Comments: - - It’s a very rare occasion that a gun could even work in a modern dogfight, but the fact is that it does happen, albeit once in a thousand sorties. Then there is pilot state of mind. The F4 Phantom was designed without a gun because we had brought online the latest and greatest air to air missiles, and the planes designers felt it was too expensive and unnecessary. The first time a missile failed or the pilot fired them all, the pilots expressed horror at being vulnerable and pilot morale plummeted. A gun was added, and it simply has been a dead issue ever since. The issue may be revisited in the future, but for now, all fighters, even the invulnerable F22, are designed with a gun. I feel there’s no need to revisit the issue. You’re not going to change the pilots minds, and it’s their lives on the line anyway. To gun or not to gun will be an issue soon dealt with, as the military wants to built the sixth generation fighter with a new optional pilot. I prefer it built with no cockpit to save huge amounts of money, space, and an ability to fly as no human could bare. The future will be very interesting, no doubt! Exciting, don’t you think?
The engine is a F135, not a F136. The F136 was developed by General Electric for the Lightning II, but ultimately they went with the Pratt & Whitney F135 because it's more powerful and reliable. The F135 was developed from the F119 (F22 Raptor) which was developed from the most reliable fighter engine ever built, the F100 (F16, F15, X47B)
Richard Jordan Gatling diseñó en 1861 y patentó el 9 de mayo de 1862 la ametralladora que lleva su nombre GATLING. Actualmente el término sistema Gatling se usa para armas con un sistema de cañones rotativos. Curiosamente y a pesar de los enormes avances en armamentos (misiles guiados, etc.,) todo buen piloto quiere disponer de una muy eficaz ametralladora, como la Gatling.
Richard Jordan Gatling diseñó en 1861 y patentó el 9 de mayo de 1862 la ametralladora que lleva su nombre GATLING. Actualmente el término sistema Gatling se usa para armas con un sistema de cañones rotativos. Curiosamente y a pesar de los enormes avances en armamentos (misiles guiados, etc.,) todo buen piloto quiere disponer de una muy eficaz ametralladora, como la Gatling.
