The New F-35 Lightning II

The New F-35 Lightning II The new F-35 Lightning II is the newest single seat, single engine, multirole, stealth, fighter. This multirole fighter has been designed to replace several aircraft in use now. It will replace the F-16, the A-10, the F/A-18, and the AV-8B.

Right away the thing that jumps out at me is the fact that one airplane will replace so many other different aircraft with so many varied functions. I can see how it will be so much easier to support and maintain. The first thing which jumps out at me is the fact that there will be so many fewer spare parts to keep track of and to maintain. That translates into a huge savings right off of the bat. Also when you look at the variety of missions that it performs you should notice that you don’t have to train a variety of pilots on a lot of different aircraft. This alone will result in a savings of billions of dollars required to train our Pilot’s ring customers on a variety of aircraft.

The F-35 is second to the F-22 Raptor as a fighter plane. It is 4x more effective than any other existing fighter, 8x more effective than any existing air to ground combat aircraft, and 3x more effective than any existing recon and Air Defense suppression air craft.

The F-35 has better range and is easier to maintain than the aircraft that it eill replace but check this out. The fighter does not have to point at the target that it shoots at because of the helmet technology that it uses. The pilot merely has to use the display in his helmet to sight, and fire at his target.