美军资深飞行员认为F-35大规模装备后会严重影响美空军的 ...

一位美军资深飞行员今日对一家丹麦媒体表示：“在单个任务中将F-35与空军现有的任何机种做比较都是不适合的。”
采访在卢克空军基地进行，一位相继驾驶过F-16和F-35的约翰威尔逊少校告诉记者：“A-10攻击机在近距离对地支援任务（CAS）中比F-35更加高效，因为A-10的设计比F-35更加适于对地攻击。而在对空任务中F-22总是比F-35表现的更加出色，除此以外的任务F-35总体表现不错。
总体来说为单一任务设计的飞机总是在其单项任务中比多用途飞机占有较大优势。
所以问题随之产生，当你试图用一种飞机去取代所有这些飞机时，不但其费效比不突出，而且从宏观上来说，空军的整个打击效能甚至可能有所下降。
现在美国在海外的对地打击任务中，绝大部分都由多功能战斗机如F-15E或F-16去完成，A-10所占比例不大。威尔逊承认，总的来说F-35是贵的，但比起同时保有和维护几种机型，它还是合算的。

It’s wrong to compare the F-35 with any other asset that was designed to perform a specific mission: this is, in simple words, what a US F-35 pilot said in an interview he gave to the Danish website Krigeren.

Interviewed at Luke Air Force Base, by Christian Sundsdal, Maj. John Wilson, an F-35 pilot with an F-16 background explained that an A-10 Thunderbolt II will always be better at close air support (CAS) than the F-35 because it was designed to perform that kind of mission.

Similarly, an F-22 will always be better than the JSF in air-to-air combat, because it was designed for that role. But the F-35 is better in all the other missions.

To be sure, aircraft designed for a specific role are going to be more effective in that one role than other multi-purpose platforms.

The problem in this case is that the F-35 is going to replace these assets, even though many believe this is not cost-effective and could even diminish capabilities during CAS missions.

Furthermore, according to Wilson, once all the limitations are removed and the plane can carry weapons, the F-35 will be as capable as the F-16 in the CAS role.

According to Wilson, the majority of CAS missions that have been flown in Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere, were flown by Predators, F-15E Strike Eagles, F-16s and F-18s.
“The A-10s make up a very small percentage [and the fact that] every JTAC or guy on the ground that has been saved, has been saved by an A-10, that’s just not true” Wilson says.

“If the guys on the ground are concerned about that … I’d say they shouldn’t be. They should only be concerned that the pilots of whatever aircraft it is, is properly trained and doing his job, dropping the right bomb, on the right target, at the right time.”

Wilson admits the aircraft is expensive but he says that maintaining several different types in service is even more costly.

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-10-always-better-than-f-35-for-close-air-support-2015-4


一位美军资深飞行员今日对一家丹麦媒体表示：“在单个任务中将F-35与空军现有的任何机种做比较都是不适合的。”
采访在卢克空军基地进行，一位相继驾驶过F-16和F-35的约翰威尔逊少校告诉记者：“A-10攻击机在近距离对地支援任务（CAS）中比F-35更加高效，因为A-10的设计比F-35更加适于对地攻击。而在对空任务中F-22总是比F-35表现的更加出色，除此以外的任务F-35总体表现不错。
总体来说为单一任务设计的飞机总是在其单项任务中比多用途飞机占有较大优势。
所以问题随之产生，当你试图用一种飞机去取代所有这些飞机时，不但其费效比不突出，而且从宏观上来说，空军的整个打击效能甚至可能有所下降。
现在美国在海外的对地打击任务中，绝大部分都由多功能战斗机如F-15E或F-16去完成，A-10所占比例不大。威尔逊承认，总的来说F-35是贵的，但比起同时保有和维护几种机型，它还是合算的。

It’s wrong to compare the F-35 with any other asset that was designed to perform a specific mission: this is, in simple words, what a US F-35 pilot said in an interview he gave to the Danish website Krigeren.

Interviewed at Luke Air Force Base, by Christian Sundsdal, Maj. John Wilson, an F-35 pilot with an F-16 background explained that an A-10 Thunderbolt II will always be better at close air support (CAS) than the F-35 because it was designed to perform that kind of mission.

Similarly, an F-22 will always be better than the JSF in air-to-air combat, because it was designed for that role. But the F-35 is better in all the other missions.

To be sure, aircraft designed for a specific role are going to be more effective in that one role than other multi-purpose platforms.

The problem in this case is that the F-35 is going to replace these assets, even though many believe this is not cost-effective and could even diminish capabilities during CAS missions.

Furthermore, according to Wilson, once all the limitations are removed and the plane can carry weapons, the F-35 will be as capable as the F-16 in the CAS role.

According to Wilson, the majority of CAS missions that have been flown in Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere, were flown by Predators, F-15E Strike Eagles, F-16s and F-18s.
“The A-10s make up a very small percentage [and the fact that] every JTAC or guy on the ground that has been saved, has been saved by an A-10, that’s just not true” Wilson says.

“If the guys on the ground are concerned about that … I’d say they shouldn’t be. They should only be concerned that the pilots of whatever aircraft it is, is properly trained and doing his job, dropping the right bomb, on the right target, at the right time.”

Wilson admits the aircraft is expensive but he says that maintaining several different types in service is even more costly.

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-10-always-better-than-f-35-for-close-air-support-2015-4