@@cladarreonbattle3587 My flying aircraft carrier is a blimp. It runs on a hybrid of solar and jet engines. I designed it to be as fast and effeicent as possible! But what would it be without weapons It's fully armed with Cannons, Anti aircraft missiles, and Flares!!
I honestly couldn't tell whether some of the CGI was real or not. The animation of all the fans twisting and turning was perfection. And your team even used nice touches such as depth of field in some of the scenes that could have easily just been a flat 2D graphic. This makes me want to get back into doing 3d.
A friend of mine is a mechanic in the Royal Navy. When they bought their F-35s from America, they sent a squad of mechanics to learn how to maintain the jets, and he was one of them. Currently he has been deployed over there for over 5 years and they still have more to learn, this jet is no joke.
@@AnotherSpaceCowBoy the plane alone is now down to 75mil$ USD per jet for the USA and about 78-83mil for partner development countries for the A model. Btw the gripen E is about 83 to 88 mil for the plane alone. Last i checked the the F15 EX is in the same range. Yes some details require more attention.
@@AnotherSpaceCowBoy this is what happens when people listen to the media without their pwn research. if you ha done you research you would knw that becuase this fighter is so popular this has ineviebaly drastically reduced its maintenance costs. as of right now it probably one of the most cost effective options for its battlefield control.
@@CptSpears007 I used to think the same until I understood sometimes it's necessary just for the appearance; that if a certain country decides to mess with us they know they can get destroyed so they'd rather not and keep the peace, unlike if the USA seemed defenseless.
I worked on the design and manufacture of both the 3 bearing swivel duct system, and the actuators for opening the lift fan doors. What a piece of technology it is! It caused us nightmares in the early development, but it pushed the boundaries of engineering and was a privilege to work on.
As an aerospace engineering student, this video is incredible. Not only your team is able to break down all the technical details into just a 20 min video, the animation is absolutely stunning
Nice! Stick with it. As a current aerospace engineer and former student who has worked in the industry now for fifteen years, I appreciate the insane amount of work that you are going through right now. Trust me, it will all be worth it!
Yeah , so informative an accurate 😂plain with operational radius just over 1000 km flies in Russia aerospace for 6000 , and not even planing to turn back home …
Its pretty nice, but i wouldnt say incredible. The 3D model is quite low poly and they didnt bother re-meshing it so they can subdivide for the close-up shots, so lots of visible polygons. The textures are also wrong, there are decals that say "NO STOP" when infact they should say "NO STEP". Still, way above youtube quality average ;)
The radar jamming string thing reminds me of a technique the allies used to avoid sound guided torpedoes in WW2. They just basically just tied a big speaker (or some sort of sound emitter) to a cable on the ship that reached some distance behind it when thrown, so the torpedo would just follow that instead of the ship. They basically rendered a state of the art high end piece of military equipment useless with just a speaker and some string
If I remember correctly, it was simpler than a speaker. They were just some metal bars that would clang together to produce noise as they were dragged through the water behind the ship.
If the movie “Greyhound” is accurate, it looks like German U-boats used a similar technique. This video is showing A LOT more capabilities of this plane, A LOT MORE, than I’ve seen anywhere else! They are great capabilities, but that radar jammer that the pilot can reel out is about the most crazy thing I couldn’t even begin to imagine a jet fighter having! So my next question is, once deployed, can the pilot reel it back in?
I'm a jet plane fanatic and have probably viewed a hundred videos on stealth planes including the F-35. I have never commented on any of them, but wanted to give you a high thumbs up for such an excellent presentation that was not only enjoyable to watch but tremendously informative! I'm very informed on the subject of stealth and yet I learned much watching your video. This is saying a lot! Your video was concise, precise, entertaining, and relevant allowing both the novice viewer and expert to stay glued to your topic the entire time. Keep up the excellent work!
It doesn't get the funny trading card numbers, but it turns out the most important stuff happens to be the things people find too boring to put on the trading cards. Like, actually knowing who the heck is shooting at you
The problem is they have had to spend over a decade fixing it. It's like comparing a release day AAA videogame that can barely function and has a mountain of laughable problems to one that's been out for 5 years and received about 5,000 patches. It's in fine shape now - great even - but it sure wasn't the case at launch.. it's the No Man's Sky of aircraft.
You have done your homework. These features are hidden within the deepest of interviews and only touched in hour + long videos. However you’re able to do it so clearly, quickly, and in such quantity, that not only is this plane impressive , but this is video is. Great Job.
He explained it so well Russia and China should use it as an introduction to stealth aircraft! I learned a lot I thought I would never know. Fantastic and entertaining
@@Greg-yu4ij I mean this is all Public knowledge. And even if they do manage to reverse engineer the f-35, it’s one thing to design something and make a prototype out of it. It’s a totally different thing to be able to mass manufacture it like the US.
@ElodieFiorella oh yeah the Chinese will never get our paint recipes... NOT. Only one guy I know of ever tried to stop them stealing all our secrets. The rest take their money
except he doesn't bring up a single negative point. like the massive production cost, 3x of any fighter before it. or that it's worse at every single task compared to a dedicated plane for that function.
@@Greg-yu4ij Seeing how the Soviets (a fella named Ufimtsev) did all the research on radar vs stealth in the 60s that we are still using today, the challenge is not building one exhibit. Building and maintaining fleets is hard.
I learned something new. The F-35 uses MADL. I actually worked on MADL in the early 2000's. I knew that it was supposed to be in the F-35, but I left the company before finding out if it was ever actually being used. Now I know that there is a little piece of me in every aircraft. Thanks.
This is an incredibly well-made video. And I'm not just saying that as an F-35 fan. I worked at LM on 2 of the systems that go into it, thought I was pretty well-versed on the F-35, and I still learned things here. Great job.
Serious question - was YAK141 ever considered, taken as "inspirational" for this fighter jet? It was Russia first and world best (raw performance) JTOL abandoned since they had 2 aircratf carriers but only one was left to Russia one was given to Ukraine.. and they sold it to China. So Russia abandoned JTOL plans in favour of Su27/35. I cant resist to think F35 is mariage of F22 and YAK141.
@JoeTuber harrier jet came before it. This wasn't russias first JTOL or VTOL wtf are you on about. No the f35 did not take any inspiration. They are completely different. "But my side intakes!!!" "But the way it uses thrust on the side!" Wow thats crazy, not the the first side by side intake jet and completely different thrust systems.
@@KabelkowyJoe Lockheed was the financial backer for the Yak-141 program, when it was shutdown, they took inspiration and experience with them for the X/F-35. it not a copy but Lockheed improve upon it, all the similarity is the VTOL that is similar but not the same.
THIS. This is the content I want from UA-cam, Nebula, Curiosity Stream, whatever. Great visuals, great narration, respect for the viewer's intelligence. Wonderful work here!
From basic white and blue blueprints to realistic 3D models has been an incredible journey as I watch through your videos. The level of quality and information in your initial videos were already high tier. It's amazing how far you've gone since I started with your t34 video. Excited for more videos!
02:05 Radar Range & Radar Gap 03:17 Tailless Design 03:23 V Tail Design 04:58 Upper Surface Intake 05:21 Low Pressure Air 06:03 Boundary Layer 06:33 Boundary Layer Diverter 06:47 Diverterless Supersonic Intake 07:38 Signal Strength vs Edge L 07:41 Serration 08:03 Telescopic Ladder Hatch 08:10 Hatches 08:18 Flare Dispenser 08:38 Decoy 09:33 Radar Scattering Tape 10:48 Cylinder Radar Signature 11:07 Nose Cone Shape 11:19 Largest Hatch 12:50 Shaft Power 13:05 Swivel Nozzle 14:31 Visualization 14:53 Roll Nozzles 15:04 Guide Vanes 16:21 Exhaust Speed vs Top Speed 16:58 Lift Fan Weight 17:53 Head Mounted Display 19:05 Radar Antenna 21:09 Radar Position 21:50 MADL No info about EOTS, DAS and WAD You can find another great animation about F-35B on SYG DESIGNWORKS
Same I got to see Major "Beowulf" demonstrate the F-35A at the 2022 Andrew's Air Expo. I knew it was a badass plane but watching her pitch the plane up and slow to "less than 80mph" (which is what I think the announcer said) was an awe inspiring moment.
I think it's worth calling out how incredible it is that the F-35 can take off from an assault ship with a 258m deck. For comparison, a WW2 Essex class carrier (like the USS Yorktown) had a flight deck of 262m. So, this aircraft is capable of operating from ships smaller than WW2 carriers. Amazing.
@FabrisFanatic So you mean aircraft could launch just fine from carriers that were only 4m longer back in the WW2 days and NOT need multi-billion dollar engines to make them behave like helicopters so they could?
How is it that I can be a pacifist and yet find that when well explained, the subject of advanced engineering fighter jets like the F-35, is absolutely unmissable? I have followed your channel for a long time and your ability to make a subject scientifically relevant and yet fascinating, is unmatched. Please keep these great presentations coming.
As an F-35A Crew Chief, I gotta say y'all did a decent job. Just wait a few decades until they start declassifying more about this jet maybe like 40-50 years, then you'll be really blown away. If they do that is...
You are now being followed by all of China!!!! Do not read this comment or all your classified information will be sent to China, North Korea, Russia, and more!!!!! lol
I've never heard so much information on how stealth works. It feels like I just got a security clearance and am allowed to hear classified information. This is very cool.
@@dragonfire2371 this is just information that is publicly available. The plane has much more advance concepts that makes it as stealthy and advanced and that is well protected. The serrations are widely known, the paint composition is a secret and the software and IOT that makes this plane shine are well hidden.
