Unlike many legacy planes, the F-35 is built with access panels to allow technicians to more easily make adjustments. This makes changing out parts “a whole lot faster,” said Tech. Sgt. Chard Wooldridge, an avionics technician.
“For example, instead of taking off the entire nose assembly, it’s just a compartment,” Wooldridge said.
Plus, the computer catches problems the human eye might miss, Wooldridge said.
The jet’s weapons are also easier to maintain than those on legacy platforms, said Master Sgt. Jason Buffell, the weapons section lead. The F-35’s weapons delivery is “pneumatic,” which means it fires projectiles by means of air pressure, instead of explosive. This saves man hours because the team doesn’t have to spend time cleaning the weapons banks every day, Buffell said.
LMAO, F-35 needs special hangars with controlled climate so its stealth paint doesn’t peel. It needs to be repainted every few sorties. It has a VTOL engine behind the pilot that obscures the view making the pilot rely on camers. Cameras can glitch, and thanks to networking glitch on one F-35 can blind pilots in the rest of the squad. VTOL takes so much fuel that it needs midair refuelling right after it takes off. The whole thing is an incredibly expensive mess that will never work in real combat against a peer competitor. Love how you just guzzle propaganda from the arms industry there.
Once again flawed from the start.
LMAO, F-35 needs special hangars with controlled climate so its stealth paint doesn’t peel. It needs to be repainted every few sorties. It has a VTOL engine behind the pilot that obscures the view making the pilot rely on camers. Cameras can glitch, and thanks to networking glitch on one F-35 can blind pilots in the rest of the squad. VTOL takes so much fuel that it needs midair refuelling right after it takes off. The whole thing is an incredibly expensive mess that will never work in real combat against a peer competitor. Love how you just guzzle propaganda from the arms industry there.