Strike Fighters 2 Israel Update' title='Strike Fighters 2 Israel Update' />Adir Who Israels F 3. Stealth Fightersclick to view fullIn an exclusive June 2. Israeli Air Force IAF chief procurement officer Brigadier General Zeev Snir told Israeli media that the F 3. Joint Strike Fighter was a key part of their IAF recapitalization plans, and that Israel intended to buy over 1. F 1. 6s. Since then, however, the expected cost of that purchase has more than doubled. Israels F 3. 5 contract had to deal with that sticker shock, with issues like the incorporation of Israeli technologies and industrial work, and with major schedule slips in the core F 3. Israel was even contemplating delaying its purchase, which would have removed an important early adopter for the Lightning II. In the end, however, Israel decided to forego other fighter options, and became the first foreign buyer of operational F 3. So, how is the F 3. Adir shaping upStrike Fighters 2 is a PC game Combat Flight Simulator that primarily centers on a fictitious conflict in the Middle East between the Kingdom of Dhimar and the. The IAF currently flies 27 F15I Raam Strike Eagles and 102 F16I Soufa fighters as its highend strike force. Another 72 F15 AD Eagle and 224 F16 AD. Kya Yehi Pyar Hai Full Video Song Download. Learn about the F35 Lightning II a 5th Generation fighter aircraft, combining advanced stealth with fighter speed and agility, sensor fusion and advanced sustainment. Hamas fighters die in separate Gaza tunnel collapses Terror group confirms deaths of two members of its armed wing overnight security source says incidents took. IsraelGaza conflict Palestinian school girls walk in a destroyed class room on Monday, November 26, in Gaza. The school was damaged some days ago. Get the latest international news and world events from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and more. See world news photos and videos at ABCNews. Designed in the 1950s and still used today, the Lockheed U2 nicknamed Dragon Lady is a super specialized, highaltitude spy plane. Its light enough to fly at. F 3. 5 for Israel Key Issues. F 1. 6B X 3. The IAF currently flies 2. F 1. 5I Raam Strike Eagles and 1. F 1. 6I Soufa fighters as its high end strike force. Another 7. 2 F 1. Strike Fighters 2 Israel' title='Strike Fighters 2 Israel' />A D Eagle and 2. F 1. 6 A D Falcon models form the backbone of its force, making Israel the worlds 2nd largest F 1. United States. The plan was that Israel would phase out its F 1. A Netz models in particular. A smaller number of new F 3. Netz fighters, and then replace more advanced F 1. VxBhYd4kLGKHJcqZIK5NA/strike_fighters_2_israel-10.jpg' alt='Strike Fighters 2 Israel' title='Strike Fighters 2 Israel' />A D models. That plan is underway, but it has run into turbulence at every step. The F 3. 5i Adir will need to address those issues as it competes with other options for future IAF dollars. Cost. Israels original estimates made their F 1. They pegged a 1. 00 plane F 3. A deal at around 5 billion, and Gen. Snir added that The IAF would be happy to equip itself with 2. F 2. 2s but the problem at this time is the US refusal to sell the plane, and its 2. Unfortunately, Israels September 2. F 3. 5s revealed an estimated 1. All in return for a fighter with poorer air to air performance than the F 2. Defense News quoted an official in the IDF General Staff as saying that Its unbelievable, first it was 4. IAF told us 7. 0 million to 8. Now, were looking at nearly three times that amount, and whos to say it wont continue to climbUnless its price drops sharply, the F 3. IAF offer. A pending gusher of oil and gas revenues from offshore fields may make the Israelis less price sensitive, but Israels jets arent just for show. If the F 3. 5s are seen as too expensive to support the fleet size Israel needs, the IAF will look at more affordable options to supplement their F 3. Capability. F 2. A Raptorclick to view fullIsrael originally wanted a different fighter, and pressed the USA for F 2. EX aircraft, in order to maintain the IAFs traditional requirement of regional air superiority. The F 3. 3 offers far fewer weapon choices than the F 3. Ultimately, Americas shut down of its F 2. For Israel, F 3. The F 3. A Block 3, which will be fielded in 2. F 2. 2, and is far inferior to the array its existing fighters already carry. Longer term, F 3. Israels ability to customize it, as the IAF has done to its F 1. F 1. 6 fleets. Customization. Spice bombclick for video. Access to the F 3. Israelis, as it has been with the Australians PDF, British, and others. That access is necessary when air forces want to upgrade the aircrafts computers, andor integrate new weapons, communications, or electronic warfare systems. Israeli planes generally undergo heavy modifications to incorporate Israeli electronics and weapons systems, and the USA has allowed the Israelis access to the F 1. F 1. 6s software. Israel has since exported a number of those enhancements for F 1. F 1. 5 customers in Asia and Latin America. The USA doesnt seem willing to bend on the software code issue for anyone, and insists on routing upgrade and change requests through Lockheed Martin, with attendant costs and possible delays. Israel has gone ahead with an initial buy anyway, while negotiating to add key items. Israeli F 3. 