What's made public now is what was cutting edge 20 years ago. You better believe that the real cutting edge tech of today is well hidden... in plain sight.
I worked for DAARPA for a bit after my Naval Career. I feel like i just recieved a TOP SECRET, CODE WORD, Numbered release EYES ONLY briefing in the Basement of the Pentagons Missing Ring Quiet Rooms.
Finally, a worthy video about the f-35. Thank you so much for making this! I've watched every serious f-35 video on UA-cam as well as all the bootleg ones, and this is by far the best one I've ever viewed. It's actually the first time I'm hearing about the sensor that's deployed through fiber optic cable too. Avoid missile detection. Outstanding video. Your effort is really appreciated
One of the videos from Binkov's Battlegrounds mentioned the towed decoy (though the first of his videos to bring up the subject said that the F-35 didn't have one - a weakness compared to 4th generation jet fighters)
I watched a F35 flying around Hill Air force base yesterday when I was up that way. Flying low and fast doing barrel rolls. It was sweet! People up there are completely zoned out to them though, its hilarious.
It's really funny how there was a group of high ranking officers trying to cut down the project for being "too expensive, unnecessarily complicated, unreliable and useless" compared to already existing, cheaper and rugged planes, like the F-15. Don't forget the "iT CaN't dOGfIghT" argument. Yes, I'm talking about the reformers. Also, notice that all in this video is declassified information and it's still jaw dropping, imagine the classified capabilities of the F-35 and how outstanding it must be.
yes, but keeping the 4th gen jets on the side, which have a much smaller cost per flight hour and higher availability is a good option when you don't operate in a very contested airspace like Irak. The F35 is of course a lot ahead of these though.
@@filippopotame3579looking forward, I think most of our wars are going to be in contested airspace. China specifically. Having a plane that is so driven by stealth and situational awareness is what's going to keep it relevant long term, not how tight of a circle it can turn.
It would have been cheaper... But, like all aircraft, every delivery breeds more requirements. This many units, at this capability, is this price. When you ask for more development, on a finished product, the cost skyrockets. The whole design has to be broke down, re-optimzed, and most times drastic changes must be made to support the new requirements. Add in another 5000-20000 manhours of the best engineers, trying to make it all fit, finding out, if we put this here, that goes bad. Now your coffee pot adds 5 miles of wire, 1000 more connections, sub assemblies must be redesigned, the manufacturing procces gets overhauled, again, another 20000 manhours at the highest level. 1000000's of man hours trickle down, material costs are boundless. What does it cost to design and forge a bulkhead? What about five versions so grandad can have his coffee pot, and a lighted shave mirror? Oh now it costs more so we want less. Economy of scale is killed at every opportunity. Unit cost goes up. Turns out we need a sink to service the coffee pot, and shave mirror, wait, don't we need a razor holder??? Now it costs more, so we want less units...
There's a reason why Chinese military simulators used to develop their own technology just sets American equipment to "practically invincible" and then they go from there.
I'm old enough to remember this plane being hated by 'online specialists'. It's good to see it getting the love it deserves. It's a wonderful piece of engineering and also a beautiful bird.
Not sure what this has to do with age. It has always been hated by "online specialists" to this very day. You will still find people who say its a waste of money and complete trash. Some will never learn.
The F-16 had a turbulent and drawn out development cycle too as they kept adding more things they expected it to do. Thankfully for the F-16, it wasn't developed during the time of the internet so the hate piling was far less obvious. Now it's considered one of the best multirole fighter aircraft ever built, and the F-35 looks like it's on its way to being the next generation of that once we really start to see them in action.
I was one that heard nothing but problems, until I started researching last year and discovered how insanely incredible the F-35 is. Absolute game changer!
I can only imagine that the R&D phase of this amazing machine, was an endless process of solving one engineering challenge and inadvertently creating another. It is the aviation equivalent of the Bugatti Veyron, engineered to meet set performance requirements. It is a testament of humanity’s ability to overcome challenges in achieving goals.
Yes there is more advanced stuff being developed. However don't overestimate how advanced it is. There are two big things that are overlooked when speculating about military tech. First, is that most of the tech used by the military is civilian developed, usually by research universities and labs. Sure the particular military application of the technology is often novel to the military but the core underlying principles governing it are not. Second manufacturing is the most challenging part not design. Many technologies exist that we don't use; not because they wouldn't be useful but because they are just too hard to make at scale (yet). This also means that the most top secret technologies the military hold are the ways that the equipment is manufactured rather than the idea for the equipment itself. You can easily see this in videos like Smarter Every Day's tour of the ULA rocket factory. The most prominent thing they censored was a tool head on a fabrication machine. Yet all the parts of the rocket can be seen in plane sight. When you keep that in mind its easy to see how the secret stuff we don't know isn't actually that diffrent than what we do know when it comes to the types of technology involved. It's just the particular flavor of execution thats hidden.
Yes it's called NGAD, the first 6th Gen fighter it will be in production later this decade with an estimated cost of several hundred million per plane. NGAD seats up to 3 pilots, has 100 times more stealth than the F35, controls a fleet of drones and uses lazer weapons, it is a dual engine design capable of Mach 3-4cruising. Based on this leaked information, NGAD is more of a Spaceship than a jet
@@nocare I see the point you're getting at, but by the same logic one could argue that the F-35 isn't all that advanced because it's based on principles which were discovered just after the turn of last century by civilians. It's just the manufacturing techniques which are advanced. :) It kind of feels like arguing a distinction without a difference, at least as far as the layperson is concerned. As a similar example, there have been a multitude of applications for lasers and IR-frequency energy sources in civilian and military service for many decades now but as far as the vast majority of the population is concerned, such things are still basically magic. Which makes the "particular flavor of execution" required to put directed-energy weapons/countermeasures into 6th Gen fighters seem like straight up Sci-Fi. I've been deeply interested in military and civilian aviation since I was a young teen, and some of it sounds like straight up Sci-Fi even to me. And this is just hardware I'm talking about, haven't even touched on all the Code Magic going on inside the many black boxes. :)
Although I did extensive research about this aircraft, I still got to learn more throughout this video. The information-gathering team of this channel is incredible. Huge shoutout to the animation team too.
@@justinstrong9595 "I learned something here" "Then you must have been basically uninformed before" What an embarrassingly reductive, presumptuous and asinine take. I'm almost impressed by how you could get so pedantic to the point of coming across as genuinely dense, you absolute grey matter deficient killjoy. Wow.
I've always been fascinated with the X-15, and this is one of the best work-ups I've seen, on all the engineering challenges they had to overcome. The ways they did it are so ingenious, and well-represented, here -- thanks for this, I truly enjoyed it.
I didn't think it was possible because I'm a huge plane nerd, but you actually taught me a lot of new things about the F35. Thanks, I really enjoyed it.
3d renders can be mighty impressive.. but that doesn't help at all with the beyond absurd list of category 1 flaws aka UNFIXABLE and DEADLY alone that fatramys have.. Not to mention even the USAF with the idiot fanbois and retiring staff LHM has promised cushy jobs out the wazoo has had to admit that the 35 is a total FAILURE..
Hats off to your animator/animation team, the quality of their work is truly impressive and it's amazing to see how your channel has evolved over time. Keep up the great work!
This is one of the best UA-cam videos I have ever seen. The production value, vast wealth of information presented, and the way you delivered that information were all absolutely top notch!
Its not a youtube vid, its corporate sponsored promotional advisement. Welcome to the wonderful world of the pharma arms and informational complex that is this society.
@@strikewave1918 lol, the correct question would be, what is the militarily industrial complex and how is it intricately connected to the rest of the major institutes and entities in the world resulting in a complete hegemony ? Considering the recent economic workings FED actions etc etc, you should be having a hunch right about now unless you are still 16 and havent experienced enough to realize.
What is amazing to me is what information and engineering of this plane is still classified. This is a very informative and in depth video. It boggles the mind to consider what we still don't know about the F35.
I once did some service work on a gas detection system at one end of a hanger at Williamtown RAAF base north of Sydney, home of No. 81 Wing which operates the F-35. Australia was just starting to receive them from the states at the time, and at the other end of the hanger was some kind of facility operated by the local arm of Lockheed. Two 40ft containers with some hefty power cables and aircon units, various workstations up against the back wall and semi-concealed from view, piles of heavily secured crates. All of it behind two rows of chain-link fencing with some fairly unfriendly looking blokes standing guard. We were escorted of course, and we were strongly advised not to wander too far in that direction when coming/going from the bathroom, not to talk to anyone who might be coming or going from over there, and to avoid even looking over that way too much lest somebody get the wrong idea. Needless to say, my curiosity was aroused but I did exactly what I was told!
@@brahmburgers remember. to be a threat you need intent, Capability and access if we give them all the info. they will marvel at it. but they can't make it if we give them the plane. they have capaility but no intent to do us harm but also no access to make it. they still need the US and Lockeed to make it. so someone like russia might have access and Intent, but Building something like this is FARRR beyond them. so we sell the plane to our allies. keep the Details from everyone else. and Never give the plane to our enemies. you also forget the timeline on these things. the f35 is 10 Years old at this point. in 10 years where do you think defence tech has moved the goal is to stay ahead. so china russia might have 2-10 of their own. but they are building them on the bleeding edge of what they can do. and they can't make alot of them.. the US on the other hand. to the MIC the speed at which they can build these jets is nothing short of amazing.
@@brahmburgers If the intelligence agencies of adversarial nation states have to rely on youtubers just to find publicly available information the US has nothing to worry about lol.
