F-35C Completes First Arrested Landing aboard Aircraft Carrier

PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 3, 2014) The Navy made aviation history Nov. 3 as an F-35C Lightning II carrier variant Joint Strike Fighter conducted its first arrested landing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) off the coast of San Diego. The arrested landing is part of initial at-sea Developmental Testing I (DT-I) for the F-35C, which commenced Nov. 3 and is expected to last two weeks. (U.S. Navy video/Released)
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[@USNavy]

The Navy made aviation history Nov. 3 as an F-35C Lightning II carrier variant Joint Strike Fighter conducted its first arrested landing aboard an aircraft carrier off the coast of San Diego. The arrested landing is part of initial at-sea Developmental Testing I (DT-I) for the F-35C, which commenced Nov. 3 and is expected to last two weeks.

[@princessmiriam6911]

Royal Casino

[@TheRealKayFamily]

Good, because the Navy prefers those with an education and proper grammar to fly their aircraft.

[@SlavGod47]

Zillions Jackson me too, probably. but, i'd rather fly drones

[@seancushing5103]

yard wolf anchors away!

[@colwynsankey3150]

By the time this hits a squadron near me I'll be retiring and the flight deck I know will be a thing of the past.

[@MarkD86]

This is great, but the video needs more Kenny Loggins.

[@KristyMcClellan]

To those of you that thumbed down this video, I'm sorry. I couldn't hear you over the awesomeness.

[@rvnmedic1968]

Made it look like a routine carrier landing. Excellent pilot, awesome aircraft!

[@r0naj30]

Slightly happy but slightly depressing as it marks the end of the F-18 era yet I'm still years away from flying one.

[@MarcoRubio2012]

The USN is going for a high-low mix. High would be the 35 and low would be the F-18. F-18's will be around when you start flying. Good luck.

[@kickztailout3216]

After a half dozen F-35s are surrendered to the sea every year you might find the 18s sticking around longer than expected.

[@cup_and_cone]

Lol

[@agoodchristianpilot159]

@@kickztailout3216 F-35s are actually excellent fighters, near every fighter we own had an accident rate much higher than that of fat amy. The only reason why people say it’s trash is because media want something to talk about that they “know” when in reality pilots love it and the enemy fear it.

[@josemaldonado2040]

Yeah baby!!! Way to go PAX-ITF!! Glad to be part of the team. BE SAFE!!

[@wnstrauss2259]

Stunningly beautiful! I wish I could have been there to watch! Congratulations to the USA Navy!!!

[@DR.ELEKTRIK]

God bless the Servicemen and the Engineers at Skunk Works!

[@DSDominick]

Nice three wire trap, but that's a pretty sweet F-18 flying alongside

[@HF-eu2ei]

Yeah! Go NAVY!!!👍

[@markcruickshank2848]

Wow, he even caught the 3 wire. Not bad

[@elykeom1]

gotta flex on them hoes

[@lenjoyce1]

This just makes my heart beat faster. I Love it.

[@SEASIDEVIDEOS]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. KIND REGARDS.SEASIDE

[@lfox02]

And a very nice 3-wire to boot! Good stuff.

[@erikviking4749]

so the tail hook is long enough now?

[@Desmodromic916]

Nice, good luck!

[@Beatles5]

Great job. I hope you have constructed special missiles (Christmas presents) for IS.

[@sferrin2]

What happened to the second one? I thought two were flying out?

[@SeanBusmc]

What time does the Mess Hall open?

[@nimaside]

I have been waiting for this day for soo long. I was hoping to see him fold his wings after landing.

[@NeonFlare]

Thank goodness the UK are replacing the outdated Typhoon jets with these

[@aaahobby]

Was this feat not shortly followed by the first at sea cat launch? If not, why not?.

[@rodgeml1]

It was followed shortly by the fist cat launch, with many more of each after that.

[@F22raptor46]

OH hell yes!! I put my fist up in cheer of success when she caught the wire!!!

[@poloasis]

Nice!

[@TheFreakazoid67216]

That just makes me want to play Battlefield even more

[@kahos2000]

Very nice..

