By far, the most expensive fighter F35

The "most expensive fighter" F35 crashed twice in three years, which is disappointing!

According to Japanese media reports, a Japanese F35A fighter plane lost contact, and then its wreckage was discovered. This F35A fighter is the latest model owned by Japan Air Self-Defense Force. Before this, there has never been any accident, and this incident has attracted the attention of many netizens.

This F35A fighter is an American single-seat single-engine fighter, belonging to the fifth generation fighter, the largest single-engine single-seat carrier-based fighter in the world, and the only carrier-based fifth generation fighter in service at present. This fighter has developed many models, among which the F-35A fighter takes off and lands on the traditional runway.

This F35A fighter has a fuselage length of 15.67m, a wingspan of 10.7m, a fuselage height of 4.33m, an empty weight of 13 154kg, and a maximum takeoff weight of 3 1800kg. The power system is Pratt & Whitney F.

Japan introduced this F35A fighter because of its excellent performance, which can greatly improve the combat capability of Japan Air Self-Defense Force. First of all, although the flight speed of this fighter is not fast, it is not much different from the general third-generation fighter, but it has accurate aerodynamic layout design and advanced flight control computer, so its maneuverability is much higher than that of the third-generation fighter.

In addition, this F35A fighter is equipped with APG-8 1 active phased array radar, which is much more advanced than the phased array radar of most fighters. This kind of radar has the ability of synthetic aperture radar mapping and ground moving target indication, so this fighter has excellent ground attack ability.

However, the most prominent feature of this F35A fighter is stealth performance, which is the best in the world. Coupled with the passive electronic detection system, this fighter can approach the enemy in air combat and launch air-to-air missiles to attack the enemy without turning on the radar.

These excellent performances are currently lacking in the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. After the introduction of this fighter, its combat capability can't be compared at all, but the occurrence of this crash has dealt a great blow to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force.

In fact, before the crash, an American F-35B crashed in 20 18. Fortunately, no pilots or civilians were injured in this incident, but the impact was similar to this one, which cast a shadow over the future of this world's first fighter in the international market.