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Bro can you give us specifications about Levent class LHD and its differences from Juan Carlos. Also
1- Isn't it possible to station VTOL aircraft in it?
2- Does Navy have any plans to equip the ship with F-35B since the JSF orders are 100 with an option with 16?
Which Missiles this ship can fire ? If any ?Bro can you give us specifications about Levent class LHD and its differences from Juan Carlos. Also
1- Isn't it possible to station VTOL aircraft in it?
2- Does Navy have any plans to equip the ship with F-35B since the JSF orders are 100 with an option with 16?
Bro can you give us specifications about Levent class LHD and its differences from Juan Carlos. Also
1- Isn't it possible to station VTOL aircraft in it?
2- Does Navy have any plans to equip the ship with F-35B since the JSF orders are 100 with an option with 16?
1- Indeed bro.
2-It is known that Turkey has a strong interest for F-35B variant of JSF.
Which Missiles this ship can fire ? If any ?
the strong belief on this question is yes, because. navy asks for Jet blast resistant coating on flight deck which is similar to ones used in ACs. If i am not mistaken its included in RfP ,or in the files of design reqirements. For legal source i may not show any,just need to wait.2- Does Navy have any plans to equip the ship with F-35B since the JSF orders are 100 with an option with 16?
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2- Does Navy have any plans to equip the ship with F-35B since the JSF orders are 100 with an option with 16?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I read somewhere that the ski jump for the "Turkish" juan carlos' was not wanted......a very sad decision if true
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F-35B doesn't need ski jump... Runway is enough...
The existing LHD design is made with Harrier in mind. Contary to Harrier, the JSF has large and very powerful engine which means large amount of heat and pressure while vertical landing. So, ship deck must be specially coated to handle that. I read smowhere that the newest LHA had to be retrofitted to handle these. That added weight which will effect the stability in the rough sea and performance. Apart from these upper hangar height must be increased to accomadate JSF which is taller than Harrier and elevators must be stronger to handle increased weight of JSF. Added weight again. The Osprey had similar issues like JSF, but lesser in weight. Solution simply adding a special aft landing spot is solution which was already present in the tender requirement. JSF can use this spot for occasional landings but not for routine.Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I read somewhere that the ski jump for the "Turkish" juan carlos' was not wanted......a very sad decision if true
The heat problem might be solved with this special coating.The existing LHD design is made with Harrier in mind. Contary to Harrier, the JSF has large and very powerful engine which means large amount of heat and pressure while vertical landing. So, ship deck must be specially coated to handle that. I read smowhere that the newest LHA had to be retrofitted to handle these. That added weight which will effect the stability in the rough sea and performance. Apart from these upper hangar height must be increased to accomadate JSF which is taller than Harrier and elevators must be stronger to handle increased weight of JSF. Added weight again. The Osprey had similar issues like JSF, but lesser in weight. Solution simply adding a special aft landing spot is solution which was already present in the tender requirement. JSF can use this spot for occasional landings but not for routine.
Adding ski-jump is used for shorter take-off with larger take-off weight. No ski-jump is not means JSF cannot take-off.
Over all the problem is not just having ski-jump or not.
Remember a few weeks ago when we ran the picture above showing an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter hovering over what appears to be a new deck coating aboard the USS Wasp?
We wondered is the coating was designed to absorb the F-35B’s hot exhaust that many had worried would melt the ship’s deck. Well, the Navy has just put out a little more detail on the coating in a press release announcing the end of F-35B sea trials.
It turns out, this is indeed a new, heat-resistant deck coating called Thermion. It’s made of bonded ceramic and aluminum and was applied to landing spot nine on the Wasp’s flight deck — “a small area used for vertical landings,” according to the Navy.
The press release quotes a Navy technician who worked on the deck coating as saying, “the Thermion shows no signs of heat stress, which is good for the F-35, and eventually good for all surface ships.”
Interesting. I wonder if Thermion will be applied to the entire flight deck on amphibious assault ships slated to carry F-35Bs or is it too heavy and expensive to apply to the entire flight deck?
The Bravo isn’t slated to return for more sea trials aboard the Wasp until 2013, “after Wasp receives additional modifications for F-35B operations,” states the release.
Speaking of modifications, we also noticed that a large radome has been removed from the ship’s port side, just off the flight deck area where the F-35s were landing. Relocating this radome could be one of the modifications the release is talking about.