[@myklobe]

Tagged the middle arrestor cord. Atta boy (or girl)!

[@mutexnet]

Very nice

[@dontworry6672]

does the f35 c have vertical landing?

[@nlowry8]

don’t worry, no

[@nlowry8]

Only the B version has vtol

[@llamashockz]

Whats the point in risking a carrier landing like that when it can do v-tol?

[@maxpattio3220]

It can't though. An F-35C cannot perform Vertical Landing, and vertical landings also result in reduced launch loads.

[@alexsalvador8]

Nice! The future begins.

[@rickwilliamson9248]

I'm not a LSO, but that looked like an OK 3-wire to me.

[@juliebork]

The true test will be to see if an air force pilot can land on an aircraft carrier.

[@rodgeml1]

Um....Air Force pilots don't land on carriers.

[@fossil6845]

why would they do that, Air force pilots are not even remotely trained do attempt anything like this. the time a navy pilot learns how to land on a carrier which takes months of training. the air force pilot is learning to better employ the aircraft's weapons systems in an actual fight,

[@putinsays]

Wow, it didn't crash! That's surprising!

[@TheArabsolga]

+putinsays Only 1 F-35 has ever crashed.

[@maxpattio3220]

@@TheArabsolga Now five.

[@machia-mw1lm]

FLY NAVY

[@ion9062]

Wait,that doesn't have 4 wires,it has 5.

[@berrysoftball]

No look at the next to last one in the shot. No CDP. Its for the barricade only. You can see the Barricade stanchions line up with it.

[@stevedz313]

Wowzers, amazing, a $200 million plane can do what planes did in the 1920s. COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. ~Arfcom

[@user-kk3zn7uj7x]

Arab zene

[@Caseytify]

Wow. The Navy was landing self-piloting machines on carriers nearly one hundred years ago? Inconceivable!

[@njnj7247]

Hi

[@robertbrockway6580]

+stevedz313 That is why they call it testing, you dumb fuck.

[@viktorstar4203]

fuck yeah

[@kaitada]

これからの主役になる機体ですね！

[@user-jy4vk4fm3h]

In the former Soviet Union was also a deck attack vertical takeoff and landing Yak-38!)

[@machia-mw1lm]

This is not the last maned airplane. Already sixth generation designs are on the drawing boards with a cockpit. Real eyes in the sky control battle spaces, computer screens and men in bunkers don't.

[@SuperiorAmericanGuy]

Awesome about time

[@snab6566616]

Не верю. Вопросов у меня два: сколько дололнительных болтов засажено бедному F-35 в фюзеляж, чтобы он не развалился на посадке (а тем более на взлете с авианосца (привет катапульте)). Вопрос №2: вы его бедного что весь солидолом обмазали, что у вас центроплан гнить перестал, и начал, хоть на раз, перегрузку держать?

[@cdhutch]

(OK) _LIG_ (HX) (NEP.CDIM) (LOBIC-AR)

[@Gatmow]

Missed the middle wire, just saying ;)

[@rodgeml1]

There are four wires, so there is no such thing as a "middle wire". The jet caught the three wire, which is the intended arrestment.

[@Gatmow]

I stand corrected, thanks :)

[@Gatmow]

But..... Modern carriers typically have three or four arresting cables laid across the landing area. All U.S. carriers in the Nimitz-class, along withEnterprise, have four wires, with the exception of the USS Ronald Reagan and USS George H.W. Bush, which have only three. The Gerald R. Ford-class carriers will also have three.

[@rustyharris9481]

Too big, too expensive. Replacing the A-10 with the 35 is nuts! The A-10 can be shot to pieces and STILL fly. Try that with one of these and see what happens! BIG mistake!

[@1989theblacknight]

Yeah they'll bring the A-10 back. It was built for interdiction, whereas the F-35 is predominantly used for air-superiority. They actually did use an A-10 very recently for some ISIS business.

