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What's wrong with this picture?

The F-35 has the ability to share all the info its sensors can gather, along with its own flight info (location, course, weapons load, etc) with several other F-35s directly, so that the pilots can share tasks and work together without the need for a central controller. One F-35 can provide full sensor data directly to the others in a manner that acts as if their sensors were providing the info. Therefore several F-35s can attack a group of enemy aircraft or other targets with only one using its sensors, but with each pilot "seeing" all the data directly, and making his own decisions based on that.

Doesn't that make that one F-35 extremely vulnerable because it's broadcasting its position while the others keep radio silent? Does it stay in the rear because of that?

I guess it's better than all of them exposing themselves simultaneously. But there ought to be some order of priority about who takes the lead if the one providing sensor data is destroyed.
 
That's all part of the very classified "tactical procedures" book - part of which is currently being written by VMF-121 at MCAS Yuma (the first USMC operational F-35 squadron), as well as by the USAF's training squadrons at Eglin AFB Florida and Luke AFB Arizona (61st Fighter Squadron).

And no, I have no contacts with my former squadron (-121), and even if I did they wouldn't tell me anything.
 
Awww those A10 ponies seem to be bound for the glue factory.... or the US Army, or the USMC, or Canada depending on the latest suggestion. ;)
 
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Hmm. The Japanese seem to like to put girls into everything. I'm still trying to recover from that "tank" cartoon. :D
 
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