{"id":1651,"date":"2017-03-02T12:52:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T12:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2017-03-02T12:53:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T12:53:20","slug":"f-35s-dominate-war-games-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/03\/02\/f-35s-dominate-war-games-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"F-35s DOMINATE WAR GAMES EXERCISE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced : Royal Navy<\/p>\n

After eight days at \u2018war\u2019 the F-35A conventional aircraft achieved a 15:1 kill ratio against the F-16s.<\/p>\n

The \u2018jump jet\u2019 B version of the fifth-generation strike fighter will fly from HMS Queen Elizabeth and her sister Prince of Wales.<\/p>\n

Lt Col George Watkins, an F-35 pilot and 34th Fighter Squadron commander, said: \u201cI\u2019ve had four of my (F-35A) pilots come back from missions, guys who have flown the F-15 and F-16 at Red Flag for years, and tell me \u2018This is amazing. I\u2019ve never had this much situational awareness while I\u2019m in the air.I know who\u2019s who, I know who\u2019s being threatened, and I know where I need to go next.\u2019<\/p>\n

“You just don\u2019t have all of that information at once in fourth-generation aircraft.\u201d<\/p>\n

Red Flag, held annually at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, involved pilots and maintainers from 388th and 419th Fighter Wings at Hill AFB, Utah.<\/p>\n

Hill\u2019s airmen generated 110 sorties, including their first ten-jet F-35A sortie.<\/p>\n

They have not lost a single sortie to a maintenance issue and have a 92 percent mission-capable rate, said 1st Lt Devin Ferguson, assistant officer in charge of the 34th Aircraft Maintenance Unit. Legacy aircraft averaged 70 to 85 per cent mission-capable.<\/p>\n

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Red Flag is designed to provide airmen with realistic combat scenarios and increase survivability in real combat. The three-week exercise pitted \u201cBlue Air\u201d (friendly) against \u201cRed Air\u201d (enemy) in an all-out air war featuring air-to-air, air-to-ground, search and rescue, and special forces elements.<\/p>\n

Flying alongside F-22 Raptors, as well as a variety of US and coalition fourth-generation aircraft from Australia and Typhoons from the RAF, the capabilities of the F-35A were put to the test with robust combat scenarios that focus on the jet\u2019s core capabilities.<\/p>\n

Last month the UK signed an initial release to service which sets out safe operating limits.<\/p>\n

Pilots and engineers from the Royal Navy are currently based in the US working on bringing the F-35B into service with HMS Queen Elizabeth due to embark her first jets in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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