[@JonHunter69]

the A-10 is a ground attack aircraft with no air to air weopons. The F-35 is a fighter (air to air) different aircraft with different missions. one did not replace the other

[@SufaViper1]

Check your facts. Check out Feb. 15, 1991 and tell me again how much damage an A-10 can take. Fact is anyone armed with a few SAMs and trained on the will kill anything low enough to use a gun. Get to an altitude where you are safe from short range stuff and you are just dropping bombs and firing missiles. So what makes an A-10 any better than a fighter at that point?

[@thejunkmanlives]

1989theblacknight that's not true. F35 was designed as a multi role fighter from day one. Which includes air to air, air to ground etc.

[@thejunkmanlives]

your forgetting how much overall air defenses have improved since A-10 was designed. Its great against the extremist but we have to consider better trained and equipped enemies that will field advanced shoulder fired weapons and other air defenses. What we need is a successor to A-10.

[@PlaneAF876]

More more dammit!!

[@gorknoids]

POS. Has been, is now, always will be.

[@SackyX]

Besides the Stovl variant, the f-35's performance will not be much different than an F-18 or 16, from what I have read. I am not talking about section and stealth capabilities. Sad there is no gun at all. Edit: At the time of my initial post I was aware the USAF version will have a gun with limited ammunition.

[@andrewm1058]

+t hammer the Air force has one on the A varient

[@SackyX]

+Andrew M Yup I know that but the Navy and Marine versions don't. If mission requires it I guess, I hear they will be able to carry a gun pod just as the F-4 Phantoms did. Every pilot I have met would want a gun handy.

[@andrewm1058]

Yeah suprised they didn't learn their lesson with the f4 the first time they thought a fighter won't need a gun

[@andrewm1058]

Themeganova100 While attached true though all they have to do is not attach the pod to maintain stealth

[@ASDFUIL]

CONGRATULATIONS, YOU BUILT A PLANE THAT IS CAPABLE OF LANDING ON AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER THAT WAS WORTH THE FIFTEEN THOUSAND SCHOOLS WE COULD HAVE BUILT INSTEAD

[@robertbrockway6580]

+Rusty Shackleford Didn't do you any good, you're still as dumb as a rock.

[@kylekaehler]

Are you stupid?

[@taygray86]

+No mercy it isn't a STOVL aircraft... the C variant is the navy... main difference is the heavy-duty gear, larger wings. the B model is STOVL and it will be used by the Marines and doesn't use a cat or an arresting cable for landing.

[@tomservo5007]

0:24 F-18 photo bomb

[@andrewm1058]

am i the only one who thinks that the hook area looks like a sack

[@puppy1dallas]

dont they do that every day? nothing new

[@robertbrockway6580]

+Wild Ann It is called testing you dumb fuck.

[@putinsays]

+Wild Ann Everyone is shocked that the most expensive failure in human history is capable of landing without crashing.

[@robertbrockway6580]

putinsays only simple idiots like you. The C variant is doing exactly what it is designed to do. The only ones that are surprised are you dumb ass F-35 haters.

[@putinsays]

+Robert Brockway Stop whining

[@robertbrockway6580]

putinsays WRONG pea brain, you're doing all the bitching and crying. You are such a idiot.

[@geoago]

.....I want to know what the hell you need .... A machine expensive , outside in the actual contexts of war..... Just a mission you lose one for mechanical reasons and one for a gunshot Muslim (to which the ECM and the Stealthness do nothing) you have lost the war for economic reasons!

[@nguyentuan1990]

MURIA

[@user-ms3sc6wz7y]

я хоть в первые в жизни увидел как самолёт при посадке цепляется за тросс.

[@bujoun76]

THAT - was some sexy shit...!

[@Sub___Zero]

Still remains shit

[@bujoun76]

SUB ZERO LIN KUEI People once said that about the F-14. And most of the specs, between the two, are similar...