5i Adir fighters will include compatible communications systems and datalinks, and provisions to insert some locally built ECM and defensive electronics. Israel will also want to broaden the planes weapons array to include Israeli weapons, as a subject of future agreements. Items mentioned in reports to date include Python short range air to air missiles, and dual mode guidance Spice GPSIIR smart bombs. Those items are still being negotiated, and Israels top of the line strike fighter will need even more weapons than these in order to be fulfill its role. Israels Leverage. Israel didnt get everything it wanted in its initial buy, and ended up paying considerably more than it had expected. On the other hand, it did get the USA to move on the subject of ECM defensive systems as of 2. On the sellers side of the table, Israels buy is a respected vote of confidence that the F 3. Lockheed Martin is trying to ramp up orders for the F 3. A large order book would allow the firm to offer early buyers much lower prices for each plane, using dollar averaging over a substantial initial batch, instead of charging 1. That wide difference in purchase costs is standard for military aircraft of all types, but the F 3. Worse, American budgets are already slowing orders, with over 1. Potential customers with air fleets that are reaching their expiry dates are reluctant to pay those high early production costs. If enough of them defect, the F 3. By adding an Israeli endorsement, and adding orders during a critical period for the program, Israels 2. The final leverage point for Israel is its solid commitment to its fighter force, and known need for future upgrades. Over time, 3. 26 F 1. F 3. 5 in a strong competitive position for further orders. If volume purchases from other countries can help drive costs down closer to 8. F 3. 5 operating and maintenance costs, the F 3. Beyond the F 1. 6s, The IAFs F 1. Eagles will also require replacement in the coming years, which will be a competition all its own. If the F 3. 5 falters, sharply closer defense relations with Italy could turn the Eurofighter into an option, and Boeing is spending private funds to develop a stealth enhanced F 1. SE Silent Eagle. The F 1. SE would offer longer range, twin engines for reliability, a much wider set of integrated weapons, and IAF fleet commonalities, in exchange for less stealth than the F 3. If costs are even close to equivalent, the F 3. Contracts and Key Events. November 0. 81. 7 Israels next F 3. Nevatim air base, bringing its current fleet to nine. Tel Aviv will add a dedicated test aircraft in 2. A cabinet decision to whether to order additional F 3. September 1. 91. Deliveries of F 3. Adir Joint Strike Fighter aircraft to Israel continue, with two additional fighters recently touching down in the country, bringing the number now in possession to seven. The fighter will now undergo an integration process and will conduct initial operational testing in December. Israels F 3. 5i Adir fighter is based on the standard F 3. A variant modified with Israeli requirements. August 2. 91. 7 Israels Defense Ministry has signed contracts for a follow on order of 1. Lockheed Martin F 3. Adir fighters. This will be the third tranche of F 3. Israel, who expect delivery of the latest batch by December 2. In the first deal, Israel paid 1. F 3. 5s in total. In the second deal, the price went down to 1. Israel expects the price to drop below 9. Japans Next F X Fighters F 3. Wins Round 1. F 3. Aclick to view fullIn December 2. Japan picked Lockheed Martins new F 3. A stealth fighter as its next fighter aircraft, to replace its aging F 4 Kai Phantom fleet. The F 3. 5 was actually their 2nd choice. Back in February 2. Inside The Air Force ITAF reported that momentum was building within the USAF to sell the ultra advanced F 2. A Raptor abroad to trusted US allies, as a way of increasing numbers and production. Japan clearly wanted them, and the Raptor was a topic of diplomatic discussions in several venues, including a 2. In the end, however, US politics denied export permission for downgraded export variants of the F 2. That left Japan looking at other foreign F X fighter options in the short term, while they considered a domestic stealth fighter design as their long term project. In the ensuing F X competition, the F 3. Lightning II beat BAEs Eurofighter Typhoon, as well as an upgraded FA 1. E Super Hornet from Boeing. Now Lockheed Martin has to deliver, and so will its Japanese partners. Will the F 3. 5As price and program delays create problems in Japan This article looks at the JASDFs current force, its future options, and ongoing F X developments. The JASDF Structure Choices. F 4. EJ Kaizenclick to view fullThe Japan Air Self Defense Force JASDF currently has 3 fighter jet models in its fleet F 1. JF 1. 5DJ Eagles, its F 4. EJ Kai and RF 4. EJ reconnaissance Phantom IIs, and the Mitsubishi F 2 a larger, longer range variant on the F 1. C. The Mitsubishi F 1 entered service in 1. JASDF web site, but it has now been replaced by F 2s 1. Now, 4. 2 F 3. 5As will begin to replace the 8. F 4 fleet, but that wont be the end for Japan. The JASDF introduced the F 4. EJ in 1. 97. 