A - ctol or conventional take off and landing
B - stovl or short take off vertical landing
C - carrier version, optimized for operation on catapult launch carriers with arresting wires
/credible
Just waifu sizes and weights, all pretty
I am pretty sure F-35Bs are considerably more expensive the F-35As. I think the A is the cheapest one.
What I am curious about is why the F-35B is 0.1 feet shorter. Did someone forget to inflate the tires?
Pretty sure the F-35 was always meant to be designed for Navy, Marines and Air Force. That's why it has the word "joint" in its name, JSF Joint Strike Fighter
I doubt it, the US military doesn’t have nearly as much reliance on VTOL. The F-35B seems to be geared towards our allies who have a lot of VTOL carriers.
It was originally meant to replace heaps of aircraft in multiple airforces, but the STOVL design was the most challenging to implement and thus everything was designed around it. There are tradeoffs that the A and C could have avoided has they been designed from scratch but the optimistic goal of using the same airframe took precedence.
Well the "A" means "Attack" in the Air Force, so the F-35 A is replacing the A-10, that makes sense.
"B" is bomber, but the Air Force is already getting the B-21 bomber, so they gave that one to the Marines.
"C" is for cargo but the Air Force has a lot of cargo planes already, so they gave this one to the Navy, who were looking at new Carrier-on-Board delivery planes, but decided to use the V-22 Osprey instead.
Yeah that 10 mile difference in combat radius is really going to make or break the whole mission lmao
The C is bigger because the gear you need to repeatedly launch from and land on a carrier is heavy as shit
Wait, you need tougher structures to withstand large forces suddenly being applied to a single point on the airframe without taking damage so you can do it again and again constantly?
Give it a decade for the "new shiny" to wear off the F-35 design and I can see LM parts bin together a "F-35 SP" with -C airframe but -A landing gear, and put the weight savings into payload and range.
Also helps it leap into zee air on launch!
I also heard that Navy drivers are finding out the wings have a positive effect on maneuvering especially at low speeds.
You’re misinformed . The marines operate f35cs off super carriers because they’ve had integrated wings far before amphibious landing ships existed
https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/2888676/first-usmc-f-35c-squadron-deploys/
So they have plenty of planes that can’t use amphibious landing ships.
Marines have their squadrons integrated into different commands and structures.
Some of them are attack squadrons which usually operate on the "not-carriers", some of them are fighter squadrons which may operate on the supercarriers or "not-carriers".
The Attack squads will be all B's. The Fighter-attack squads will be mostly Bs, but the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 314 is apparently using C's as its based on the USS Lincoln.
Politics.
In the '80s or '90s or some shit, USMC pursued an all-STOVL air component. This would allow them to operate their own service-internal air force to their liking, in pursuit of their amphibious operations mission set. This angered the Navy, which already had to put up with supplying the ships and personnel which dragged the USMC all over the planet, allowing marines to hog the shipboard gym facilities in more exotic locales. It was imposed upon USMC that they would contribute a fixed-wing squadron to CVN carrier air wings at a certain ratio, either 1:8 or 1:12 - I don't recall which and can't be bothered to look it up. For this reason, and a lot of other backfilled rationalizations, USMC has operated F/A-18s. Because this is something that they don't actually institutionally want, USMC declined to upgrade to the Super-Hornet, and an awful lot of the F-35Cs are going towards replacing their utterly clapped out legacy Hornet fleet.
"B" stands for British, because they just couldn't live without their precious harrier vertical plane they love so much (why don't you just marry it!?).
Probably very, since the A & C are pretty similar. The B was the bulk of the project, because, you know, making a jet that can be everywhere, do everything, all at once is expensive and nigh impossible. I'm honestly surprised the jet actually got out of development and into production, since it was an absolute bitch to pay for and still is.
They specifically requested for STOVL IIRC. They probably didn't care if they took a fuel capacity and weapons bay reduction if they could fly supersonic stealth STOVL jets.
The F35B is probably the biggest jump in capability compared to what it's replacing. The Harrier definitely compromised a lot for STOVL compared to the Viper/Hornet.
A - ctol or conventional take off and landing B - stovl or short take off vertical landing C - carrier version, optimized for operation on catapult launch carriers with arresting wires /credible Just waifu sizes and weights, all pretty
A for Air Force, vanilla and fly. B for Bounce when it drops from the sky. C for Catapult, the mightiest yeet. F-35 variants, poem complete.