This video is by far the best military tech video I’ve seen. It has the perfect combination of real footage, animations, and diagrams. I learned about capabilities I never knew exited before - like that radar missile countermeasure. I also liked how the explanation of the phased radar array included destructive interference so we could get an idea of the underlying physics. Overall all these details help you actually imagine how amazing using an F-35 would feel. Really appreciate all the work Real Engineering put into this one.
Getting the 'unparalleled' situational awarness with hud in the helmet is already an old technology that existed for decades now, a F16 pilots in the 90's could already lock AA targets just by looking at them. Datalink is also an old tech. Well most of the F35 techs are pretty old and overpriced... Did you said it was by far the best military tech you've seen ?
@@drafura No I said it’s the best military tech VIDEO I’ve seen. I was praising the information presented by Real Engineering, not trying to start a childish debate about which fighter plane sucks, like you are. Learn to read!
Jokes on you Russia. This video is actually an insanely well produced and highly effective counterintelligence ploy. The reality is that the real F35B runs on magic and no one has the foggiest how it actually works. Maintenance mainly consists of middnight rituals and sacrificies to its machine spirit.
The B variant is a technological marvel. The fact that the A variant is now coming in below cost estimates is also amazing given the planes capabilities.
We often don't appreciate how crazy the F-35B is. All you have to do is take one look at the X-32 to see just how difficult it is to do all the things the F-35B was expected to do.
When the f-22 first came out, it could have been called overkill. Little did we know lockheed martin had someone holding 35 of their beers that whole time
This video, I believe, ranks up there with your best! Your research coupled with the exceptional graphics pushes this essay into the top tier of F-35 videos. Nice work!
This is insanely incredible! You should be very proud of what you’ve done with this channel and the team you’ve surrounded yourself with! The animations and infographics coupled with the well-researched explanations is so incredibly well done, you guys are providing unprecedented informative content that realizes goals youtube never even thought about. You guys are internet’s priceless content creators!
@@brahmburgers don’t worry about it, any country that could pose the threat of building anything 1/10 of the capability already has much much more info about the plane than this or any public video or dataset. Their problem isn’t only information, but also engineering and production capabilities
I’ve been waiting for this. What a fantastic video and great explanations for really very complicated topics. If i was to nit pick on anything in the video it is the lack of mentions of the names of different systems on the jet itself, and maybe just the pronounciations of some of the stuff mentioned in the video, like the F-117 as F one seventeen and F-135 as F one thirty five. Brilliant stuff from you guys as always. This warms my Air Force heart truly.
I just can't say it enough, this channel has the best in-depth entertaining engineering related videos I've came across up to this point! Huge respect!
I didn't think I'd ever see anything as impressive as the Harrier Jump Jet hovering, then the vertical landing and its short take off, too. However, this thing has truly blown my mind -- kudos. It's absolutely stunning, too. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
what is music to me is the C17 and hearing the Pratt & Whitney's grown as their harmonic balance is pushed to the limit up their approach to landing at Andrews. Dream all you want. It is still propulsion. Cage go in the water. Shark in the water. Our Shark.
@@ruthnoya8424 I saw the British precision harrier flying group practice at the airfield where I was stationed. They ripped the piss out of our apron but we loved it.
Could you imagine a medieval king seeing this video? After having just mandated, say, a row of catapults to be built, or a few ships? It's insane how far our military technology has gone. A single one of these F-35s could defeat an entire medieval kingdom easily.
"A single one of these F-35s could defeat an entire medieval kingdom easily." Except they only hold four missiles and can't fly more than a few hours without refueling.
@@wisenber Except against an enemy that has nonexistent anti-air it can carry more bombs than an A-10 by using wing pylons. And stop liking your own comments.
@@brilobox2 "it can carry more bombs than an A-10 by" Which makes up to 12 and a couple of hours of flight time prior to refuel. Maybe you could ask the kingdom to all pile close enough together to make it easier for a few 500 lb bombs to wipe them out? "And stop liking your own comments." Stop pretending I did.
@@wisenber Medieval kingdoms are far smaller and weaker than the ancient empires that preceded them. All you have to do is assasinate a couple families, demonstrate your very real command over a litteral flying metallic dragon and Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt; presto! Want to keep what you conquered though? Yeh, probably want to get at them shales and quarries pronto!
My dad has worked on all versions of this JSF ("joint strike fighter" versions F-35 A, B, and C) its awesome to see how he talked about it and now here in this video
Wow,you all did some obsurd amount of homework, simply unbelievable and unheard of thru a youtube platform, I don't even know how you got some serious indepth information, and then the visual effects and graphics layered throughout is a serious feat,and the narrator has the perfect pitch and tone! It's awesome guys,bravo,it's crazy good!
@@volvo09 that was what I was thinking while watching this video. If this is what is put out in the public, the classified tech must be way more insane!
The F-35B has now become my favorite jet not just because of it's aesthetic but also because of it's engineering. Internalizing the weapon systems was a smart move. And I didn't know till I saw this video that this plane can ACTUALLY hover like a helicopter. I only thought it was possible in the Avengers movie. I was surprised that it was real. Only if every other plane had this hoverability.
It’s been the most maligned of the 3 variants but may become the most valuable. With Marine Littoral regiments they can spread F-35B’s all across the Philippines and keep China contained within the first island chain.
I know Im not even anywhere close to an engineer or even engineering student. But the vertical take off and landing immediately reminded me of marvel movies too. I can't even imagine how useful that is. Not to mention the other areas where the technology could be applied in the future. Its like Im living in the future.
Amazing plane for sure, but it didn't feel as revolutionnary to me as the F22 or the B2. The VTOL and head mounted display were quite revolutionnary for sure.
My curiosity got fired up when F35B lightning II was showcased in India airshow. I was aware that this is most advanced fighter jet to date. That is all to it. Your video gave clean insight into it's capabilities. Wonderful video .The narration was lucid void technical jargons for a layman.
The Royal Navy's Queen Elizabeth class carriers use the F35B. They are one of the larger Carrier classes in the world, and was designed around the F35B. It is only in its earliest iteration at the moment, and yet this formidable capability is already starting to grow and has been in action already. Not perfect yet, but a gigantic step in the right direction.
Vectored thrust for vertical takeoff is a complete waste and renders the aircraft useless. The AV-8 Harriet never lived up to anything, it was a fatal joker. Why waste all that capacity to take off from a small deck: stupid! The tax payers are being fleeces again. The future is in autonomous drones, missile and Lazer technology. The human borne fighter is a thing of the past.
Impressive! This video on the F-35 is truly exceptional. While others merely touch on the subject, it delves into intricate details of the aircraft's mechanics.
Why do I get the feeling that the depth of information available on this technology is only possible because the technology of the next generation aircraft make these technological marvels obsolete?
Best video I've ever seen concerning F35. Props to you all. I can Imagine how much time it took to make but I was constantly hoping the video to be longer.
I'm so glad the F-35 is finally getting the love it deserves from all corners of the internet. It's a fantastic airframe and the data fusion technology it boasts is truly game-changing.
@@superhenkable Because it links the data the F-35 receives from its own systems and shares it seamlessly with other assets in the AO. For one example, the US has already run a test where a PATRIOT air defense missile system was able to fire a missile and hit a target that it could not see with its own radar because there was an F-35 that WAS able to see it with its radar and send the data in real time to the PATRIOT. Another application is the F-35 doing much the same with aerial assets. For instance, the new F-15EX is what's called a "missile truck". It isn't stealthy, but it can carry far more missiles than the F-35 can. What the F-35 can do is fly ahead of the F-15EX into airspace the F-15 would not be able to survive in, designate targets, send the data to the F-15, which can then fire its entire payload and score kills even though its own radar cannot actually see what it is firing at. The missiles will fly true because the F-35's radar is linked into their data system and is guiding them to target. A final application is close on the horizon with the Loyal Wingman program the US is developing. Basically, it allows the F-35 to function as an entire squadron. It serves as the controller for an entire formation of combat UAVs it flies with. These UAVs carry their own munitions that the F-35 pilot can fire at whatever target they chose, and the drones will even maneuver to take a missile for the F-35 that it cannot evade or spoof. This also allows the F-35 to be far more versatile, as the UCAVs will be able to carry a mix of both anti-air and anti-ground munitions. So yeah, those are all revolutions in how aerial warfare will play out going forward and I haven't even scratched the surface. But no other plane on Earth has those capabilities.
This channel never ceases to impress. Even documentaries made by big companies rarely achieve this level of production quality. Glad I subscribed to this channel. If I may suggest a topic I would love to see covered; a video about the insane engineering of the F22 Raptor would be amazing.
The F-35B was technically the most challenging variant to design. Its nothing short of a miracle that Lockheed pulled it off. They had many problems with too much weight but they somehow did it
Love these kinds of videos. I really enjoyed the content, along with the in-depth analysis and the animations. Keep up the great work! So much fun to watch
Learning about all this high tech equipment really makes me curious what they have that we don't know about yet, probably mind destroying stuff because this stuff is already mind blowing
Man, so many comments confused about government spending. We dont need to choose between an advanced military and universal healthcare. We are already spending enough money on healthcare, we just need to stop money bleeding from the system in the form of profits to private companies.
Phase arrays do also emit a lot of noise, you can not cancel all directions but get more like a "fanning" set of beams, where one is the strongest and rest fall in the intensity. When it comes to the receiver, it sees a beam but what actually happens is that we send a lot of stuff, all around.
In effect the enemy knows you're coming from a certain direction but can't pinpoint your exact location. It's like being approached by swarm of decoys with no real idea of which is the true threat.
