Live Q&A with F-14 Tomcat and Super Hornet Pilot | Rear Admiral (Ret) Mike Manazir

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[@Aircrewinterview]

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i reckon 1 manned + drones would stronglyu benefit from a 2 man crew, backseater managing the drones etc

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52:51 "I squeezed the black juice outta the stick many, many, many times in Southern Iraq on a KC-135. Thats just hard."

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[@mikeck4609]

F-35 underpowered??? The F-35 and F-16 both have a 1:1 thrust to weight at air combat configuration (4-6 air to air missiles) and 50% fuel. Considering the F-16 only Carries 6,000lbs of fuel internally while the F-35 Carries 18,000lbs internally; that means that the F 35 has a 1:1 thrust to weight ratio in air combat configuration at 9000 pounds of fuel while the F-16 can’t get there until it’s down to 3000 pounds of fuel, so how do we figure the F 35 is underpowered while the F-16 is not? EF Dash 35 has the most powerful jet engine ever put into a fighter aircraft, and it has a better thrust to weight ratio than the F-16, when sharing the same weight of fuel/Casmo It amazes me that these myths about the F 35 still exist like it can’t dogfight can’t climb the standard pier spray bullshit despite the fact the pilot to fly it absolutely love it you can pull more alpha than a hornet, and I cannot write an F-16 because it’s in clean configuration while the F-16 has crap hanging off the wings causing parasitic drag. Two Norwegian, F Dash 35 pilots when they train against F-16s have to have the F-16s in an absolute clean configuration to make it competitive.

[@LRRPFco52]

F-16 carries 7,000lb internal but your overall assessment is correct. F-35C carries over 19,000lb internal so it has at least 100nm more combat radius over the 2-tank F-14D. Since F-35Cs have better SA than any other fighters even when legacy are linked with E-2C/D, it provides better BARCAP capabilities and networks with the surface warfare and ASW assets simultaneously.

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[@mikeck4609]

The F-14 carried just under 18,000lbs of fuel with external tanks. The F-35C Carries 20,000lbs of fuel INTERNALLY with no tanks, only has ONE engine and that engine is far more fuel efficient than the GE on the F-14 So how- considering the F-35 Carrie’s all pods and most weapons internally to maintain a “clean” configuration- is it that people celebrate the range of the F-14 and complain about the range of the F-35. No fighter aircraft in the world has a longer range than an F-35 without external tanks and few even with them

[@s2korpionic]

Because it's socially cool to hate on the F-35 apparently.

[@Scoobydcs]

f14 is 16100 internal, 20100 with tanks

[@RedlinerSeven]

People don't like hearing facts.

[@Scoobydcs]

What's the range for both?

[@LRRPFco52]

@@Scoobydcs F-14s flew with 2 tanks as the norm most of its service life. Even with tanks, it was a 450-550nm radius profile. For BARCAP, you pull the radius in if you want time on station in the intercept ring and coordinate coverage with tankers. F-35C has at least 100nm more than the F-14D. It also has dramatucally-superior Radar and IR sensor detection, tracking, and PID ranges networked with other F-35s, E-2Ds, P-8As, RQ-4C, and surface vessels in the battle group. Maintenance Man Hours/Flight Hour on F-35Cs are in the 6-8hr range as well, which is less than half the hours on Super Hornets. You can sortie-generate better than any jet carrier fighter, stay out longer, with farther-reaching sensors, and unfair weapons employment parameters.

[@Scoobydcs]

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