The F-35 Block 4 is Pure Science Fiction!

The F-35 block 4 will be an important step ahead for the F-35 program.
Let's see how is it going to happen

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00:00 Alien Tech or Scifi?
00:18 Intro
00:22 What this video about
00:55 Blk 4 satisfy the original requirement
01:12 Previous blk on the delivered airframe and export customer
02:00 Somethings about Blk 4
02:35 Software issues
03:09 (on screen) Panther spec with cool animation
03:40 Some parallel with Su-27 early development (check previous video for more)
03:47 OTIS appereance #1
06:08 C2D2
07:15 Blk 3F combat test
08:57 Improvement in Blk 4
09:17 New Engine?
10:13 Radar
13:26 OTIS appereance #2
13:45 Passive sensing
16:16 EOTS
17:25 EW
19:40 DAS
21:47 MADL
24:08 Display
26:12 Power and Unit control
28:05 OTIS appereance #3
29:00 Weapon bays
29:51 Weapons integration
31:05 A2A
31:34 A2G
33:05 Non-US weapon
34:17 Processing power
39:48 The point is..
41:01 Sensor Management
42:50 Identify is not as easy as detecting
44:00 OTIS appereance #4
45:50 MADL benefit
47:30 Mission Data Files
48:58 Things that not covered in this video due to duration
49:15 Closing and Outro (M7 looks very tired)

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[MillenniumHistoryTech]

The F-35 block 4 will be an important step ahead for the F-35 program.
Let's see how is it going to happen

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[kathrynck]

I have to agree with 100% of this video.
Although it's not an entirely new problem. F-4's didn't hit their stride until the E model. Lawn-Darts weren't genuinely "desirable" until the C model around block 50/52. The F-14A was drastically underpowered. etc.
PS: This video is a monumental piece of work. Superbly researched & edited!

[malokegames]

16:32 Being able to stream Netflix during long-range missions is definitely a life-quality improvement! 😂

[ghostmourn]

Perhaps the F35 program was never poorly conceived from a quality pov, rather it was poorly conceived from a value POV. (Americans will move mountains to maintain air dominance becasue its been made clear that if we dont - they consequences are grave. Probably all of our necks)

[shounak]

Thanks. Woow this was quite something!!! Still processing in most of it. Dang !!! Probably, i will need 2-3 runs to absorb most of it

[billhanna]

Thank you AGAIN for your excellent work. Lately each of these OPUS grade episodes are real eye openers. You help, like no one else, flesh out the nuances.🙏🙏💪💪💪👏👏👏👏

[Er]

I'll never be able to look at the F-35 without thinking of the stealth pee-tank now. Thanks

[The_ZeroLine]

Every time I watch or read about 5th or 6th gen aircraft, it’s so easy to see why delays and problems are endless. They’re maddeningly complex. Even a new jet engine design seems simple in comparison.

[tommorgan]

This 88 year flew since he was 16 striving to become a commercial pilot but gave. Along the way I found often not everything worked. Those planes are like a cycle compare to 2023 planes. I bet it's a real challenge and expensive to keep everything working with today's aviation technology. Good luck to our pilots especially anyone crazy to become a Naval Aviator.

[Homeboy]

Just amazing professionalism and dedication to put all this content together. I could easily spend another 50 min just watching your "documentary". Job well done - thank you!

[Lebimaslac]

When I hear DAS I always remember F1, when Mercedes made that mechanism where they pull the steering wheel to change front wheel alignment. Anyway, it's a great video, very informative, I have to watch it one more time!

[patrickchase]

The F-35 was always mind-blowingly ambitious. People focus on the B and its impacts on the airframe, but that was never where the real challenge resided. The software/electronics goals are agressive even by current standards, and they were largely conceived and architected in the 1990s and 2000s.

Honestly I'm surprised that it has turned out as well as it did. I'm not surprised that the pre-TR3 hardware turned out to be underpowered relative to the program goals. They were projecting 2 decades out when they created it, and we software people always tend to underestimate from that far out.

[jimmyvollman]

No one provides the level of technical detail on these topics like you do. Most sites are for complete light weights and newbies. Not you. Thank you so much for doing the heavy lifting for us needs out here.

[aninoutski]

Your channel will be very popular in upcoming years. I have no doubts about it. Keep it up!

[sohrabroozbahani]

So basically the challenge of making the F35 was not the ace combat cool looking jet part, but the magic orb they managed to forge into it which lifts the fog of war and gives you the ability to peer unto the thoughts of your enemies as they are manifesting...
PS... R2D2 stands for Regrettably Repeating Delivery Delays... we are currently still at C2D2 but don't worry, we will eventually get to R as well 😅
Jokes aside, thanks for the class sensei, it was a mind boggling amount of information to absorb, thank you for all the hard work.🙏

[wyldhowl]

Canada's deal is for the Block 4's so seeing this level of detail is interesting for our RCAF's future.

[alinmeleandra]

OMFG, when agile SW development was introduced in AUTOMOTIVE, I said that: "I hope Aerospace and military doesn't do that", now, it's clear that they use Agile methodology to develop SW for F-35 but they didn't go full agile but use a mixed development process with Waterfall processes and that, probably led to the mismanagement of the SW development... That's my take, based they planned the deployment packages...

[truquichan]

¡Fantástico! Muy buena compilación del espacio OSINT y las bien recibidas y moderadas "educated guest"

[MeatVision]

11:00 all those operations at the same time is crazy, sensors fusion must be incredible

[networkgeekstuff]

This DAS thingy, I was sceptical of how effective it could be and thinking that "a better pilot can definitelly do the same with 4th gen instruments" until I had a amateurish example experience of something like that in game called VTOL VR where a fictional F-35 like plane and fictional 4th gen plane (with HMD) are available to fly... honestly having the transparent cockpit and sensor fusion is like a cheat code. You have arcade-game-like of situational awarenes in a furball just by looking somewhere.