@@blakebrown534 But the hopping happens across relatively small band, it is not going from megahertz to kilohertz to gigahertz, but for ex, 500MHz to 510Mhz.
At first I almost dismissed this video as I thought it was going to be targeted for the new people to stealth and aviation.. However, even following with a "keen eye" on stealth and aviation period, I kept watching... I have to say.. This is by far the best video for someone who isn't an engineer or, maybe you are, and can speak human too) I have ever read... You / this channel (or whoever is scripting this) have a true knack in explaining things to pretty much most of the people that care to know something on not just the F-35(b) but on radar, REAL stealth technology (at least as far as I know)... I'm honestly quick to talk smack on YT or even in person if I think they are full of it.. I'm absolutely impressed with all of this and will be sharing it with even my childhood friend, who happens to be a Commander based in the UK now.. He is also a test pilot.. He flies everything they can get our / their hands on.. Harriers to helicopters... I asked him if he had flown the F-35.. He laughed and said the helmets are too expensive, and they already know exactly what they can do. Me being a hard core F-22 fan once scoffed at the F-35.. What is lost on most people is there is NO dogfighting outside of 2nd or 3rd world countries that will ever happen again.. The fusion in networking, along with the stealth is where it is at... He clearly said their will likely not be a single person in an airframe within the next generation. "Humans are the weak link".. Computers don't care about G's... Again, sorry for the winding road response.. Just an overall excellent video..
Stealth does not work. The Air Force and Lockheed Martin are lying to you my man. And if you think a F35 pilot is going to give you an unbiased review of this dog you are crazy. Telling the truth would end their careers.
Another beautiful technical explanation. That phase array antenna/noise cancelling infographic was the best. As with all animations, love that engine. I am a mechanical engineer that deals with mass and cg! Love learning more about aerodynamics any day! 😁
The quality of this video and its content is so outstanding I had to write a comment for the first time in years. The animations were fascinating to watch! Thank you!
Wow! This is really a good video about the F-35. All others say the same things without going into details in how things work. Hats off to you sir, for your extensive research and for bringing new, interesting information that shows the crazy engineering these airplanes have.
Worked for 3 years on radar absorbing material, especially with nanotubes, in particular MWCNT. Was amazing the first time we measured in Band-Ku as well...
10:54 Huh, I never would have thought of that. My understanding of the crease in the nose was always that it acted as a sort of blank return spot, where it wouldn't return any waves since there wasn't an edge perpendicular to the incoming signal (like you can see with the arrow pointing left at 10:50). Interesting to learn that radar waves can travel around surfaces too, not just over them.
the crease also serves another purpose, which wasn't mentioned in this video - generating vortices that will interact with vortices from the intake edge and the vortices from the leading edge. This greatly enhances performance in the high alpha envelopes and therefore reflective LERX or canards are pretty much not needed. Northrop found this by accident when they first tested Malaysian RF-5Es with the special nose. The F-22 also exploits this.
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China said thank you so much 😂 if you could make a Chinese version it would be great help😅
@@ikea7739 I had an idea for a flying aircraft carrier for this jet!!
F-35 need xa100 engine for 203M dollars.
@@cladarreonbattle3587 My flying aircraft carrier is a blimp. It runs on a hybrid of solar and jet engines. I designed it to be as fast and effeicent as possible! But what would it be without weapons It's fully armed with Cannons, Anti aircraft missiles, and Flares!!
@@cladarreonbattle3587 It's a solar hybrid blimp It's designed specificly for this jet!!
Props to your animator/animation team, it‘s insane to see how the channel developed over time
Totally
I actually miss the blueprint explanation sometimes 🥲
Absolutely I was here before 10K subs
I honestly couldn't tell whether some of the CGI was real or not.
The animation of all the fans twisting and turning was perfection.
And your team even used nice touches such as depth of field in some of the scenes that could have easily just been a flat 2D graphic.
This makes me want to get back into doing 3d.
Are you saying that all the animations were done by Real Engineering, and not taken from the manufacturer? If so it’s quite impressive 👍
A friend of mine is a mechanic in the Royal Navy. When they bought their F-35s from America, they sent a squad of mechanics to learn how to maintain the jets, and he was one of them. Currently he has been deployed over there for over 5 years and they still have more to learn, this jet is no joke.
Too expensive to maintain compared to competitors. Also reliability issues (due to its complexity).
well... modern jets are not like the F14s or even F4s of that eras... everything is just a lot more complex... and classified too...
@@AnotherSpaceCowBoy no not really, they are cheaper by the day, cheaper than Gripen now
@@AnotherSpaceCowBoy the plane alone is now down to 75mil$ USD per jet for the USA and about 78-83mil for partner development countries for the A model.
Btw the gripen E is about 83 to 88 mil for the plane alone.
Last i checked the the F15 EX is in the same range.
Yes some details require more attention.
@@AnotherSpaceCowBoy this is what happens when people listen to the media without their pwn research. if you ha done you research you would knw that becuase this fighter is so popular this has ineviebaly drastically reduced its maintenance costs. as of right now it probably one of the most cost effective options for its battlefield control.
The engineering in this one plane alone is a testament to how brilliant human intelligence can be.
Isn’t it a shame that all that ingenuity and resources are poured into a weapon of war.
@@CptSpears007 I used to think the same until I understood sometimes it's necessary just for the appearance; that if a certain country decides to mess with us they know they can get destroyed so they'd rather not and keep the peace, unlike if the USA seemed defenseless.
@@CptSpears007 Weapons have always been the focus of human ingenuity
@Hasbulla it took us thousands of years
@@josephoduor2358 Americans probably jack off to the idea of being attacked
I worked on the design and manufacture of both the 3 bearing swivel duct system, and the actuators for opening the lift fan doors. What a piece of technology it is! It caused us nightmares in the early development, but it pushed the boundaries of engineering and was a privilege to work on.
The fact they can not just engineer this, but actually manufacture it at scale is insane.
The solution to these problems is infinite money
@@VincentHondius the US military budget...
@@BilalAhmad-ff3xq which is fueled by infinite amounts of money
And it now costs less per unit than older 4th generation fighters like the Eurofighter or F-15EX.
@@AirShark95 gotta keep countries supplied with American arms even if it loses money
As an aerospace engineering student, this video is incredible. Not only your team is able to break down all the technical details into just a 20 min video, the animation is absolutely stunning
Nice! Stick with it. As a current aerospace engineer and former student who has worked in the industry now for fifteen years, I appreciate the insane amount of work that you are going through right now. Trust me, it will all be worth it!
I am as well 😂. Good luck for the end of your studies we'll go through it 😁
same,
good luck bro
enjoy it while you can because you'll all be replace by ME's
Russian and Chinese copycats: 😃✍📃
The 3D modelling and animations are incredible, absolutely love it
2nd to none!
Yeah , so informative an accurate 😂plain with operational radius just over 1000 km flies in Russia aerospace for 6000 , and not even planing to turn back home …
@@dmitriyskvortsov9650 You ok bro? seems a little rough with English, what are you trying to say?
Its pretty nice, but i wouldnt say incredible. The 3D model is quite low poly and they didnt bother re-meshing it so they can subdivide for the close-up shots, so lots of visible polygons. The textures are also wrong, there are decals that say "NO STOP" when infact they should say "NO STEP". Still, way above youtube quality average ;)
@@dmitriyskvortsov9650 where's your Su-35's in Ukraine? Cope russian bot
Thanks!
The radar jamming string thing reminds me of a technique the allies used to avoid sound guided torpedoes in WW2. They just basically just tied a big speaker (or some sort of sound emitter) to a cable on the ship that reached some distance behind it when thrown, so the torpedo would just follow that instead of the ship. They basically rendered a state of the art high end piece of military equipment useless with just a speaker and some string
I believe this is the stuff you're referring to.
ua-cam.com/video/AeQDavfoLYk/v-deo.html
Sounds like something the British did tbh
Same thing as flares against traditional heat seeking missiles pretty much.
If I remember correctly, it was simpler than a speaker. They were just some metal bars that would clang together to produce noise as they were dragged through the water behind the ship.
If the movie “Greyhound” is accurate, it looks like German U-boats used a similar technique. This video is showing A LOT more capabilities of this plane, A LOT MORE, than I’ve seen anywhere else! They are great capabilities, but that radar jammer that the pilot can reel out is about the most crazy thing I couldn’t even begin to imagine a jet fighter having! So my next question is, once deployed, can the pilot reel it back in?
I'm a jet plane fanatic and have probably viewed a hundred videos on stealth planes including the F-35. I have never commented on any of them, but wanted to give you a high thumbs up for such an excellent presentation that was not only enjoyable to watch but tremendously informative! I'm very informed on the subject of stealth and yet I learned much watching your video. This is saying a lot! Your video was concise, precise, entertaining, and relevant allowing both the novice viewer and expert to stay glued to your topic the entire time. Keep up the excellent work!
Can you answer in more detail?
Don’t encourage him.
@@GardenGuy1942 wym lol
Lol
It seems you may not be as well informed as you had thought xD
that avoidance mechanism for radar tracking missiles is crazy!
And simple ideas as well, amazing
@@AlanTheBeast100 oh shut the hell up
@@AlanTheBeast100 Ok grampa
@@AlanTheBeast100 You need help go and see someone before it's too late.
@@AlanTheBeast100 let them be enthusiastic, you are adding nothing by spewing this garbage
Remember a decade ago?
