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Re: F-35 Code One
« Reply #12 on: August 14, 2007, 04:32:48 AM »
Right it has to be sustained supersonic flight, which means you have to have a supersonic cruise speed. Otherwise you might as well burn up half your fuel on afterburner going high Mach number, and fly at your normal cruise speed the rest of the way. And the JSFs cruise speed is set below the 1.0 mark. Which is understandable in the USAF high-low mix with the F-22 in service.

It's too bad the Growler probably can't keep up with either one. It will have run out of fuel on ingress.
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Re: F-35 Code One
« Reply #13 on: August 14, 2007, 06:52:09 PM »
Oh yes the Super Hornet.....a Hornet on steroids ;D ;D ;D i wonder is it really a succesfull move? or the US navy has chose to keep an inefficient type of aircraft, for the next 20 years?
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