Eyyyy you started doing it! Thanks!

@@therocinante3443 By popular demand. 😎

Saves me time! Lol You guys are really great.

wait what, he flies an A4 now? A4 Skyhawk??

@@Dan20q Yes, he flies for Draken International. www.drakenintl.com/catalog/aircraft-inventory/douglas-a-4-skyhawk-highly-capable-aircraft

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F22 at an air show was mind boggling. It can seemingly rotate around itself in midair and seems to hang or float at impossibly slow speeds while maneuvering.

I'm pretty sure Stretch will have a hand (...mouth?) in a future Eagle episode.

Looking forward to a follow-on with F-15C, as well as an episode on Drakken.

Thanks! My analogies are usually awful, that one seemed to work. 😜

Everyone's entitled to their opinion; can't win them all. Thanks!

Russians

Jell-O, we have a situation! Our satellites have spotted a yacht-load of SJWs on their way into port to protest at the airbase. You are cleared hot on that target. I say again, cleared hot. Mine the harbor with CAPTORs, and engage with Harpoons!!! ;)

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You never know. Stay tuned!

I'm actually curious about your carrier A-4s. I heard they got upgraded to carry out BVR combat as well as precision munition delivery just before the sole Brazilian carrier was retired. Is your navy keeping those jets or are they turned over to the air force?

Thanks for the story, Kevin. People can love flying even if they don't do it.

@@FighterPilotPodcast I hear you guys talking and it reminded me how much fun I used to have just talking air planes.

Jell-O, one more thing man. Thanks for what you're doing for all these young folks out there striving to get there. And for all the fans of military aviation. You're doing an outstanding job. Love listening to your stuff. -Harbs

@@dutchholland6928 thanks very much, Harbs. Well said!

Thanks!

Ironhide: " It's Starscream!"

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F22 capable cas platform LMAO. I don't think so dude, that'd be the A-10

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Namaste!

@@FighterPilotPodcast Hello

Hi Surya. What is your favorite fighter of all time?

@@Chironex_Fleckeri F-14 Tomcat

@@suryanarayansingh1219 India are pro Russki

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what part does he talk about alr-94?

@@flyingcactus1953 They don't.

Too bad they only built ~175!

@@FighterPilotPodcast Just too expensive to have more considering F/A-18s are still very capable.

@@jasonsong86 does not apply: F-22 is Air Force, F/A-18 is Navy

@@FighterPilotPodcast Oops, I am so embarrassed since I have been listening to your podcasts. I guess it's still a cost thing after all. F-16's are still great for what it can do but maybe they realized having a twin engine F-22 didn't make too much sense so they went on and designed the F-35 for both the Air Force and Navy.

@@jasonsong86 and the Marine Corps. And many other countries

Stretch and Chip are good people.

He remains a friend of the show 👍

The Combat-coded Block 30s are significantly different aircraft under the hood, with expanded A2G/SAR capes, better central computer banks, newer RAM, JDAM and SDB capable, better data link interoperability, etc.

Thanks, I'm not huge into all that so at least I was close!

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We addressed that after the interview.

I talked with a Raptor driver who had intercepted a Syrian AF MiG-21. They never saw him. He set up on him and called him over guard, told him to change his heading and go away. The presence of F-22s & F-35s changes things to where air hostilities are reduced because we hold all the cards, whereas the threats have no indicators that we're within weapon parameters of them.

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Had not considered that specific idea. Do plan on eventually having an officer recruiter from each branch come on to describe what their service offers.

The hosts will know this better, but from what I heard from other interviews, after jet training pilots are trained depending on their grades. The higher up one is, the more choice in aircraft they have.

I'll have to listen again, daffidavit, I don't remember exactly what we discussed but am glad we hit the mark!

Good points. I imagine there are some at LM who didn't care for the Raptor being destroyed and others who were simply happy to get some press.

To the Raptor's credit, they managed to give Iron Man/Tony a hard time and the F-22 being downed was due to an accident and not any ill-intent on Iron Man's part. ...How armor that thin managed to shrug off 20mm rounds is... well... movie magic, I guess.

I think they specifically glossed over that aspect for operational reasons. But I agree with you it would be neat to see a cockpit view of a F-22 eating gen 4 jets for lunch.

It's better in every way against all comers in one way or another: The Bug obviously has the energy maintenance deficiency--it's a fairly heavy airplane for what it is and you get a lot of induced drag from the wing design at speed--but the Raptor is better against it in the vertical and in the horizontal. I'd wager that they're both close once you get them slow thanks to the Bug's elastic AOA limiter and design-focus on a slow radius fight, but the Raptor probably has somewhat of an edge, though. That big flat fuselage will work as one big lifting body as slow speeds and will probably give you a decent amount of control in pitch, not mentioning the thrust vectoring. The Eagle isn't as good in the horizontal and isn't quite as good as the F-22 in the vertical or at maintaining energy since it's a little heavier and the F-110s don't put out as much power. It's probably about the closest in speed and climb rate, but it'll have a much lower pitch rate. The Viper isn't as good in the vertical, but probably is about as close as any of the three will get in maintaining energy and in the horizontal, same for acceleration thanks to how slick the airplane is, but it doesn't have the low-speed handling qualities at all thanks to the 29 degree hard AOA limit the Viper has for aircraft stability reasons. Not mentioning that at high-AOA the thing bleeds speed like mad to induced drag and just doesn't have the raw thrust out of it's single F-110 to keep it up. G-wise, the Raptor, the Viper, and the Eagle are all 9G airframes--the Eagle may be artificially limited for airframe life, I'm not sure though--while the Hornet is a 7.5G jet in most applications unless the pilot overrides the limiter to get it to it's hard 9G limit. That 7.5G limit on the Hornet really hurts your turn rate when fast because you do pile on the pretty quickly when in a fast fight, you end up pulling and pulling and the jet won't give you anything beyond it unless you tell it to tattletale on you to the maintenance guys because you went past the 7.5G soft limit. High-off-boresight missiles like the AIM-9X really are what evens the score between all of the 4th gen jets you mentioned.