"Can't turn, can't fight, can't run"
All bullshit. Turns out it's actually the most incredible aircraft ever. Oops.
and underrated
I could talk options that make it look Red Baron. and I'm not talking pizza Sherlock
aerospace is approached like cancer cures, tweaking where the budget left off
It doesn't get the funny trading card numbers, but it turns out the most important stuff happens to be the things people find too boring to put on the trading cards. Like, actually knowing who the heck is shooting at you
The problem is they have had to spend over a decade fixing it.
It's like comparing a release day AAA videogame that can barely function and has a mountain of laughable problems to one that's been out for 5 years and received about 5,000 patches. It's in fine shape now - great even - but it sure wasn't the case at launch.. it's the No Man's Sky of aircraft.
You have done your homework. These features are hidden within the deepest of interviews and only touched in hour + long videos. However you’re able to do it so clearly, quickly, and in such quantity, that not only is this plane impressive , but this is video is. Great Job.
He explained it so well Russia and China should use it as an introduction to stealth aircraft! I learned a lot I thought I would never know. Fantastic and entertaining
@@Greg-yu4ij I mean this is all Public knowledge. And even if they do manage to reverse engineer the f-35, it’s one thing to design something and make a prototype out of it. It’s a totally different thing to be able to mass manufacture it like the US.
@ElodieFiorella oh yeah the Chinese will never get our paint recipes... NOT. Only one guy I know of ever tried to stop them stealing all our secrets. The rest take their money
except he doesn't bring up a single negative point. like the massive production cost, 3x of any fighter before it. or that it's worse at every single task compared to a dedicated plane for that function.
@@Greg-yu4ij Seeing how the Soviets (a fella named Ufimtsev) did all the research on radar vs stealth in the 60s that we are still using today, the challenge is not building one exhibit. Building and maintaining fleets is hard.
This dude is so talented. The way he breaks down incredibly complicated technology into digestible content is truly a gift.
I agree. Smart man who puts in real work. Great presentation skills!
He is just reciting the tech info that is no longer classified.
@@jqmachgunner2577 That's kind of harsh, don't you think?
@@Roughdog86 It is a good presentation of old non-claasified derails. They did leave out the latest non-classified additions for the F-22 and F-35.
@@jqmachgunner2577 well what do you expect you dork, ya think he's gonna start spouting off classified specs about the F-35? Use your brain.
I learned something new. The F-35 uses MADL. I actually worked on MADL in the early 2000's. I knew that it was supposed to be in the F-35, but I left the company before finding out if it was ever actually being used. Now I know that there is a little piece of me in every aircraft. Thanks.
That's awesome, you deserve to be proud of that!
That’s actually pretty sick tbh.. mind me asking what your role was in the dev of it?
A small part in history sounds pretty cool, good on you :)
5:18 love that shot of the B-2's inflight refuelling intake opening up
This is an incredibly well-made video. And I'm not just saying that as an F-35 fan. I worked at LM on 2 of the systems that go into it, thought I was pretty well-versed on the F-35, and I still learned things here. Great job.
Serious question - was YAK141 ever considered, taken as "inspirational" for this fighter jet? It was Russia first and world best (raw performance) JTOL abandoned since they had 2 aircratf carriers but only one was left to Russia one was given to Ukraine.. and they sold it to China. So Russia abandoned JTOL plans in favour of Su27/35. I cant resist to think F35 is mariage of F22 and YAK141.
@JoeTuber harrier jet came before it.
This wasn't russias first JTOL or VTOL wtf are you on about.
No the f35 did not take any inspiration. They are completely different.
"But my side intakes!!!"
"But the way it uses thrust on the side!"
Wow thats crazy, not the the first side by side intake jet and completely different thrust systems.
@@KabelkowyJoe Lockheed was the financial backer for the Yak-141 program, when it was shutdown, they took inspiration and experience with them for the X/F-35. it not a copy but Lockheed improve upon it, all the similarity is the VTOL that is similar but not the same.
THIS. This is the content I want from UA-cam, Nebula, Curiosity Stream, whatever.
Great visuals, great narration, respect for the viewer's intelligence.
Wonderful work here!
From basic white and blue blueprints to realistic 3D models has been an incredible journey as I watch through your videos. The level of quality and information in your initial videos were already high tier. It's amazing how far you've gone since I started with your t34 video. Excited for more videos!
Somehow the F35 has the ability to go off the radar to the point where the US government cannot find it
It's stealth is so good
yea, they have to add small bumps onto the jet so that it can be tracked
@@hoangdaniel4433imagine being so good that you have to be handicapped just so your maker can track you, now that's a great airplane
they left a couple of airtags in, just in case
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02:05 Radar Range & Radar Gap
03:17 Tailless Design
03:23 V Tail Design
04:58 Upper Surface Intake
05:21 Low Pressure Air
06:03 Boundary Layer
06:33 Boundary Layer Diverter
06:47 Diverterless Supersonic Intake
07:38 Signal Strength vs Edge L
07:41 Serration
08:03 Telescopic Ladder Hatch
08:10 Hatches
08:18 Flare Dispenser
08:38 Decoy
09:33 Radar Scattering Tape
10:48 Cylinder Radar Signature
11:07 Nose Cone Shape
11:19 Largest Hatch
12:50 Shaft Power
13:05 Swivel Nozzle
14:31 Visualization
14:53 Roll Nozzles
15:04 Guide Vanes
16:21 Exhaust Speed vs Top Speed
16:58 Lift Fan Weight
17:53 Head Mounted Display
19:05 Radar Antenna
21:09 Radar Position
21:50 MADL
No info about EOTS, DAS and WAD
You can find another great animation about F-35B on SYG DESIGNWORKS
That's all?
00:00 intro :)
You know its a useless timestamp list when they're barely a minute apart at the longest.
@@sleazymeezy It is a nice list of featured features though.
May i know what WAD is?
Seeing the F35A Demonstration Team do two demonstrations at Oshkosh was one of my favorite parts of AirVenture 2022. It's an amazing jet!
One was F-35a and one was a F-35c
I wish I could have been there for that.
then why is the U.S. done with them? they're already phasing them out cause it still has all kinds of problems. colossal waste of money.
Same I got to see Major "Beowulf" demonstrate the F-35A at the 2022 Andrew's Air Expo. I knew it was a badass plane but watching her pitch the plane up and slow to "less than 80mph" (which is what I think the announcer said) was an awe inspiring moment.
More like the insanely bad engineering of the F-35B
I think it's worth calling out how incredible it is that the F-35 can take off from an assault ship with a 258m deck. For comparison, a WW2 Essex class carrier (like the USS Yorktown) had a flight deck of 262m. So, this aircraft is capable of operating from ships smaller than WW2 carriers. Amazing.
Basically any ship with a helicopter deck can be retrofit to launch one of the most advanced stealth fighters in existence.
which allows the US to build more small carriers and have an even more flexible Navy.
@FabrisFanatic So you mean aircraft could launch just fine from carriers that were only 4m longer back in the WW2 days and NOT need multi-billion dollar engines to make them behave like helicopters so they could?
@@plica06 it’s the landing that they will use the hover for more. Allowing decks to be free for other planes launching .
@@plica06 Pretty sure that the VTOL technology is what allows it to take off from a 258m deck. 13:30
How is it that I can be a pacifist and yet find that when well explained, the subject of advanced engineering fighter jets like the F-35, is absolutely unmissable?
I have followed your channel for a long time and your ability to make a subject scientifically relevant and yet fascinating, is unmatched.
Please keep these great presentations coming.
As an F-35A Crew Chief, I gotta say y'all did a decent job. Just wait a few decades until they start declassifying more about this jet maybe like 40-50 years, then you'll be really blown away. If they do that is...
You are now being followed by all of China!!!! Do not read this comment or all your classified information will be sent to China, North Korea, Russia, and more!!!!! lol
By 40 or 50 years the Ai will have instructed the jets to kill us all.
@CockOfJustice lmfao. You'll have to wait just like everybody else. There's information that even those of us working in these jets are not privy to.
How's the mpg compared to a Camry?
@@literallyhuman5990 less
I've never heard so much information on how stealth works. It feels like I just got a security clearance and am allowed to hear classified information. This is very cool.
Yeah, I was wondering where he got all these information from, it's amazing all that is known if u know where to look!
@@dragonfire2371 this is just information that is publicly available. The plane has much more advance concepts that makes it as stealthy and advanced and that is well protected. The serrations are widely known, the paint composition is a secret and the software and IOT that makes this plane shine are well hidden.
What's made public now is what was cutting edge 20 years ago. You better believe that the real cutting edge tech of today is well hidden... in plain sight.
I worked for DAARPA for a bit after my Naval Career. I feel like i just recieved a TOP SECRET, CODE WORD, Numbered release EYES ONLY briefing in the Basement of the Pentagons Missing Ring Quiet Rooms.
Is this the professional diving F35?
Finally, a worthy video about the f-35. Thank you so much for making this! I've watched every serious f-35 video on UA-cam as well as all the bootleg ones, and this is by far the best one I've ever viewed. It's actually the first time I'm hearing about the sensor that's deployed through fiber optic cable too. Avoid missile detection. Outstanding video. Your effort is really appreciated
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ 500/100 Absolutely RIGHT! I agree with text 500%
One of the videos from Binkov's Battlegrounds mentioned the towed decoy (though the first of his videos to bring up the subject said that the F-35 didn't have one - a weakness compared to 4th generation jet fighters)
I watched a F35 flying around Hill Air force base yesterday when I was up that way. Flying low and fast doing barrel rolls. It was sweet! People up there are completely zoned out to them though, its hilarious.
only the upper 10% are able to perceive the technology -define intelligencia
It's really funny how there was a group of high ranking officers trying to cut down the project for being "too expensive, unnecessarily complicated, unreliable and useless" compared to already existing, cheaper and rugged planes, like the F-15. Don't forget the "iT CaN't dOGfIghT" argument.
