USNI: Mabus: F-35 Will Be ‘Last Manned Strike Fighter’ the Navy, Marines ‘Will Ever Buy or Fly’
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) will be “almost certainly will be, the last manned strike fighter aircraft the Department of the Navy will ever buy or fly,” signaling key assumptions in the Navy’s aviation future as the service prepares to develop follow-ons to the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.
“Unmanned systems, particularly autonomous ones, have to be the new normal in ever-increasing areas,” Mabus said.
For example, as good as it is, and as much as we need it and look forward to having it in the fleet for many years, the F-35 should be, and almost certainly will be, the last manned strike fighter aircraft the Department of the Navy will ever buy or fly.”
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Navy's Next-Gen Fighter After F-35 May Be Unmanned -- Investors.com
SECNAV: F-35 will be Navy's last manned strike fighter -- Autoblog
The Navy sees its future in unmanned fighters -- Endgadget
End of Top Gun? Navy Sees Future Not in F-35s, But in Unmanned Aircraft -- Sputnik
The F-35 May Be the Last Manned Fighter Plane the U.S. Ever Flies -- Fiscal Times
4 comments:
What are they planning to do when their satellites are blown out of space?
Yeah Jon,
Not to mention: The development of more sophisticated electronic countermeasures. Like directed EMP weapons and the ever present hacking vulnerabilities. Also, what about taking out the operational bases with either these electronic countermeasure type weapons or more conventional munitions. I believe that even manned A/C with fly by wire and glass cockpit tech will become vulnerable to future electronic warfare; no matter how "hardened" they supposedly are. I predict the return of analog flight instrumentation and mechanical control systems in combat A/C. And, therefore the continuation of manned combat and commercial flight systems. Back to the Future!
The fly systems on the tomahawk doesn't need gps or satellite to travel to their destination im assuming a technology similar to that would be implemented.
Benjamin,
The tomahawk uses a combination of GPS, and an inertian guidance system with computerized route mapping and terrain following radar.
With just the IGSMS, it's accuracy is +/- 1500 feet, which is good enough for nuke work, (67% of the time),
With both systems, it's accuracy is +/- 15 feet, (67%) of the time.
Where the other 33% go, nobody knows. In the initial "Shock and Awe" strike on Baghdad, half a dozen tomahawks wound up hitting Turkey.
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