@@Combatant5 F-15 doesn't have GE F110s, unless we're talking South Korean F-15K. F-22A thrust/weight, TV, climb rate, and super maneuverability exceed performance envelopes of all the teen fighters considerably, not that any of these metrics really matter.

@@LRRPFco52 if you circle back and detail read my post, you'll note I didn't specify a model of F-110 on the part discussing the F-15... As for the rest of what you have to say, I'd be willing to guess the performance is a lot closer than what you're thinking it is. The Raptor is a very good airplane, but it's not a slow-speed fighter, and the whole supermaneuverability thing is an airshow trick, and the same is true to a point with thrust vectoring. It helps, but it doesn't change the aerodynamics of the airplane. That big, flat fuselage and large double-delta wing make a whole lot of drag for the lots of lift it produces at slow speeds and high AOA because past a certain point it just becomes one big air dam. Further, if you again go back and detail read my post, I said the F-15 was *closest* in performance in the vertical and in speed. The F-22 definitely surpasses the Eagle, but it's going to be what gets you closest. Ultimately, though, it's entirely possible to beat the F-22 in the visual arena if you play to your strengths, and there are more than a few videos here on KZfaq showing it. You just have to get there--problem number 1 since you can't find the thing--and get lucky.

@@Combatant5 The only videos of F-22s defensive are from defensive perch set-ups, which are common for BFM. In every other set up, they normally dominate, unless going up against FWS instructors. There are senior FWS instructors who don't make a lot of mistakes that are just going to win no matter what you bring to the fight. Where a senior FWS instructor or high time pilot is at a complete disadvantage is in a real fight against the Raptor, starting from BVR. Re: F-15 propulsion, they are either Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-220s or -229s, not the GE F110 (with the rare exception I mentioned).

Nope. But we do have an A-4 episode coming up.

Dude, stop.

That would be something.

Those are LGTRs, or laser-guided training rounds. www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/enhanced-laser-guided-training-round.html

Would have made it an entirely different aircraft.

@Joe150 ish I'm reasonably confident that the F-35C\B will prove to be a very capable, highly survivable platform.. Just like the Hornet series. Sure.. We'd all like to see the U.S Navy acquire an aircraft dedicated to "air superiority". But that would obviously lead to compromises as well. Not to mention the gaggle of online"experts", disgruntled politicians and media that would gladly hate on such a project for being unnecessary and or too expensive. You know.. The same treatment the F-35 receives.

Yep, that's why I asked. 👍

The Fighter Pilot Podcast Hey Jello, i didn’t hear anyone talk about TGP capability for the F22. Is there such a thing? Thanks in advance.

@@Vardeth805 Let's start with what 'TGP' means...?

The Fighter Pilot Podcast targeting pod or any other optical sensor capability.

@@Vardeth805 Not sure, didn't ask too much about sensors--figured he wouldn't tell me much.

True. Going to mention that on the next episode. Chip and I were simply unfamiliar...

I've never heard of it before. It looks like a F/A-18c but with a single vert stab. Pretty cool looking I'd like to learn about it.

Sounds right, but before my time.

Apparently they’re not all here.

@@FighterPilotPodcast sorry. Not trying to be flippant or condescending. I understand maintenance, worked in V-2 on Ike and ended up managing QA for Cats.. but it drives me nuts to read we are unable to achieve a readiness rating of 80%. If I ran my company at anything less than 99% I’d go broke. Maybe the News articles are just headlining for readers. But I’m not sure we could win any kind of limited conflict with a peer level adversary much less a war where we try to defend Taiwan, Japan, Australia, etc… or Croatia, Poland etc with 1/2 of our force ready to fight. www.defensenews.com/air/2020/05/07/the-air-force-bails-on-mattis-era-fighter-jet-readiness-goal/

Fight's on!

Wikipedia seems to corroborate: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YF-23

I don't believe he flew the F-35.

@@FighterPilotPodcast thanks for the answer, but I referred about him in the F-22 supporting the F-35, like in red flag. Just to know his opinion abot the F-35 and if he thinks it will be as effective as the F-22 for day one.

@@MarioSeoane Oh, gotcha. Not sure, will have to ask him...

@@FighterPilotPodcast thanks

@@FighterPilotPodcast BTW, just another question. I'm a big fan of the Rhino, what do you think about the claim from Boeing that is as effective as the F-35 for day one? Thank you again

Know where to find him?

His Aircrew Interview on YT was one of the most eye-opening peeks into initial capes on the Raptor. The F-22 tactics development discussion made the MiG-29 kill seem boring in comparison.

Totally agree with LRRPFco52 about “Dozer.” BUT, “Stretch” is awesome too! “You could probably lay their EM diagrams on top of the other and...... “ Gonna miss Sunshine.