Yes, I'm talking about the reformers.
Also, notice that all in this video is declassified information and it's still jaw dropping, imagine the classified capabilities of the F-35 and how outstanding it must be.
yes, but keeping the 4th gen jets on the side, which have a much smaller cost per flight hour and higher availability is a good option when you don't operate in a very contested airspace like Irak. The F35 is of course a lot ahead of these though.
@@filippopotame3579looking forward, I think most of our wars are going to be in contested airspace. China specifically.
Having a plane that is so driven by stealth and situational awareness is what's going to keep it relevant long term, not how tight of a circle it can turn.
And then when the F-15 came out they were saying it's "unnecessary" and "overcomplicated". Man, the fighter jets Mafia is hilarious.
It would have been cheaper...
But, like all aircraft, every delivery breeds more requirements.
This many units, at this capability, is this price. When you ask for more development, on a finished product, the cost skyrockets. The whole design has to be broke down, re-optimzed, and most times drastic changes must be made to support the new requirements.
Add in another 5000-20000 manhours of the best engineers, trying to make it all fit, finding out, if we put this here, that goes bad.
Now your coffee pot adds 5 miles of wire, 1000 more connections, sub assemblies must be redesigned, the manufacturing procces gets overhauled, again, another 20000 manhours at the highest level. 1000000's of man hours trickle down, material costs are boundless.
What does it cost to design and forge a bulkhead? What about five versions so grandad can have his coffee pot, and a lighted shave mirror?
Oh now it costs more so we want less. Economy of scale is killed at every opportunity. Unit cost goes up.
Turns out we need a sink to service the coffee pot, and shave mirror, wait, don't we need a razor holder???
Now it costs more, so we want less units...
There's a reason why Chinese military simulators used to develop their own technology just sets American equipment to "practically invincible" and then they go from there.
The amount of work that went into the production of these detailed renders must be insane! Props to the creators behind this channel🎉
they have 2 MILLION views. They are a actual company. It's not a small team. The creators just do research at this point.
I'm old enough to remember this plane being hated by 'online specialists'. It's good to see it getting the love it deserves. It's a wonderful piece of engineering and also a beautiful bird.
Not sure what this has to do with age. It has always been hated by "online specialists" to this very day. You will still find people who say its a waste of money and complete trash.
Some will never learn.
The F-16 had a turbulent and drawn out development cycle too as they kept adding more things they expected it to do. Thankfully for the F-16, it wasn't developed during the time of the internet so the hate piling was far less obvious. Now it's considered one of the best multirole fighter aircraft ever built, and the F-35 looks like it's on its way to being the next generation of that once we really start to see them in action.
f35 can't fly during thunderstorms and it's a Jack of all trades master of none this thing is doomed to fail in combat just wait
old sub tech eh
I was one that heard nothing but problems, until I started researching last year and discovered how insanely incredible the F-35 is. Absolute game changer!
I can only imagine that the R&D phase of this amazing machine, was an endless process of solving one engineering challenge and inadvertently creating another. It is the aviation equivalent of the Bugatti Veyron, engineered to meet set performance requirements. It is a testament of humanity’s ability to overcome challenges in achieving goals.
Just as David Attenborough is my voice of Natural History, Brian has become my voice of Engineering. Such a great channel with top quality content.
Russia will smoke these hunks of junk
Cringe
What i find amazing here is that, if this information is public, there must already be something much more advanced being developed or already in use.
Yes NGAD and FAXX Air force and Navy new 6th Gen planes are being worked on as we speak and the F22 program has been canceled and will retire
@@rosevitelli5814 what i'd give to test one of these things
Yes there is more advanced stuff being developed.
However don't overestimate how advanced it is.
There are two big things that are overlooked when speculating about military tech. First, is that most of the tech used by the military is civilian developed, usually by research universities and labs. Sure the particular military application of the technology is often novel to the military but the core underlying principles governing it are not.
Second manufacturing is the most challenging part not design.
Many technologies exist that we don't use; not because they wouldn't be useful but because they are just too hard to make at scale (yet). This also means that the most top secret technologies the military hold are the ways that the equipment is manufactured rather than the idea for the equipment itself.
You can easily see this in videos like Smarter Every Day's tour of the ULA rocket factory. The most prominent thing they censored was a tool head on a fabrication machine. Yet all the parts of the rocket can be seen in plane sight.
When you keep that in mind its easy to see how the secret stuff we don't know isn't actually that diffrent than what we do know when it comes to the types of technology involved. It's just the particular flavor of execution thats hidden.
Yes it's called NGAD, the first 6th Gen fighter it will be in production later this decade with an estimated cost of several hundred million per plane. NGAD seats up to 3 pilots, has 100 times more stealth than the F35, controls a fleet of drones and uses lazer weapons, it is a dual engine design capable of Mach 3-4cruising. Based on this leaked information, NGAD is more of a Spaceship than a jet
@@nocare I see the point you're getting at, but by the same logic one could argue that the F-35 isn't all that advanced because it's based on principles which were discovered just after the turn of last century by civilians. It's just the manufacturing techniques which are advanced. :)
It kind of feels like arguing a distinction without a difference, at least as far as the layperson is concerned. As a similar example, there have been a multitude of applications for lasers and IR-frequency energy sources in civilian and military service for many decades now but as far as the vast majority of the population is concerned, such things are still basically magic. Which makes the "particular flavor of execution" required to put directed-energy weapons/countermeasures into 6th Gen fighters seem like straight up Sci-Fi. I've been deeply interested in military and civilian aviation since I was a young teen, and some of it sounds like straight up Sci-Fi even to me. And this is just hardware I'm talking about, haven't even touched on all the Code Magic going on inside the many black boxes. :)
Although I did extensive research about this aircraft, I still got to learn more throughout this video. The information-gathering team of this channel is incredible. Huge shoutout to the animation team too.
You didn't do extensive research then. You just watched base level stuff.
@@justinstrong9595 "I learned something here"
"Then you must have been basically uninformed before"
What an embarrassingly reductive, presumptuous and asinine take. I'm almost impressed by how you could get so pedantic to the point of coming across as genuinely dense, you absolute grey matter deficient killjoy. Wow.
@@satelliteprime I'm not a killjoy retard, this video was full of the most baseline information on the F-35 you could possibly obtain.
@@justinstrong9595 Exactly
I've always been fascinated with the X-15, and this is one of the best work-ups I've seen, on all the engineering challenges they had to overcome. The ways they did it are so ingenious, and well-represented, here -- thanks for this, I truly enjoyed it.
that wasnt just insane engineering, that also was an insane, intimidating and super informative masterpiece of a video. So well done!!!
simp
Video was stupid good. Just.... stupid good.
I didn't think it was possible because I'm a huge plane nerd, but you actually taught me a lot of new things about the F35. Thanks, I really enjoyed it.
The ego on this guy
@tom billiard canvas. It was a canvas biplane.
also, without the an-2, there wouldn't have been the an-225.
well... "had been" now
I had no idea about the pod that deploys behind it
@@memelephant
Agreed ... wtf?
Never encountered that before.
why do you plane nerds always have to be so insufferable
I'm speechless. Amazing 3D renders, storytelling, and information. Keep up the awesome work! I'm definitely checking the bts footage from Nebula 👏👏👏
3d renders can be mighty impressive.. but that doesn't help at all with the beyond absurd list of category 1 flaws aka UNFIXABLE and DEADLY alone that fatramys have..
Not to mention even the USAF with the idiot fanbois and retiring staff LHM has promised cushy jobs out the wazoo has had to admit that the 35 is a total FAILURE..
Hats off to your animator/animation team, the quality of their work is truly impressive and it's amazing to see how your channel has evolved over time. Keep up the great work!
This is one of the best UA-cam videos I have ever seen. The production value, vast wealth of information presented, and the way you delivered that information were all absolutely top notch!
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Its not a youtube vid, its corporate sponsored promotional advisement. Welcome to the wonderful world of the pharma arms and informational complex that is this society.
@@febeomnibeepboop6367 promotional advertisment for what? the military? what does pharma have anything to do with it?
@@strikewave1918 lol, the correct question would be, what is the militarily industrial complex and how is it intricately connected to the rest of the major institutes and entities in the world resulting in a complete hegemony ?
Considering the recent economic workings FED actions etc etc, you should be having a hunch right about now unless you are still 16 and havent experienced enough to realize.
What is amazing to me is what information and engineering of this plane is still classified. This is a very informative and in depth video. It boggles the mind to consider what we still don't know about the F35.
I once did some service work on a gas detection system at one end of a hanger at Williamtown RAAF base north of Sydney, home of No. 81 Wing which operates the F-35.
Australia was just starting to receive them from the states at the time, and at the other end of the hanger was some kind of facility operated by the local arm of Lockheed. Two 40ft containers with some hefty power cables and aircon units, various workstations up against the back wall and semi-concealed from view, piles of heavily secured crates. All of it behind two rows of chain-link fencing with some fairly unfriendly looking blokes standing guard. We were escorted of course, and we were strongly advised not to wander too far in that direction when coming/going from the bathroom, not to talk to anyone who might be coming or going from over there, and to avoid even looking over that way too much lest somebody get the wrong idea. Needless to say, my curiosity was aroused but I did exactly what I was told!
