Same as the F-16. But they also came from the same LFW program.

It’s taken me a long time, but I have really come to love the F-18. It has matured well and has damn sure lived up to the expectations that were sort of dumped in its lap. The -18G has really excelled, and now I’m seeing that DOD is shutting down FIVE squadrons of Growlers soon. Unless the F-35 is making the Growlers redundant, that seems like a bad, BAD idea. Perhaps we can pass those planes along to one or two of our more closely allied nations. Id hate to see that capability just be set aside to rot. Also, having grown up just south of NAS Jax and Mayport (I’m actually in St. Augustine, Florida), I have been watching F-18s my entire life. I’ve seen the Blue Angels more times than I can count, but not since they moved into the newer Super Hornets. Can’t wait to see that next show!

@@FloridaManMatty small world . I grew up right just north of NAS Jax . Lived right off 17 .

@@FloridaManMatty Pretty sure F-35's have equivalent if not greater EW capabilities.

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Technically speaking, depending on how many enemies they’re fighting, they only need one.

No? Well, its an interesting development story. They had to develop special shock absorbing mounts for the cannon and the radar to protect the delicate equipment from the blast and recoil forces.

The A-10C has something cool like that for it’s gun. With a two stage trigger the first trigger pull stabilizes the plane perfectly then the second trigger stage fires the gun. The stabilization overrides the flight controls so if a pilot held down the trigger too long they’d theoretically crash into the ground even if they pulled back on the stick in time. Kind of an cool technology to stabilize such a big gun in mid air.

The F-18 SH is extremely obsolete.

And the F-35 is the special kid with a talent

The F22 seems to be the “quiet kid” (quite literally) that always seems to be a danger to students... if you know what I mean

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And the X-32 is the guy that everyone avoids just because he has a weird smile, even though the dude is actually a pretty decent guy.

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The sheer anticlimacticness of that move still makes me angry years later

@@blakelowrey9620 Well to go the other way would mean a A-6 dropping B-61's on Japanese cities......

Yupp ya know it is gonna be good when right at the very start you're lookin at full afterburner takeoff of a Tomcat

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Same here ! F18 and f16 are my fav ! f16 bcoz its wayyyy cheaper

A stealth naval fighter is a good idea, but the F35 is a horrid piece of machinery.

@@TisLasagnus The F-35 gets a lot of flak (no pun intended) for no reason IMHO. Sure its R&D costs skyrocketed to one trillion dollars, and it costs 120 million dollars a piece, only behind the F-22 (which costs a whopping 350 million dollars a piece). But it's nonetheless an incredibly capable fighter and an essential fighter for 21st century warfare. The problem is, it's over engineered. It relies too heavily on computers and software (which is both a good and a bad thing), it is frankensteined into three variants, each tailored to the USAF, US Navy and US Marine Corps. Lockheed Martin wanted to have a fighter that can do everything at once, in land and at sea, air-to-air and air-to-ground. They wanted it to be agile, maneuvreable, capable of electronic warfware, with full stealth capabilities, easy too fly, capable of carrying more armaments than standard, and a diverse array of them as well, all the while being relatively economic with only a single engine. Early designs even demanded supercruise capabilities, with one engine no less (!). Lockheed Martin tried to make a be-all-end-all aircraft for every type of mission and all missions, and to be sold internationally. Lockheed already had the F-22 as the ultimate fighter, but they were trying to aim even higher (again, no pun intended) and it seems that even one trillion dollars are not enough when it comes to bending the laws of physics.

Eli Malinsky Going to have to disagree with “supercruise” and “more than standard ordinance”. The Lightning II holds less AMRAAMS than a super hornet, which is approximately 6-8, depending on your objective, while the Lightning could carry 4, assuming they aren’t carrying sidewinders. And I’ll bring that up here in a bit. As we all know the B variant has VTOL features meaning it can land wherever and re-arm, and this could just be for the B variant as many features for the engines were substituted, and once more, an exact max-speed is classified. However, the Lightning can hardly reach Mach 1 even with afterburner. But then again, that could be only the B variants problem. Now stealth on a craft works because the radar can’t get any right angles, which is where fuselage ordinance comes in handy. I’ll make exceptions for the gun pod but a Air-to-Surface missile would completely ruin the objective, of a stealth fighter. While it is possible to load maybe 2 250 lb. bombs inside a Lightning, considering its payload size, that wouldn’t be enough to declare a sink. While many of the same craft would come very handy, that just tanks our tax dollars into this dreaded circle. Also you can’t have sidewinders on the side of the wings due to stealth, so you have to choose wisely.

