{"id":2076,"date":"2016-05-09T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T00:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2023-08-06T16:10:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T06:10:04","slug":"f-35-joint-strike-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/f-35-joint-strike-fighter\/","title":{"rendered":"F-35 Joint Strike Fighter &#8211; Just another fighter bomber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/peter-layton\/\">PETER LAYTON<\/a>\u00a0|<\/p>\n<p>The Lockheed Martin F-35 is finally on track after numerous technical issues, long delays\u00a0and large cost increases. Daniel Conroy, LM\u2019s\u00a0F-35 Director asserts: &#8220;We can see the light\u00a0at the end of the tunnel.&#8221; This is good news for those awaiting aircraft delivery but also\u00a0signals it is time to take stock of where the\u00a0F-35 \u2018tunnel\u2019 has taken defence aviation and\u00a0airpower more generally.<\/p>\n<p>In many respects it seems the\u00a0fanboys and the critics are both\u00a0right: the aircraft does impressively\u00a0what it was designed to do but is\u00a0that now what needs to be done?<\/p>\n<h4>What does the F-35 do?<\/h4>\n<p>The F-35 program began as the\u00a0Soviet Union collapsed in the early\u00a01990s. For the USAF, the dominant\u00a0player in the program, the F-35 was primarily meant to replace the\u00a01970s designed F-16 fighter. Back then, the need was for a low-cost lightweight dogfighter to shoot down the many thousands of Soviet\u00a0fighters expected to be encountered\u00a0over Western Germany during a\u00a0Third World War. Accordingly, the\u00a0F-16 entered USAF service as a\u00a0highly manoeuvrable, high thrust\u00a0to weight aircraft armed with a gun\u00a0and a couple of short range infrared\u00a0missiles, and able to be affordably\u00a0churned out in the thousands to match the Soviet hordes.<\/p>\n<p>The 1990s design drivers for the\u00a0F-35 as the F-16 replacement were very different, indeed, almost a mirror image. Post-Cold War, the USSR\u2019s large numbers of air defence fighters had vanished. American air\u00a0superiority was almost a given in any conflict, being only now challenged by a small number of surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems. The strategic drivers of force development\u00a0were now being able to intervene in failing states at low cost and inflicting low collateral damage.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/a\/griffith.edu.au\/file\/d\/0Bw7tWHTFTMDqNFpzZmdYVXl3TzA\/view?pref=2&amp;pli=1\">F-35 Joint Strike Fighter &#8211; Just another fighter bomber<\/a>&#8221; article by Griffith Asia Institute Visiting Fellow Peter Layton, please visit Australian Air Power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETER LAYTON\u00a0| The Lockheed Martin F-35 is finally on track after numerous technical issues, long delays\u00a0and large cost increases. 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