3. It currently serves mostly in anti shipping and other permitted strike roles, though it can also be used for air defense and policing. The RF 4. EJ reconnaissance version will be replaced by F 1. Delay Audio Software. Js with special pods, and Japan has indicated that they will begin retiring the rest of the F 4 fleet early in the 2. Japan has top tier manufacturing experience, but they also had a qualitative and quantitative problem. Japanese firms have already produced F 1. Js under license, and designed and produced the Mitsubishi F 2 in conjunction with Lockheed Martin. The F 2 is larger than an F 1. F 1. 5, and it costs nearly as much. The F 2s wont be built in expected numbers, which means they cannot replace the F 4. EJs and RF 4. EJs. J 2. 0 Prototypeclick to view fullThe Japanese had important choices to make, and the 2. Japans F 2 fighters. Then China pushed things to the next level, unveiling its J 2. The Phase 1 plan was for Japan to choose a future F X fighter by the end of 2. Meanwhile, Japanese industry is trying to figure out how to keep itself busy now that license production of F 1. F 2s is ending. The Society of Japanese Aerospace Companies proposal involves producing F X fighters and their F XX follow on buy until 2. F 1. 5Js as well. That would be followed by a Japanese fighter design, to begin development by 2. ATD X stealth technology demonstrator. Japan hopes to fly ATD X in 2. SJACs idea was that its successor could enter production around 2. F X fighter line closed down. When choosing their initial F X buy, the Japanese had several options. The Winner F 3. Lightning IIF 3. A test flightclick to view fullIf stealth is desired, Lockheed Martins plane is considered a second best option to the F 2. While other contenders have sharply reduced their radar signature when compared to planes like the F 1. F 3. 5 is significantly ahead because its designed for stealth from the outset, including internal weapon bays. As China moved to introduce its own J 2. Japans thinking. Joint Strike Fighters also offer exceptional performance in the reconnaissance role, while its set partnership model smooths technology transfer issues. That transferred technology is very important to the Japanese, who are quietly working on stealth fighter concepts of their own. Finally, the F 3. Japanese investment. On the negative side, the F 3. Beyond that, the F 3. Japans avowedly defensive posture. Rising tensions in the area led Japan to conclude that it needed good ground attack capabilities as an explicit requirement, and based on their mathematical analysis of submitted information, Japan concluded that the F 3. A was more capable all around than other fighters with proven records. The choice was announced in December 2. June 2. 01. 2. Media reports arent completely precise, but they seem to suggest that Japanese F 3. As could eventually fly with up to 4. Japanese manufactured content. Reports and documents indicate that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. Mitsubishi Electric Corp. IHI Corp. on engines. DDH 1. 81 Hyuga USNs. LHD 2, post tsunamiclick to view entireThe F 3. Bs STOVL Short Take Off, Vertical Landing capabilities might make it an especially valuable future option, as a defensive aircraft that could operate from dispersed land locations, rather than bases that are easily targeted by enemy missiles. It has a shorter range than other variants, but Japan is also fielding 1. DDH Hyuga Class helicopter carriers for roles like disaster response, and will soon field larger 2. DDH Izumo Class ships. Theyre called helicopter destroyers, because Japan is currently prohibited from operating aircraft carriers, but it should be noted that other countries are planning to operate F 3. Bs from comparably sized ships. This very fact may inhibit Japan from ordering the F 3. B, despite its potential usefulness as a land based fighter. Japan had other options, too. They included Boeing The Traditional Supplier. F 1. 5Jsclick to view fullBoeing and its predecessor firm Mc. Donnell Douglas supplies the JASDFs F 4s and F 1. Their next generation choices included Upgraded F 1. Japan could have chosen to go ahead and buy kaizen F 1. Js at a comparable cost, possibly with the AESA APG 6. Singapore. Additional capability boosts would come from attached pods like Reece. Light or SHARP for reconnaissance, or combination recontargeting pods like LITENING or Lockheeds Sniper ATP. The concern in Japan is that this option could leave them without an air to air advantage against current PLAAF SU 3. MKK aircraft, let alone potential future upgrades like the SU 3. Chinas J 2. 0. Boeings new F 1. SE Silent Eagle appeared to be aimed directly at these concerns. It adds a number of important advances that will help it hold its own with currently fielded fighters, and is optimized for the kinds of long range, over water combat patrols the JASDF requires. In full stealth mode, its strike capability is sufficiently secondary that it need not raise alarm bells, but its still present. While a combined F 1. Kai F 1. 5SE buy appeared to be the easiest move, things did not work out that way. Boeing did not submit the F 1. SE, and F 1. 5 upgrades will have to be a separate, future issue for Japan. Instead, it submittedSuper Hornet Intlclick to view fullFA 1. Ei Super Hornet. The base for Boeings submission was the ANAPG 7. AESA radar equipped Block II model, and the FA 1. F model has already been sold to Australia.