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Poslao: 20 Sep 2016 15:07
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Lokid naravno reklamira T-50A kao gotovo resenje sa najmanje rizika
Citat:Lockheed Martin executives are making the case that the T-50A aircraft, produced with Korea Aerospace Industries, is the U.S. Air Force’s safest bet to replace its aging jet trainers.
The T-50A is “the lowest risk option out there from all standpoints,” Mark Ward, T-50 chief test pilot for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, said Sept. 19 at the Air Force Association annual conference.
The company is competing with three other teams — Boeing with Saab, Northrop Grumman with BAE Systems and L-3 and Raytheon with Alenia Aermacchi — for the Air Force contract to replace the aging T-38 fleet. The Air Force intends to buy about 350 aircraft and wants an initial operating capability by 2024.
The modified T-50 aircraft features a single GE F404 engine, an optional dorsal aerial refueling capability, a larger cockpit display that can feature F-16 or F-35-style interfaces and updated training software, Ward said. Stadium seating for the instructor pilot and embedded sensor training are also included, he said.
Two aircraft have already been built, and the first has completed all of its subsonic testing, stability and control testing and ground testing, he said. Lockheed is conducting avionics testing on the second aircraft to ensure the new cockpit’s functionality.
Lockheed benefits from being able to draw on over 100,000 flight hours and data from its T-50 aircraft, Ward said. More than 150 T-50 models have been sold worldwide to countries including South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Iraq and the Philippines.
The T-50A is “about 80 percent F-16 designed,” with an F-16-style radar and target display. It also features an F-35 tactical situation display and electronic warfare-style display. The trainer’s head-up display can change from an F-16 style to an F-35/F-22 format “at the push of a screen,” Ward said.
Ward said that Lockheed continues to perform testing on the aircraft in order to spot-check specific modifications, and because “every bit of testing we do now to gather data, subtracts from what the Air Force will have to pay” later and will shorten the length of post-contract test time, he said.
“That’s all part of the strategy,” he continued. “The Air Force has a 2024 — right now, unless they change it — goal for the airplanes to be out there in the field; we would like to help move that to the left.”
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=2302
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Poslao: 30 Sep 2016 15:06
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Jedni u klin drugi u plocu...
Citat:High performance is incentivized but will not have a significant impact on the outcome
Latest Air Force thinking aligns with Boeing-Saab team’s approach
T-X program office will likely issue one more draft RFP before releasing a final version in December
“Affordability is one of the primary factors we are looking for,” Roberson said during an interview at the AFA conference. “Affordability overall is going to have a much bigger impact than the difference between threshold and objective performance.”
“The No. 1 mission is to meet the threshold requirements of the Air Force advanced pilot training,” Boeing Phantom Works President Darryl Davis told reporters after the rollout ceremony— an approach that aligns precisely with Roberson’s comments to Aviation Week. “If you are going to control cost, you have to drive how you actually meet all those requirements,” Davis said.
By contrast, Lockheed Martin and its partner, Korea Aerospace Systems, seem to be betting that the Air Force will ultimately pick a low-risk, high-performance T-X. The T-50As have proven in flight testing that they easily meet the service’s objective performance requirements for the T-X, with a maximum G-capability of 8, sustained G-capability of 7.5 and 25-deg. angle of attack, Lockheed’s chief T-50A test pilot, Mark Ward, said during AFA.......
The Air Force is certainly pushing for a high-performance T-X because leaders want the new fleet of trainers to replicate the capabilities of the F-35s and F-22s future pilots will fly, Roberson acknowledges. “The closer that we can get training-wise to replicating that fifth-generation environment, the more comfortable we are going to feel turning somebody loose for the first time on an airplane like that,” he says.
http://aviationweek.com/platforms-propulsion/affor.....ainer-race
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Poslao: 07 Okt 2016 14:29
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Citat:When it comes to the pure airborne performance of the T-50A, Ward comments: ‘That’s where we have really clobbered the competition. We have an airplane that was designed using F-16 technology. We basically have an F-16 wing; the design is downsized a little bit and it’s lighter, but essentially you have an airplane that turns even better. The GE F404 motor gives us 17,700lb of thrust and with an empty weight under 15,000lb it has very similar performance. Not the same, but similar, to an F-16. Handing wise, it’s got a Block 60-style digital flight control computer that’s been tuned to make it a very smooth but responsive airplane.
http://www.combataircraft.net/2016/10/06/t-50a-lockheeds-low-risk-t-x-candidate/
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Kazu da je za malo puklo partnerstvo
Raytheon, Leonardo Hash Out Differences Over T-X Trainer Partnership
Citat:The partnership between Raytheon and Italy’s Leonardo-Finmeccanica to sell jet trainers to the US is back on track after nearly falling apart thanks to a dispute over who calls the shots, multiple sources knowledgeable of the talks have told Defense News.
“The partnership was saved at the end of last week,” one source said.
 http://www.defensenews.com/articles/raytheon-leona.....artnership
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