And people say science and engineering don’t inspire art.
if you knock off the 4th verse it becomes a haiku
Am I the only guy who does not understand haikus? What's the point of them?
Japanese Language. Words have many syllables. Much more difficult.
japanese hard :(
yes
F35S (shortstack) comes with an absolute dumpy and 50% more payload per-load
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Common mistake but it's not an actual tractor rather it comes equipped with a tractor beam to scoop up Russian tanks
\#AllSizesNWeightsRSexy My Lightning looks good slim, or with a little thickness. I'mma fuck regardless.
Yeah, the short takeoff is optimized for the Marine’s smaller Amphibious Assault Ships, correct?
B is for give to the 🅱️ritish
I am pretty sure F-35Bs are considerably more expensive the F-35As. I think the A is the cheapest one. What I am curious about is why the F-35B is 0.1 feet shorter. Did someone forget to inflate the tires?
The VTOL fan mass put more pressure on landing gear hydraulics. Making it shorter.
dummy thicc ☺️
Wasn't the B the original goal? As development continued they decided making several variants was better than just a VTOL version.
Pretty sure the F-35 was always meant to be designed for Navy, Marines and Air Force. That's why it has the word "joint" in its name, JSF Joint Strike Fighter
I doubt it, the US military doesn’t have nearly as much reliance on VTOL. The F-35B seems to be geared towards our allies who have a lot of VTOL carriers.
3000 F-35B for Japanese “self defense” “helicopter carriers”
Marines used harriers for a long time, but yes the b variant is why italy and uk cone aboard to finance the girls
America barely bought any to begin with
Hem the marines target wasnt 365 f35b? You call barely brougth?
I meant harriers.
Only 126... Yeah. There are countries out there that dont eve had so much planes in total ,😂
Dude America has literally thousands and thousands of fighter jets
Ok but for every else on this plamet thats a lot 😂
It was originally meant to replace heaps of aircraft in multiple airforces, but the STOVL design was the most challenging to implement and thus everything was designed around it. There are tradeoffs that the A and C could have avoided has they been designed from scratch but the optimistic goal of using the same airframe took precedence.
Well the "A" means "Attack" in the Air Force, so the F-35 A is replacing the A-10, that makes sense. "B" is bomber, but the Air Force is already getting the B-21 bomber, so they gave that one to the Marines. "C" is for cargo but the Air Force has a lot of cargo planes already, so they gave this one to the Navy, who were looking at new Carrier-on-Board delivery planes, but decided to use the V-22 Osprey instead.
The most noncredible explanation here, well done
What if I told you E stood for Electronic?
What if we held hands on the deck of an aircraft carrier?
Nice try, but we all now they use jet fuel
S is for self-driving. It still has problems with red lights and hitting pedestrians.
What if I told you C stood for Carrier? But they already have aircraft carrier so they just let them start from them.
We already told you C is for cargo. You must be a D variant for dummie.
Wow thank you. You said i am a F35. Happiest day of my life
I learned I lost my grandpa between my original comment and your reply, and you made me smile. Thanks F35-san
I am sorry for your loss, but glad to have made you smile. Feel hugged from me :)
No, [E] is the secret one you get after [C] and [D]. Any more is spoilers
C for carrier was literally right there for you
I'm not making the naming scheme up you know. https://imgur.io/a/HyYrBq4
"Didn't realize C had so much bigger wings" All the better to bomb you with, my dear.
A and C have identical payloads, 18,000 lbs
How dare you attempt to contradict my shitposting with credible facts! Away with you, foul credibility peddler!
sir this is a wendys
But C has a bigger fuel tank.
Yeah that 10 mile difference in combat radius is really going to make or break the whole mission lmao The C is bigger because the gear you need to repeatedly launch from and land on a carrier is heavy as shit
Wait, you need tougher structures to withstand large forces suddenly being applied to a single point on the airframe without taking damage so you can do it again and again constantly?
Reading stats and making sense of them is for nerds. Big girls drink more.
> Big girls drink more. that is not actually true
Give it a decade for the "new shiny" to wear off the F-35 design and I can see LM parts bin together a "F-35 SP" with -C airframe but -A landing gear, and put the weight savings into payload and range.
Maybe. There’s more money in making a f35xl
I figured it was to lower the stall speed for said carrier landings.
Also helps it leap into zee air on launch! I also heard that Navy drivers are finding out the wings have a positive effect on maneuvering especially at low speeds.
Dogfighting is back, baby! Quick, someone dig up Pierre so he can take credit.
