Good suggestion Hasard! I LOVE this idea 💪💪

@HasardLee just imagine the stories those Israeli vipers would have if they could talk. As a maintenance tech each and every aircraft had its own little quirks for us on the ground. Have you noticed that between the different airframes you have flown, any little quirks on let's say between the vipers you flew and the same with F-35?

No fair! You're current--I'd barf after two turns, 🤢 Thanks for coming on, Hasard. Good times.

Glad you like our product. Retired USAF on several fighter and stealth platforms, working on F-35 for the last 18 years.

Can't wait for that book - pre ordered already ❤

He wouldn't get selected to fly the f-22 because he wasn't an F-15 pilot so he had no choice but hope to be selected for F-35.

Not currently planned but you never know!

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Oh shet, the king of random projectile firing commenting on an advanced projectile podcast.

@toolmakerdave5287 Do you fly in DCS? Might help you scratch the military aviation itch.

Even Australia has them now. Great kit.

I flew private after becoming an aircraft C141 in USAF but never pursued flying due to a visual defect but still had bocoos fun. I got to meet a lot of pilots whose planes I fixed and traded war stories. I saw a SR71 up close a U2. I sat in the cockpit of a F15 all around 1982 to 84. I still watch these videos and relate to many of the interviewers. Never regret. Aviation is in our heart & gut.

Mechanic.

Seems you have to go to Dolby Hanche from Norway to get that and it's years old. Edit: They always say "it wasn't designed for that," which isn't true. It was designed to combine F-16 steady state turning with F-18 instantaneous turn when compared in a combat configuration. It's done that quite well and, when not loaded all the way with fuel vs. a slicked F-18C/D/404-402 or Block 50, it's a pretty mean opponent in a phone booth. What would be more accurate to say is, "that's the least important engineering criteria of this aircraft to achieve the mission."

@@corystansbury Dolby Hanche is one of the very few exceptions. Just compare it to the F-22 or Typhoon. Dogfighting is also the last resort for those aircraft but you will never hear their pilots say that, instead they rave about how powerful and agile those 2 aircraft are in BFM despite both not being designed as dogfighting aircraft primarily

The problem is that 1. It's small, doesn't carry a lot of fuel, and 2. The radar is liquid cooled, the small airframe presents little real estate for upper power levels in radar, 3. Avionics are liquid cooled, and it uses fuel to cool them. Less fuel, less cooling capacity. The F-35 can't BFM because it needs to be in the vicinity of a tanker for basically it's entire mission duration. There is no fuel for afterburner, or loiter or CAP missions. It's a Ferrari with a 6 gallon tank of fuel. I'm a former F-15C driver and there is a reason why the F-15X program is in scramble mode right now.

@@BasedF-15Pilot 1. Small and doesn’t carry a lot of fuel. Thats 18,000 lbs for the A model, 20,000 for the C model. 2. As per General Mike Hostage, due to the small amounts of F-22s available, he will need to have some F-35s perform air superiority in the 1st days of war. Thats where I want to hear the stories from. Those air superiority F-35s won’t be using their sensors at maximum power all the time, instead, they’ll rely on data linked information from other F-35s and will be able to use their fuel for AB more. There are some F-35 pilots that have said it performs very well in the BFM arena, however most F-35 pilots like Hazard and Chip Burke automatically dismiss the question into how the F-35 can avoid dogfights. Its as if they’re afraid of it when they’re in the F-35

These article excerpts show interesting insights from the F-35 in BFM: 1) “Remember, back the rumors were that the F-35 was a pig. The first time the opponents [F-16s] showed up [in the training area] they had wing tanks along with a bunch of missiles. I guess they figured that being in a dirty configuration wouldn't really matter and that they would still easily outmanoeuvre us. By the end of the week, though, they had dropped their wing tanks, transitioned to a single centerline fuel tank and were still doing everything they could not to get gunned by us. A week later they stripped the jets clean of all external stores, which made the BFM fights interesting, to say the least... On one of the sorties, my colleague, Maj Pascal 'Smiley' Smaal, decided he would fly BFM and still have enough fuel to go to the range afterwards and drop his weapon (GBU-12: Laser guided weapon). During the debrief, the adversary pilot told us he was confused as to why we went to the range after the fight. When 'Smiley' told him that he was carrying an inert GBU-12 the entire time and that he then dropped it afterwards during a test event, the silence on the other end of the line was golden.” - Lt Col Ian 'Gladys' Knight, CO of 323rd Test and Evaluation Squadron. (Out Of The Shadows: RNLAF experiences with the F-35A - Combat Aircraft Magazine May 2018). 2) “Thirty-one experienced pilots currently flying the F-35A were asked to rate the energy and maneuvering characteristics of their previous fourth-generation fighters in a combat configuration throughout the dogfighting maneuver envelope in a combat configuration[23] after jettisoning their external stores. They were then asked to rate the performance of the F-35A using the same scale, with fuel and internal munition loads associated with a combat loadout[24] under their current G and CLAW restrictions.[25] The F-35A compared well to the four other fighters (F-15C, F-15E, F-16C, and A-10) in most every regime. (For the total results and responses from the pilots of each respective fighter, see Chart 1.) Each pilot was then asked to select which fighter he would rather fly in combat if he were to face a clone flying the other jet in six different air-to-air situations. (See Chart 2.) If the pilot selected an F-15C in a short-range setup, for example, he felt he could outperform a pilot of equal abilities in the F-35A. Pilots selected the F-35A 100 percent of the time in beyond-visual-range situations and over 80 percent of dogfighting situations where energy and maneuverability are critical to success.” -“Operational Assessment of the F-35A Argues for Full Program Procurement and Concurrent Development Process”-Herit-ge or-.