[@Sub___Zero]

FrakU2 But the difference between of the magnificent F14 and this pile f shit is more than obvious. F14 can carry more than 4 bombs... That one can carry only 2... F14 can carry 6 missiles... that one only 2 aim-9...2 AIM 120... F14 has over 2,2 mach speed That one barely 1,6.. F14 can fight in Close 1 on 1 combat... that one CANNOT Even a Hot Air balloon is more agile ! F14 is one of the most capable fighter jets in BVR... That one is not...That one is blind... I dont remember that ...F14 had more than 300 problems on its appearance... That one has over 700 ! F14 costs ~38 million USD... That one costs over 100 each ! My fiend.....Fail 35 was created for 1 main reason... To sell it to fools and US slaves like the mongolians...believing that this one is also stealth...but is not even that. Fail 35 is the clearest example of fail ONLY by LOOKING AT IT ! Do not even compare it with F14. Do not compare it with none...to be more specific... And uhhhh... PS Do me a favor...and your self.... Change that avatar...find something cooler... Like F16...A-10...A7...A6...F15...Sukhoi...Mirage...Jaguar...MIG... etc

[@MinhHaiNguyen2409]

SUB ZERO LIN KUEI F-35 clearly can carry more than 2 bombs or 2 missiles: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II#mediaviewer/File:Flickr_-_Official_U.S._Navy_Imagery_-_A_pilot_pilots_the_F-35B_Joint_Strike_Fighter_test_aircraft..jpg

[@Sub___Zero]

Minh Hai Nguyen Very smart......but since that thing IS NOT stealth...WITHOUT external weapons... I can only imagine the spot in every radar with that weaponry HAHAHAA..... Not to mention....with that heavy weaponry ...its max G turn will be 2,3 G HAHAAAAAAAAAAA

[@navy57]

The F-35 is undoubtedly a State-of-the-Art technological triumph, but so were Titanium Spurs for the Cavalry. The F-35 is a terribly expensive solution looking for a problem to solve.

[@cliffcharpentier34]

My money says the super hornets woll not be replaced and this things if they ever actually mkve out of test stage will more then likely end up head to head with the 22

[@rodgeml1]

Nope. The F-35 is designed for an entirely different mission than the F-22 is. They work in concert with each other, not competition.

[@cliffcharpentier34]

Matt Rodgers I didnt mean do the same job. I mean head to head as two aircraft that don't work. The 22 Spends 99% of the time being serviced. Both so far are a pos

[@One_Rifle]

The Navy already stated that the Super Hornet will be in service for some time, the F-35C is meant to replace the Navy's F/A-18 A-D variants while E/F/G variants will still fly.

[@cliffcharpentier34]

Nicholas Johansson still dont think they will replace any of them.

[@One_Rifle]

Gonna have to, the Navy is gonna have to sell the F/A-18 C&Ds in order to recoop a percentage of their investment on the JSF program.

[@DanWill121]

Time to bring "democracy" and freedom somewhere...

[@dimanman6180]

Говно а не самолет ваш F-35))

[@ItsJosh]

The Chinese and Russians have there own version of this plane for years, there better, and they work. And were exited because we got a plane to land on a carrier. Thats embarrassing, these F-35's are too expensive, they need to be repaired every time they land and require a climate controlled hanger.

[@anderslindstrom2336]

What bullshit are you spewing? Neither the Chinese J-20 nor the PAK-FA have gotten anywhere, and are at least ten years from being able to compete with the F35. Further, the F35s cost for mass production (At least the A Model), is now down to 80 million per aircraft. Also, can you cite your sources as to how the PAK-FA and J-20 are supposedly superior aircraft to the F35?

[@WSOJ3]

+Lindstrom. Yeah, and not to mention the Chinese and Russia versions are not cheap either. Even a previous generations Su35 costs $50 million. The F35 costs $100 million, but is much more sophisticated than Su35. When T50 and J20 goes to production 10-15 years later, I doubt they'll be any cheaper than F35.

[@machia-mw1lm]

Actually the F35 may be a bargain. Have any idea what separate airframe systems would have cost? In any case the airplane is proving herself with trials by the USN, USMC and the USAF. Yeah, turning weaponry money into looking for cures for disease is a societal dream, but sadly remains a dream due to mankinds obsession with conflict and the growing cancer of Islamicfacism.