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2018-03-30 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Report: Israeli stealth fighters fly over Iran
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Posted by Frank G 2018-03-30 08:22|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 Seen in google searches:
No ferry range figure was ever published for any F-35 variant. What has been published is various range requirements by plane’s users, USAF, USN and so on. What they state is that the plane has X range while carrying Y set of weaponry on a very specific altitude path at specific speeds with a very specific excess fuel reserved for maneuvering. Of course, all these specifics are classified. What we do know is that a strike mission USAF needs allows F35A to cover 600 nm. In pure air to air mission, the same F35A can cover 750 nm.

All that suggests F-35A has potential ferry range of some 1600 nm, possibly even 1700nm.
Posted by 3dc 2018-03-30 09:35||   2018-03-30 09:35|| Front Page Top

#2 There are no IAF planes flying other Iran. And they are not armed with @@@@@@@ deleted by censor.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-03-30 10:47||   2018-03-30 10:47|| Front Page Top

#3  And they are not armed with @@@@@@@ deleted by censor.


with paintballs? Matzoballs? Pigballs?
Posted by AlanC 2018-03-30 10:51||   2018-03-30 10:51|| Front Page Top

#4  And they are not armed with @@@@@@@ deleted by censor.

LOx.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-03-30 11:41||   2018-03-30 11:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Fake news. All the ranges outside of any F-35 published range (Air-Air range of 760 nm, 875 miles). Bandar Abbas will be out of range even with the F-35 + JSOW-ER combo (~900nm, 1035 miles).

Jerusalem to Bandar Abbas 1305 miles
Jerusalem to Esfahan 963 miles
Jerusalem to Shiraz 1040 miles
Posted by Gleremble Big Foot8836 2018-03-30 13:07||   2018-03-30 13:07|| Front Page Top

#6 All the ranges outside of any F-35 published range

Not from Prince Sultan
Posted by Mulla Richard 2018-03-30 13:45||   2018-03-30 13:45|| Front Page Top

#7 @#5: The Saudi Air Force is refueling them in the air. Shhhh! Don't tell anyone.
Posted by Flavimble Pherenter9555 2018-03-30 14:06||   2018-03-30 14:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Living rent free in the Mullahs' minds. I'm sure there is a lot of free space in there.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-03-30 15:20||   2018-03-30 15:20|| Front Page Top

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