I'm concerned that the USA's adversaries will garner too much info from a detailed video like this.
@@brahmburgers remember. to be a threat you need intent, Capability and access
if we give them all the info. they will marvel at it. but they can't make it
if we give them the plane. they have capaility but no intent to do us harm but also no access to make it. they still need the US and Lockeed to make it.
so someone like russia might have access and Intent, but Building something like this is FARRR beyond them.
so we sell the plane to our allies. keep the Details from everyone else. and Never give the plane to our enemies.
you also forget the timeline on these things. the f35 is 10 Years old at this point. in 10 years where do you think defence tech has moved the goal is to stay ahead. so china russia might have 2-10 of their own. but they are building them on the bleeding edge of what they can do. and they can't make alot of them.. the US on the other hand. to the MIC the speed at which they can build these jets is nothing short of amazing.
And if this is what we know, imagine what they have progressed to already that we don't know
@@brahmburgers If the intelligence agencies of adversarial nation states have to rely on youtubers just to find publicly available information the US has nothing to worry about lol.
This video is by far the best military tech video I’ve seen. It has the perfect combination of real footage, animations, and diagrams. I learned about capabilities I never knew exited before - like that radar missile countermeasure. I also liked how the explanation of the phased radar array included destructive interference so we could get an idea of the underlying physics. Overall all these details help you actually imagine how amazing using an F-35 would feel. Really appreciate all the work Real Engineering put into this one.
Getting the 'unparalleled' situational awarness with hud in the helmet is already an old technology that existed for decades now, a F16 pilots in the 90's could already lock AA targets just by looking at them. Datalink is also an old tech. Well most of the F35 techs are pretty old and overpriced... Did you said it was by far the best military tech you've seen ?
@@drafura No I said it’s the best military tech VIDEO I’ve seen. I was praising the information presented by Real Engineering, not trying to start a childish debate about which fighter plane sucks, like you are. Learn to read!
Jokes on you Russia. This video is actually an insanely well produced and highly effective counterintelligence ploy. The reality is that the real F35B runs on magic and no one has the foggiest how it actually works. Maintenance mainly consists of middnight rituals and sacrificies to its machine spirit.
I love this. Mostly because it’s 100% true.
Praise be the Omnissiah and his mighty gifts.
This makes me appreciate the capabilities of the Harrier considering that it was made over 50 years ago.
It was ahead of its time for sure
Fine British engineering. The F-35 is a worthy American successor.
Harrier pioneers VTOL, insanely advanced for it’s time. F35 revolutionizes this by adding Stealth and increasing payload and hover time capabilities
@@BrapBrapDorito not to mention supersonic capability.
@@craigkingdon4424 Supercruising supersonic capabilities too
Brilliant video! Watched it on Nebula of course! Learned so many new things about the F35!
Seems you also watched it on UA-cam 😛
The B variant is a technological marvel. The fact that the A variant is now coming in below cost estimates is also amazing given the planes capabilities.
We often don't appreciate how crazy the F-35B is. All you have to do is take one look at the X-32 to see just how difficult it is to do all the things the F-35B was expected to do.
When the f-22 first came out, it could have been called overkill.
Little did we know lockheed martin had someone holding 35 of their beers that whole time
The F-22 is still very much overkill. We just decided it wasn’t _enough_ overkill.
This video, I believe, ranks up there with your best! Your research coupled with the exceptional graphics pushes this essay into the top tier of F-35 videos. Nice work!
This was EXCEPTIONALLY well detailed, and explained in laymans terms. You're incredible at this!
This is insanely incredible! You should be very proud of what you’ve done with this channel and the team you’ve surrounded yourself with! The animations and infographics coupled with the well-researched explanations is so incredibly well done, you guys are providing unprecedented informative content that realizes goals youtube never even thought about.
You guys are internet’s priceless content creators!
I'm concerned that the USA's adversaries will garner too much info from a detailed video like this.
@@brahmburgers don’t worry about it, any country that could pose the threat of building anything 1/10 of the capability already has much much more info about the plane than this or any public video or dataset. Their problem isn’t only information, but also engineering and production capabilities
@@brahmburgers this is probably only the declassifed info too
GOD i fucking LOVE having a bottomless defense budget
And the dark projects not available to see
I'd rather have universal Healthcare, but yeah it's cool seeing the stuff the US Military is capable of making.
Are you from NCD?
@@sushmag4297We can do both. Universal healthcare is cheaper than the system of price gouging we have now.
Merica love it
I’ve been waiting for this.
What a fantastic video and great explanations for really very complicated topics.
If i was to nit pick on anything in the video it is the lack of mentions of the names of different systems on the jet itself, and maybe just the pronounciations of some of the stuff mentioned in the video, like the F-117 as F one seventeen and F-135 as F one thirty five.
Brilliant stuff from you guys as always. This warms my Air Force heart truly.
I just can't say it enough, this channel has the best in-depth entertaining engineering related videos I've came across up to this point! Huge respect!
I didn't think I'd ever see anything as impressive as the Harrier Jump Jet hovering, then the vertical landing and its short take off, too. However, this thing has truly blown my mind -- kudos. It's absolutely stunning, too. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
I will always have a spot in my heart for the Harrier.
@@chrissmith7669
Ditto. From Ahnold 'piloting' one in "True Lies" to seeing them perform at an airshow as a child (and as an adult).
what is music to me is the C17 and hearing the Pratt & Whitney's grown as their harmonic balance is pushed to the limit up their approach to landing at Andrews. Dream all you want. It is still propulsion. Cage go in the water. Shark in the water. Our Shark.
@@ruthnoya8424 I saw the British precision harrier flying group practice at the airfield where I was stationed. They ripped the piss out of our apron but we loved it.
Isn't the Harrier famously difficult to control while in VTOL?
This video is absolutely stunning, and i've watched this at least 6 times now. props to you and your team, and keep up the fabulous work.
I've been into the f35's factory in Cameri and it was amazing. People can hate it but it's quite a beast to be reckoned with
"People can hate it"
But those people are idiots.
This is one of my all time favorite videos of yours! Amazing work explaining how the systems work and the rationale behind them.
Could you imagine a medieval king seeing this video? After having just mandated, say, a row of catapults to be built, or a few ships? It's insane how far our military technology has gone. A single one of these F-35s could defeat an entire medieval kingdom easily.
and to think, it was only JUST over 100 years ago that we _started_ being able to fly! Absolutely amazing
"A single one of these F-35s could defeat an entire medieval kingdom easily."
Except they only hold four missiles and can't fly more than a few hours without refueling.
@@wisenber Except against an enemy that has nonexistent anti-air it can carry more bombs than an A-10 by using wing pylons. And stop liking your own comments.
@@brilobox2 "it can carry more bombs than an A-10 by"
Which makes up to 12 and a couple of hours of flight time prior to refuel. Maybe you could ask the kingdom to all pile close enough together to make it easier for a few 500 lb bombs to wipe them out?
"And stop liking your own comments."
Stop pretending I did.
@@wisenber Medieval kingdoms are far smaller and weaker than the ancient empires that preceded them.
All you have to do is assasinate a couple families, demonstrate your very real command over a litteral flying metallic dragon and Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt; presto!
Want to keep what you conquered though?
Yeh, probably want to get at them shales and quarries pronto!
My dad has worked on all versions of this JSF ("joint strike fighter" versions F-35 A, B, and C) its awesome to see how he talked about it and now here in this video
Most comprehensive look at the F-35 I've ever seen. Well done. All this time and I never heard of the towed radar array. Amazing!
Wow,you all did some obsurd amount of homework, simply unbelievable and unheard of thru a youtube platform, I don't even know how you got some serious indepth information, and then the visual effects and graphics layered throughout is a serious feat,and the narrator has the perfect pitch and tone! It's awesome guys,bravo,it's crazy good!
SUPER STEALYH JET TOUGH TO BE DETECTED EXCELLENT TECHNOLOGY
As a member of the Lockheed Martin F-35 team, I want to thank you for a great presentation!👏
hows the mpg compared to a civic
@@krovi8111 very bad
I mean no disrespect but what's your response to these gentlemen ua-cam.com/video/mxDSiwqM2nw/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/8kssZua8MVc/v-deo.html
Did you get to fly in its simulator?
@@krovi8111apparently the f35b uses about 4kg of fuel per km, which is pretty oof
One of the most interesting and informative airframe engineering breakdowns I've ever seen...thanks for your efforts 👍
Yet another content rich, informative video! Keep it up! A huge fan here.
A huge fan on the F-35 as well!
Wow! Best technical run down I have seen. I love your information density and clear, declarative sentences. I've subscribed because of this video.
Love your channel! I dream to be an aerospace engineer you’ve helped me a lot!!
This channel is an absolut wonder of pedagogy, of complexity turning into simplicity. Thank you so much for this amazing job
I learned so much, it felt like reading classified documents.
Make sure to give them back or at least not hide them next to your corvette
And this is just what's released to the public....
aka reading through the War Thunder forums
So you play War Thunder? xD
@@volvo09 that was what I was thinking while watching this video. If this is what is put out in the public, the classified tech must be way more insane!
The F-35B has now become my favorite jet not just because of it's aesthetic but also because of it's engineering. Internalizing the weapon systems was a smart move. And I didn't know till I saw this video that this plane can ACTUALLY hover like a helicopter. I only thought it was possible in the Avengers movie. I was surprised that it was real. Only if every other plane had this hoverability.
It’s been the most maligned of the 3 variants but may become the most valuable. With Marine Littoral regiments they can spread F-35B’s all across the Philippines and keep China contained within the first island chain.