High-performance aircraft are expensive. You absolutely want to do everything you can to ensure that the squishy bit on the inside isn't why you aren't getting the most for your money.

But that’s a good start.

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Thanks. Where do I rank on your list?

@@FighterPilotPodcast I follow you many years and enjoying your podcasts, it started somewhere, where you interviewed a LSO, that's a time ago, so you are also on the top of my list, Ward Carol is also there and many more. Each of you brings different topics, and I like that. Also Jocko Willink is on my list. Because I was 3 years in our military as an 5th battalion liberation under officer, a reconnaissance unit, best time of my life.

Terrific!

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Too kind, Mike. 😎

You’re welcome, kind of you to say! 🤩

"the" guy or "a" guy? I love my family too!

@@FighterPilotPodcast 😉 YES‼️ you guys love your family and send you are the BEST of The BEST‼️ • Got to follow along Hazard as his first little one was born. And. - the funniest video he ever did was when he was stalking around in the kitchen one early morning before going off to work - with a bug-a-salt rifle. Followed Hazad a long time. Followed YOU a long time. RESPECT. 🫡

@@PAS_2020 🙏

The F35 is the 5th Generation equivalent to the F14 for fourth generation. It's an expensive organ which pushes the envelope of modern air combat capabilities well beyond that of our near peer adversaries. I used to hate the F35, but after sitting down and looking at the capabilities objectively, I'm genuinely impressed they've accomplished that goal with the aircraft they accomplished it with.

Will do! And it’s SEAD

Got it! Thanks!

What is a F-22 Raptor pilot? Samurai?

@@anthonyfuqua6988 Good one! 🥷

Thanks, and welcome!

Pete, I never saw an ashtray in my Phantom. Think he was pulling your chain. Great interview though, huh?

Salacious topics always sell.

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@@FighterPilotPodcast I spent time with the 99th bombwing heavy 66-70 Guam, Kadina, Utapao as a crew Chief. Each generation of fighter from F4’s till now just like performance race cars for me. Thanks again. I am pleased to have find your and Hasard’s podcasts. 👍

Good on them, takes the whole team.

It’s sensors allow it to classify aircraft type at distance

I don’t typically ask my guests about their finances.

I don’t play.

You should! I would watch that!!

​@@FighterPilotPodcastif you did I wouldn't mind going up against you or hasard. I would probably eat a fox 2 but knowing it was from a fighter weapons school grad I know I would learn something. Keep it up sir, always something educational on your podcast. Question though as a Hornet pilot did you ever train with the tomcat in ACM/BFM and would you do to defeat the tomcat?

Yuck

The F/A-18 😜

Actually carrying an actual combat load, the F-35 can outmaneuver both the F-16 and the F-18.

Neither one of us flew the F-14.

@@FighterPilotPodcast sorry, wrong video, I was watching the one that you interviewed the F-14 pilot

@@CarlosMoreno-dq3kg ah.

Possibly. We have yet to feature the EA-18 Growler.

@@FighterPilotPodcast Pail is not regarded highly in the community, I'd recommend someone else

When you visit his channel.

@@FighterPilotPodcast Holly shishkabab ! He replied!!!!!!!!!

@@muhammadishmamabdullah5347 sure, why wouldn’t I?

@@FighterPilotPodcast It means a lot to me ! I am a fan from Bangladesh 🇧🇩. I watch Airliners, Bangladesh Air Force Mi-17, F-7s and Fulcrums fly everyday as I live just beside the Shahjalal Airport but sadly I can never fly them because of my health and financial conditions. Watching Your podcast really feels like I fly fighters with you.

@@muhammadishmamabdullah5347 that’s why we’re here, glad you enjoy it!

Actually, what DOES "enilelated" mean?

@@FighterPilotPodcast 🤣😂🤣 I got the number to that trucking school.. Thank you for allowing me to correct myself 🍻

@@Highbread ah, very good--that was reminiscent of my kind of spelling. Thank God for autocorrect (if you're close enough)!

@@FighterPilotPodcast For the record You are also a big time podcast star. Thanks for your service and thanks again for your channel

@@Highbread kind of you to say but I won't let my head get too big. 😜

Yeah, didn't work out too well from 2001 through 2022.

For this fiscal year, maybe.

Being stealth they are somewhat resistant by default.

Flight Control System and the processors are fiber-optic connected and electronics shielded. The US has been shielding critical electronics against EMP since we observed the phenomenon after the atmospheric nuke tests in the 1950s.

Maybe, but if a banana pie was androgynous, we would all end up MIA