{"id":3569,"date":"2018-05-26T22:17:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T22:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3569"},"modified":"2018-05-26T22:17:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T22:17:59","slug":"how-the-u-s-navys-new-block-iii-f-18-could-crush-j-20-and-su-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/26\/how-the-u-s-navys-new-block-iii-f-18-could-crush-j-20-and-su-57\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW THE U.S NAVY\u2019S NEW BLOCK III F-18 COULD CRUSH J-20 AND SU-57"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/F-18-BLOCK-III.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3570\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/F-18-BLOCK-III-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/F-18-BLOCK-III-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/F-18-BLOCK-III-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/F-18-BLOCK-III-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/F-18-BLOCK-III-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/F-18-BLOCK-III-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/F-18-BLOCK-III-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/F-18-BLOCK-III.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: The National Interest<\/p>\n<p>By Dave Majumdar<\/p>\n<p>As new adversary fifth-generation stealth fighters such as the Russian Sukhoi Su-57 PAK-FA and the Chengdu J-20 emerge from development, the United States Navy is working on developing and fielding new capabilities that will allow naval aviators to defeat the threat.<\/p>\n<p>The key is Boeing\u2019s new F\/A-18E\/F Block III Super Hornet\u2014and the advanced new technologies incorporated into the jet\u2014combined with the upgraded capabilities of the Boeing\/Lockheed Martin Infrared Search and Track (IRST) Block II pod.<\/p>\n<p>By upgrading older platforms with new datalinks, massively increased processing power and new sensors, Boeing and the Navy have found a way to negate the threat to carrier aviation from emerging low observable threat platforms. \u201cIRST\u2014infrared search and track long range counter-stealth targeting technology,\u201d Dan Gillian, Boeing\u2019s vice president of F\/A-18 &amp; EA-18 Programs for Strike, Surveillance and Mobility, told reporters on May 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is filling a gap for the carrier air wing, bringing that sensor back to the carrier air wing in a networked kind of way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/the-buzz\/how-the-navys-new-block-iii-super-hornet-could-crush-chinas-25964?page=show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The National Interest By Dave Majumdar As new adversary fifth-generation stealth fighters such as the Russian Sukhoi Su-57 PAK-FA and the Chengdu J-20 emerge from development, the United States Navy is working on developing and fielding new capabilities that will allow naval aviators to defeat the threat. The key is Boeing\u2019s new F\/A-18E\/F Block&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/26\/how-the-u-s-navys-new-block-iii-f-18-could-crush-j-20-and-su-57\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HOW THE U.S NAVY\u2019S NEW BLOCK III F-18 COULD CRUSH J-20 AND SU-57<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3572,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions\/3572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}