Lasagnus, if you think the f35 is a 'horrid piece of machinery' then you clearly are an ignorant idiot. That jet would rip shit over all the teen series and in a lot of ways is better than the f22

Master of Puppets Explain how it’s better than the F22. Also sorry, youtube didn’t give me a notification for your reply. Here’s why, in my opinion, the Raptor is the best craft known to man. While it’s speed is currently classified, it is estimated that, without after burner, can go an approximate 1200 knots, almost twice the speed of sound. It’s super cruise abilities amass all others. It has a heavy, concealed ordinance. The raptor has the ability to carry 2-4 1000 pound bombs, which one is enough to *almost* sink a ship, it’s a definite sign of scuttling. It has the capability to carry air-to-surface missiles/rockets, and some AGMs. If it truly wanted, it could carry an approximate 14 AMRAAMS, however that would remove its stealth capability. With stealth, it could carry the following: 6 AMRAAMS, 2 Sidewinders 2 sidewinders, 2 1000 pound bombs 2 sidewinders, 4 GBU 32’s and other GBU variants 2 sidewinders, 4 air to ship/ground rockets, most likely AGMS It has twin engines, meaning if one engine fails, it can still fly, at a relatively fast speed as well, while the Lightning II can’t. It also has thrust vectoring, which means it can turn much sharper by tiny ailerons over and under each engine which turn any way that helps the direction it pulls. This opens up a *completely* new field of combat. The main goal of U.S aviators is to get far away and blast from a distance. The raptor would do so well in this position, but if needed, can get itself out of any combat scenario. The raptor has the best radar ever put on a flying machine. While it’s debated the tomcat had a better radar due to its range, the radar on the Raptor helps conceal itself (as if it wasn’t concealed enough already). While it does limit its seeing ability quite a bit, it can see whatever is truly necessary. Besides, AWACS has the range under control, as it is a Air Force craft. I had high hopes for the Lightning, I truly did. But it’s not worth it’s cost. Obama made the right decision to cancel the raptor program at the right time. We have enough as is, it’s definitely an expensive fighter and should be treated as such. The raptor is truly the most dominant fighter in the sky. See my comment above as to why the F-35 is not worth its cost.

I just watched a video of a Finnish pilot doing things that I didn't even know the FA-18 could do, you guys have some incredibly skilled pilots.

Not to mention the Super Hornets are compatible with U.S. Carriers if needed.

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F/A18d hornet is the superior,..

Me too. Had no idea!!!!

even Malaysia prefers buying more Hornets than adding more Flankers/Fulcrums to their fleet; that's how good it is.

Karma went to visit Boeing and say hi lol. From the max to the virus and now the deal is off oh plus many ordered cancelled too. Time for Boeing to use tax payer money so Airbus can ask EU to out tarrif on all Boeing planes sold in Europe because all it's planes "subsidized" by tax payer money hahahaha

Boeing blocking Bombardier is the hypocrisy of the century. Free market my foot. The fact that they can even use the US government to do their dirty work also showed who is really in charge of the country.

@@gelinrefira yeah im so sick of overriding market forces and factors for some dick measuring. It's why so many industries like healthcare are so fucked price wise. If markets could actually be open and more free, government subsidization wouldn't be nearly as required as it is across the board just to live normally these days. Keep pricing more and more of society out of basic necessities. Only to then give people the rest of the cash they need to afford shit.

I remember MCAS Miramar and NAS North Island.... Stationed there back in '01 to 05'... Hornet was a wonderful Bird.

US should continue with the Production of F18

Gripen already done, but surely love for a remake

These videos are available on the channel in Russian. Maybe they will be transferred in the future.

so all the pos jets basically

Hah, That's a happy pilot

5th? You mean 6th? Or just the 5th Gen of other countries? Because the US Military already has their 5th Gens.

@@TheRibbonRed The videos on 5th gen.

@@TheRibbonRed i mention it because of the next US fighter jet that follows in this series

There are only 2 5th gen airplanes in the world f22 and f35 -_-

@@TheRibbonRed no other country has a tth gen fighter

Sar Jim he is russian, soo...

I was going to post this. I'm sure it's driving many Marines bonkers hearing him mispronounce "corps". Thank you.

YEAH, THAT'S WEIRD. IT DENOTES NOT A FULL BRANCH. LET'S MAKE IT MARINES AMPHIBIOUS COMBINED ARMS FORCE (MACAF), AND SHIFT ALL TIER 1 AND 2 SPECIAL FORCES/OPERATIONS UNITS, SUCH AS SEALS, GREEN BERETS, ETC. OVER HERE TO ONE UNIFIED SOC FOR MORE EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT COMMAND AND CONTROL. SINCE THE (FORMER) MC IS THE NATION'S ADVANCED INFANTRY FORCE. IT SHOULD BE THE ONE TO RUN MOST SOFTIES AND SUCH UNCONVENTIONAL CRAP. OF COURSE, THE OTHER BRANCHES WOULD STILL NEED A LIMITED, INDEPENDENT SF CAPABILITY OF THEIR OWN ON HAND. TOO MANY EGGS IN ONE BASKET AND ALL THAT. ALSO IMPORTANT TO WEED OUT ALL DUAL LOYALTY CIA SLEEPER TROLLS.

IS ANYONE SUGGESTING WE ARE AN IMMATURE IDIOT? THAT IS TREASON! OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

F-15X/EX FOR CARRIERS!

Sadly that F-20 it's too powerful and affordable that other companies scared they might not make those big bucks. If you allies have a cheaper faster and more agile planes than what you have of course it's a bad news. Poor Northrop though..at least I m glad that F-17 was one of their plane. That company do made a lot of affordable planes compare to other companies like MD, Boeing or LM.