10 Technologies Fitted In A Single Aircraft........

[Thunder Bolt]

1. A pilot helmet that can see 360 degrees around the jet at once.

For so long, X-ray vision has eluded everyone but science-fiction writers. Until now. Using imagery from six infrared cameras in the aircraft’s skin, the helmet F-35 pilots wear allows them to “look through the airframe” for an unprecedented 360° view.

2. A virtually undetectable, radar-absorbent body…

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Stealth isn’t speed. It’s evasion, and the F-35’s sleek design and radar-absorbent body make the plane “virtually undetectable by radar.” And each aircraft’s two-year production ends with a precise coating process performed by robots.

3. …as well as an unmatched radar of its own.

Completely free of mechanical moving parts, the F-35’s solid-state radar is designed specifically to pinpoint long-range targets both in the air and on the ground. Not only that, the radar can also act “as a narrowband jammer.”

4. A “brain” that paints a real-time picture of the battlefield.

they don’t call it a flying supercomputer for nothing. The F-35 parses huge amounts of data from on-board sensors. Test pilot Alan Norman explains: “The airplane [is] all interconnected with fiber, so we have a supersonic fiber network flying around.”
5. The first-ever 360-degree situational awareness system…

The only one of its kind, the F-35’s Distributed Aperture System is a “360-degree, spherical situational awareness” sensor, offering everything from missile detection to night vision. In short, it sees the enemy before they know they’ve been seen.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

6. …plus exceptional targeting technology.

Encased in a sapphire window below the cockpit is a sensor, the Electro-Optical Targeting System. Combining two types of infrared technologies, the EOTS gives pilots high-resolution imagery and superior targeting capabilities.

7. A robust IT network capable of supporting future aircraft.

It takes a lot of ingenuity to maintain an F-35. Specifically, it takes the Autonomic Logistics Information System. As Staff Sgt. Jason Ferguson explains, “ALIS is a computer-based network that we use to document all our aircraft maintenance.”

8. The most advanced avionics system..

When you sign up to pilot the world’s most advanced aircraft, “multitasking” should be a skill on your résumé. Luckily, the F-35’s avionics allow you to balance several operations at once — like friend-or-foe identification and precise enemy targeting.

9. An engine that can tell mechanics what’s wrong if it breaks.

Powering an aircraft that can reach a top speed of 1.6 Mach (or, as we call it, 1,200 mph) is no easy job. Fortunately, the last few years have seen research into vibration-based prognostics, so the F-35’s engine is constantly monitored.
10. And, finally, propulsion technology that allows it to hover in midair.

Parking in a city garage is tough, but parking in midair? You’d think it impossible, but thanks to the F-35’s propulsion technology, the aircraft can balance mid-flight and descend to the ground vertically. What’s more, it’s initiated by a single button!
10 Technologies You Didn’t Know Could Fit In A Single Aircraft

 

[HeinzG]

1. A pilot helmet that can see 360 degrees around the jet at once.

For so long, X-ray vision has eluded everyone but science-fiction writers. Until now. Using imagery from six infrared cameras in the aircraft’s skin, the helmet F-35 pilots wear allows them to “look through the airframe” for an unprecedented 360° view.

This helmet is utter BS. It's camera's cannot match the resolution or the subtlety of the naked eye. Pilots has complained that this cameras giving trouble when looking for dust speck size targets.

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

6. …plus exceptional targeting technology.

Encased in a sapphire window below the cockpit is a sensor, the Electro-Optical Targeting System. Combining two types of infrared technologies, the EOTS gives pilots high-resolution imagery and superior targeting capabilities.

7. A robust IT network capable of supporting future aircraft.

It takes a lot of ingenuity to maintain an F-35. Specifically, it takes the Autonomic Logistics Information System. As Staff Sgt. Jason Ferguson explains, “ALIS is a computer-based network that we use to document all our aircraft maintenance.”

8. The most advanced avionics system..

When you sign up to pilot the world’s most advanced aircraft, “multitasking” should be a skill on your résumé. Luckily, the F-35’s avionics allow you to balance several operations at once — like friend-or-foe identification and precise enemy targeting.

9. An engine that can tell mechanics what’s wrong if it breaks.

Powering an aircraft that can reach a top speed of 1.6 Mach (or, as we call it, 1,200 mph) is no easy job. Fortunately, the last few years have seen research into vibration-based prognostics, so the F-35’s engine is constantly monitored.
10. And, finally, propulsion technology that allows it to hover in midair.

Parking in a city garage is tough, but parking in midair? You’d think it impossible, but thanks to the F-35’s propulsion technology, the aircraft can balance mid-flight and descend to the ground vertically. What’s more, it’s initiated by a single button!
10 Technologies You Didn’t Know Could Fit In A Single Aircraft

Every single technology you listed have a shit load of problems.

 

[Gauss]

F-35 is itself not a great plane, its problems have been well documented but it will lead to great planes in the future.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

This helmet is utter BS. It's camera's cannot match the resolution or the subtlety of the naked eye. Pilots has complained that this cameras giving trouble when looking for dust speck size targets.

Most missions this infrared system is designed for will be at night where you can't make out that speck with the human eye.

Remember the U.S. doesn't just fiy in daylight. It flies at times and weather when human vision is almost useless and sensors are running the show.

 

[yugocrosrb95]

F35 is simply ahead of what the industry is capable off... Almost same situation with Eurofighter Typhoon, at least Typhoon turned out to be good and useful and was saved, F35 is doomed. It needs to be ditched, put on hold or redesigned.

 

[HeinzG]

Most missions this infrared system is designed for will be at night where you can't make out that speck with the human eye.

Remember the U.S. doesn't just fiy in daylight. It flies at times and weather when human vision is almost useless and sensors are running the show.

That's similar to what geniuses thought of the irrelevance of the aircraft's gun. They thought missiles will dominate the air warfare and guns are no longer applicable. But that's till US F4s went to Vietnam.

No one can predict the air warfare and how it would develop. If F 35 is use only in night it's not a all weather air plane. So much for the technological advance.

 

[gambit]

That's similar to what geniuses thought of the irrelevance of the aircraft's gun. They thought missiles will dominate the air warfare and guns are no longer applicable. But that's till US F4s went to Vietnam.

No one can predict the air warfare and how it would develop. If F 35 is use only in night it's not a all weather air plane. So much for the technological advance.

I cannot help but laugh, so please do not mind the emotes...



If an aircraft -- civilian or military -- is designed to be 'all weather', it does not mean daylight or after sunset. The 'all weather' context includes many factors. Believe it or not, the presence or absence of sunlight is not in that context.

The 'all weather' context means is there rain, or snow, or fog, for examples. Back in WW II, fog during daylight hrs prevented many missions. Not because fog have any effects on the planes or damages the propellers, but because fog impedes human vision. There is daylight, just that there is also enough suspended water vapor that the pilot cannot see to fly safely.

Flying the F-35 at night is a tactic, not because of the jet cannot fly in sunlight.

My advice to you: From now on, please stay out of technical issues.

 

[Maarkhoor]

F-35 and Euro Fighter will never be called successful because of over engineering. Both fighter can never met the success of F-16's.