Joint
Strike Fighter
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In 2002 in
a surprise decision the then Defence Minister announced that the
planned
AIR 6000 flyoff to choose Australia's future fighter aircraft was to be
effectively stopped, with the developmental Joint Strike Fighter
declared to be the preferred aircraft type.
The Joint Strike Fighter shows every prospect of being exceptionally
well suited to its primary design roles of battlefield strike and close
air support of ground troops, but it is not designed to perform air
superiority roles, unlike the larger F-22A, and is not well adapted
to
performing the long range strike role now filled by the F-111. There
has
been considerable adverse press associated with JSF cost overruns and
project delays.
This website will post a selection of relevant articles, submissions
and papers.
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| JSF Articles |
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Air
Power
Australia - March
2007 - Lockheed-Martin
F-35 Lightning II - Assessing
the Joint Strike Fighter |
| HeadsUp
Newsletter - Issue 318 - HEADSUP
SPECIAL - Is the JSF
really
good enough? analysing the ASPI paper |
| HeadsUp
Newsletter - Issue 322 - HEADSUP
SPECIAL - F/A-22As, JSFs
and 21st
Century air combat |
Australian
Financial Review - 12
February
2004 - An air force
worth fighting for
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| Australian
Financial Review - 1
July 2004 - Turbulence
hits choice of Joint Strike Fighter |
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Australian
Aviation -
April/May 2002 - Lockheed-Martin
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter -
Part 1 - A Cold War
Anachronism? / Part 2 - Sizing up the Joint Strike Fighter |
Australian
Aviation -
August 2002 - Hedging the Bet- JSF for
the RAAF?
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Defence
Today - September 2002
- The Joint Strike Fighter Decision
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| Australian
Aviation -
April 2004 - Is the Joint Strike
Fighter Right for Australia? Pt.1 |
| Australian
Aviation
- May 2004 - Is the Joint Strike
Fighter Right for Australia? Pt.2 |
| Australian
Aviation
- November 2004 - JSF =
Thunderchief II? (PDF)
- ThunderChief.org |
| Goon
P.A. - ADA Defender - Winter
2005
- Affordability
and the new air combat capability |
| Defence
Today - September 2005
- Fighter
Programs Face Uncertain Future |
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Regional Capability Analyses
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Air
Power
Australia - January
2007 - Sukhoi
Flankers - The Shifting
Balance
of Regional Air Power |
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Air
Power
Australia - January
2007 - Sukhoi
Su-34
Fullback |
| Air
Power
Australia - December 2006 - Almaz
S-300PT/PS/PMU-1/2, S-400 Triumf, S-400M Samoderzhets |
| Air
Power
Australia -
December 2006 - Antey
S-300V
and
S-300VM |
Air
Power
Australia - January
2007 - Regional
Precision Guided
Munitions
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| The
Parliamentary Debate [Click for more ...] |
| Related
Links [Click for more ...] |
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The
Joint Strike Fighter best compares in its roles and missions, sizing
and relative capabilities to the Republic F-105D Thunderchief, the
workhorse of the US bombing effort during the Vietnam conflict. What is
remarkable is the extent to which a similar roles/missions requirement,
defined almost four decades later, produced a combat aircraft of nearly
identical size and weight. Like the F-105, the JSF is not
designed
to be a top end air superiority fighter, but is designed with a robust
self defence capability.
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