forces killed 100+ Russian or Chinese advisors during the raid on the Son Tay POW camp. Admittedly they assaulted the wrong building and did not know the occupants were foreign advisors. Son Tay was near the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi and was considered safe.
http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/1995/November%201995/1195raid.aspx
I know that was simplified but it was still fucking complicated.
I never could successfully carrier trap the F-18 in the 3.0 extension. Couldn't find a clean enough controller to even realistically attempt it.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Creating a simulator like this to train new car drivers would probably save some lives.
Shhhhhh, not so loud. The Airforce hasn't figured that out and has been using F-16s in ground attack roles for years and years.
That does not change the fact that the F-16 was not designed to be a multi-mission aircraft like the F-18 was. The F-16 was designed by a renegade group that wanted to design a pure fighter. As small and simple as possible. It grew since its original introduction but its still a fighter design, not an attack design. It is seriously vulnerable in the attack role, like the P-51 Mustangs were when they went after ground targets after the bombers they were escorting reached a safe point.
The Air Force isn't really interested in close air support (Pentagon leadership, not the pilots in Iraq/Afghanistan of course). They say they are interested in the role in order to get additional aircraft. Note how they would rather press a fighter into the attack role rather than use the A-10 which was designed exclusively for that single role, does it better and is far more survivable. The Air Force gets what the Air Force wants, fighters, regardless of what the mission actually is.
The Army goes along with this since the Air Force's limited capabilities justifies the Army attack helicopter programs. No A-10 type aircraft around and AH-64 Apaches become much easier to get funding for.
Exactly this.
I'm Australian and I was chatting to some friends of mine regarding the A-10. It's the perfect plane for us. All we do is bomb things anyway, they are perfect for our rough climate, and they are CHEAP. JSF is $150 million each or so, A-10 is $10 million. As a ground attack aircraft (RAAF's primary mission since Vietnam) the A-10 is vastly superior.
And it has air-to-air capability too! No, it won't beat a JSF, but for the same price you can get fifteen of them. The JSF can't carry that many missiles.
Australia should be flying A-10's for the next 75 years.
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