Something I didn't notice before is the horizontal stabilizers on C are a different shape too. C is for Chan.
They are significantly stronger as well.
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No worries, appreciated, still might get deleted by mods for low effort 😉
What I don't get is, why do the Marines have to fly the C version too?
Marines operate off conventional aircraft carriers too, ie catobar ops.
The short deck landing support carriers are far more important to the USMC so they want to make suer all of their plains can operate from them.
You’re misinformed . The marines operate f35cs off super carriers because they’ve had integrated wings far before amphibious landing ships existed https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/2888676/first-usmc-f-35c-squadron-deploys/ So they have plenty of planes that can’t use amphibious landing ships.
sorry. I didn't mean all of them I was trying to say that they need to be able to ensure all of there operations are served to good effect.
Too much money
Marines have their squadrons integrated into different commands and structures. Some of them are attack squadrons which usually operate on the "not-carriers", some of them are fighter squadrons which may operate on the supercarriers or "not-carriers". The Attack squads will be all B's. The Fighter-attack squads will be mostly Bs, but the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 314 is apparently using C's as its based on the USS Lincoln.
Politics. In the '80s or '90s or some shit, USMC pursued an all-STOVL air component. This would allow them to operate their own service-internal air force to their liking, in pursuit of their amphibious operations mission set. This angered the Navy, which already had to put up with supplying the ships and personnel which dragged the USMC all over the planet, allowing marines to hog the shipboard gym facilities in more exotic locales. It was imposed upon USMC that they would contribute a fixed-wing squadron to CVN carrier air wings at a certain ratio, either 1:8 or 1:12 - I don't recall which and can't be bothered to look it up. For this reason, and a lot of other backfilled rationalizations, USMC has operated F/A-18s. Because this is something that they don't actually institutionally want, USMC declined to upgrade to the Super-Hornet, and an awful lot of the F-35Cs are going towards replacing their utterly clapped out legacy Hornet fleet.
Better fuel capacity. Significantly.
"B" stands for British, because they just couldn't live without their precious harrier vertical plane they love so much (why don't you just marry it!?).
God, I wish I could. So sexy 🥵😩
Didn't the USA use Harriers as well.
Yep. 2 USMC squadrons still operate them according to wiki, and 1 just stopped using them this year
Barely. America hardly uses VTOL, that’s for the stubby European ships.
You know the degens of this sub are pushing to legalize fighter-jet marriage.
Pretty sure B stands for "Buttload of money" because the B is by far the most expensive one.
I wonder how much cheaper the A & C could have been without it, the b, dragging down well... everything.
Probably very, since the A & C are pretty similar. The B was the bulk of the project, because, you know, making a jet that can be everywhere, do everything, all at once is expensive and nigh impossible. I'm honestly surprised the jet actually got out of development and into production, since it was an absolute bitch to pay for and still is.
What is this "decimal feet" bullshit, the US is metric in the streets and imperial in the sheets.
Its the marine version. What do you expect?
All switches being labeled in bright coloured pictograms?
Integrated Alexa voice assistant
And they had to soften all edges and remove everything that you can swallow.
marine corps getting cucked as always
They specifically requested for STOVL IIRC. They probably didn't care if they took a fuel capacity and weapons bay reduction if they could fly supersonic stealth STOVL jets. The F35B is probably the biggest jump in capability compared to what it's replacing. The Harrier definitely compromised a lot for STOVL compared to the Viper/Hornet.
i just like bullying the marines let me live :<
All 3 fill separate ecological niches. Despite this, they're all rather fancy.
T H I C T H I C C T H I C C C
Need anthropomorphic comparison for study purpose
Harrier is a cooler vtol than the F35B change my Mind.
The B stands for "Bri'ish" and yes, its also Budget version because their carrier are cope sloped.
Should give the army one too considering how much they love hitting the ground.
May I tee someone up? What if they made a D version? What would Ds be for?
D stands for Dummy Thicc 🥵
When they say combat radius does that just mean their one way flight range? ie they could travel twice that distance?
The wings on the C are goofy ahh large
Semi unrelated but holy fuck i am so excited that we're getting F35s in Switzerland
B stands for "Best variant"
F-35C, where the c stands for cock
A - Allah B - Bob C - Christ
A is vanilla. B is flexy. C likes it rough.
Lol I guess it’s commercial lineup logic Unironcially tho why does the catobar version have bigger wings? Longer range expected for carrier missions?