@@karlkobler218 not to mention that the British and the Italians use the B variant for our carriers.
I know Im not even anywhere close to an engineer or even engineering student. But the vertical take off and landing immediately reminded me of marvel movies too. I can't even imagine how useful that is. Not to mention the other areas where the technology could be applied in the future. Its like Im living in the future.
Vertical flight and hovering was introduced in the 80s.. the f35b just made it even better
Amazing plane for sure, but it didn't feel as revolutionnary to me as the F22 or the B2. The VTOL and head mounted display were quite revolutionnary for sure.
My curiosity got fired up when F35B lightning II was showcased in India airshow. I was aware that this is most advanced fighter jet to date. That is all to it. Your video gave clean insight into it's capabilities. Wonderful video .The narration was lucid void technical jargons for a layman.
I thought they used paper planes, they finally got holograms! Very cool.
Thanks
This video is so incredibly good at getting vital, complicated info across in a very simple and straightfoward way. Absolute masterpiece.
The Royal Navy's Queen Elizabeth class carriers use the F35B. They are one of the larger Carrier classes in the world, and was designed around the F35B. It is only in its earliest iteration at the moment, and yet this formidable capability is already starting to grow and has been in action already. Not perfect yet, but a gigantic step in the right direction.
Vectored thrust for vertical takeoff is a complete waste and renders the aircraft useless. The AV-8 Harriet never lived up to anything, it was a fatal joker. Why waste all that capacity to take off from a small deck: stupid! The tax payers are being fleeces again. The future is in autonomous drones, missile and Lazer technology. The human borne fighter is a thing of the past.
@@mcgch46e80 I'm sure you know best.
Impressive! This video on the F-35 is truly exceptional. While others merely touch on the subject, it delves into intricate details of the aircraft's mechanics.
Why do I get the feeling that the depth of information available on this technology is only possible because the technology of the next generation aircraft make these technological marvels obsolete?
Great call-out to the Cirrus SF-50, I'm an engineer at Cirrus. Once you called out the V-tail, I immediately thought of that aircraft.
Best video I've ever seen concerning F35. Props to you all.
I can Imagine how much time it took to make but I was constantly hoping the video to be longer.
I'm so glad the F-35 is finally getting the love it deserves from all corners of the internet. It's a fantastic airframe and the data fusion technology it boasts is truly game-changing.
Absolutely.
How is it game changing? What specifically will change about the "game"?
Sure it's a cool plane, but it's also a ridiculous use of taxpayer's money
@@EdwardM104 Lol no, it secures America and our allies' dominance for decades to come. One of the best uses of taxpayer money.
@@superhenkable Because it links the data the F-35 receives from its own systems and shares it seamlessly with other assets in the AO.
For one example, the US has already run a test where a PATRIOT air defense missile system was able to fire a missile and hit a target that it could not see with its own radar because there was an F-35 that WAS able to see it with its radar and send the data in real time to the PATRIOT.
Another application is the F-35 doing much the same with aerial assets. For instance, the new F-15EX is what's called a "missile truck". It isn't stealthy, but it can carry far more missiles than the F-35 can. What the F-35 can do is fly ahead of the F-15EX into airspace the F-15 would not be able to survive in, designate targets, send the data to the F-15, which can then fire its entire payload and score kills even though its own radar cannot actually see what it is firing at. The missiles will fly true because the F-35's radar is linked into their data system and is guiding them to target.
A final application is close on the horizon with the Loyal Wingman program the US is developing. Basically, it allows the F-35 to function as an entire squadron. It serves as the controller for an entire formation of combat UAVs it flies with. These UAVs carry their own munitions that the F-35 pilot can fire at whatever target they chose, and the drones will even maneuver to take a missile for the F-35 that it cannot evade or spoof. This also allows the F-35 to be far more versatile, as the UCAVs will be able to carry a mix of both anti-air and anti-ground munitions.
So yeah, those are all revolutions in how aerial warfare will play out going forward and I haven't even scratched the surface. But no other plane on Earth has those capabilities.
The F-35 is so advanced now that it doesn't need a pilot to fly and not even the USAF knows where it is. 😂
LOLLLLLLLLL
Stealth mode at its best. 😂 An airplane that cannot be spotted even by its own airforce..
Unnecessary 25 minutes of pro USAF propaganda.
so u are saying it can go failsafe? nice try
Right, because out of the 1000 F-35s we have we lost one on a training mission because of human error. Man, you reformers are stupid.
The production value of this channel is amazing and keeps improving every video. Absolutely incredible job
This channel never ceases to impress. Even documentaries made by big companies rarely achieve this level of production quality. Glad I subscribed to this channel.
If I may suggest a topic I would love to see covered; a video about the insane engineering of the F22 Raptor would be amazing.
Beginning to appreciate why this plane was so insanely expensive to develop, great video as always!!
Insane initial cost but damn did it payoff.
The most advanced 5th gen jet and now it costs less than a 4.5 gen Gripen
The F-35B was technically the most challenging variant to design. Its nothing short of a miracle that Lockheed pulled it off. They had many problems with too much weight but they somehow did it
I began to respect it and it's capabilities more, now seeing that the expense and length of development is actually justified
@tom billiard really
Love these kinds of videos. I really enjoyed the content, along with the in-depth analysis and the animations. Keep up the great work! So much fun to watch
Learning about all this high tech equipment really makes me curious what they have that we don't know about yet, probably mind destroying stuff because this stuff is already mind blowing
How simple it looks but how complicated it is inside this beautiful machine itself is fascinating and can make anyone into deep thought.
Man, so many comments confused about government spending. We dont need to choose between an advanced military and universal healthcare. We are already spending enough money on healthcare, we just need to stop money bleeding from the system in the form of profits to private companies.
Indeed. Universal health care would be cheaper than the current US system.
Phase arrays do also emit a lot of noise, you can not cancel all directions but get more like a "fanning" set of beams, where one is the strongest and rest fall in the intensity. When it comes to the receiver, it sees a beam but what actually happens is that we send a lot of stuff, all around.
In effect the enemy knows you're coming from a certain direction but can't pinpoint your exact location. It's like being approached by swarm of decoys with no real idea of which is the true threat.
They can only pick up blips here and there because it is continuously channel hopping up to around 1,000 times / second.
@@blakebrown534 But the hopping happens across relatively small band, it is not going from megahertz to kilohertz to gigahertz, but for ex, 500MHz to 510Mhz.
I had no idea about the crazy anti-radar missile measures it has. I thought it just used chaff like most planes. Thanks for the video!
At first I almost dismissed this video as I thought it was going to be targeted for the new people to stealth and aviation.. However, even following with a "keen eye" on stealth and aviation period, I kept watching... I have to say.. This is by far the best video for someone who isn't an engineer or, maybe you are, and can speak human too) I have ever read... You / this channel (or whoever is scripting this) have a true knack in explaining things to pretty much most of the people that care to know something on not just the F-35(b) but on radar, REAL stealth technology (at least as far as I know)... I'm honestly quick to talk smack on YT or even in person if I think they are full of it.. I'm absolutely impressed with all of this and will be sharing it with even my childhood friend, who happens to be a Commander based in the UK now.. He is also a test pilot.. He flies everything they can get our / their hands on.. Harriers to helicopters... I asked him if he had flown the F-35.. He laughed and said the helmets are too expensive, and they already know exactly what they can do. Me being a hard core F-22 fan once scoffed at the F-35.. What is lost on most people is there is NO dogfighting outside of 2nd or 3rd world countries that will ever happen again.. The fusion in networking, along with the stealth is where it is at... He clearly said their will likely not be a single person in an airframe within the next generation. "Humans are the weak link".. Computers don't care about G's... Again, sorry for the winding road response.. Just an overall excellent video..
Stealth does not work. The Air Force and Lockheed Martin are lying to you my man.
And if you think a F35 pilot is going to give you an unbiased review of this dog you are crazy.
Telling the truth would end their careers.
Another beautiful technical explanation. That phase array antenna/noise cancelling infographic was the best. As with all animations, love that engine. I am a mechanical engineer that deals with mass and cg! Love learning more about aerodynamics any day! 😁
The quality of this video and its content is so outstanding I had to write a comment for the first time in years.
The animations were fascinating to watch!
Thank you!
Love the channel. Your renders are superb! That is what distinguishes your channel from others. Keep up the good work
man your level of knowledge in many different field is incredible. I am an antenna Engineer and I loved the end of the video !!
The 3 bearing swivel engine is just fantastic. The f135 truly is a thing of beauty, one of the greatest jet engines ever made.
Wow! This is really a good video about the F-35. All others say the same things without going into details in how things work. Hats off to you sir, for your extensive research and for bringing new, interesting information that shows the crazy engineering these airplanes have.
Worked for 3 years on radar absorbing material, especially with nanotubes, in particular MWCNT. Was amazing the first time we measured in Band-Ku as well...
10:54 Huh, I never would have thought of that. My understanding of the crease in the nose was always that it acted as a sort of blank return spot, where it wouldn't return any waves since there wasn't an edge perpendicular to the incoming signal (like you can see with the arrow pointing left at 10:50). Interesting to learn that radar waves can travel around surfaces too, not just over them.
the crease also serves another purpose, which wasn't mentioned in this video - generating vortices that will interact with vortices from the intake edge and the vortices from the leading edge. This greatly enhances performance in the high alpha envelopes and therefore reflective LERX or canards are pretty much not needed. Northrop found this by accident when they first tested Malaysian RF-5Es with the special nose. The F-22 also exploits this.
I love the renderings that you guys used to help explain how the plane works. Great video