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The F-35 Lightning II: Fire in the Sky

Posted April 16, 2009 11:24 AM by Moose

Last week, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates recommended increasing the Pentagon's procurement of the F-35 from 14 aircraft in 2009 to 30 in 2010. Like the F-22 Raptor, a highly-maneuverable strike fighter that entered service with the United States Air Force (USAF) in 2005, the F-35 Lighting II is designed and built mainly by Lockheed Martin, a Maryland-based defense contractor. Other erospace partners for the F-35 Lighting II program include Northrop Grumman, Pratt & Whitney, General Electric, and BAE Systems.

Most media accounts of Secretary Gates' recent recommendations have focused on government outlays, cost overruns, and potential job losses – the stuff of television evening news. Here on CR4, however, members and guests recently locked horns in a spirited and informative debate about the F-22, the strike fighter whose production Secretary Gates wants to cap at 187 aircraft. Today, let's start with a brief look at the F-35 Lighting II, the stealth multi-role jet fighter that is slated for introduction in 2011.

The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program

The F-35 Lighting II is what the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) terms its "focal point" for providing an "affordable next generation strike aircraft" for the U.S. Navy, Air Force, and Marines. In describing the F-35, the DoD often refers to this warplane as the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) – a reference to how different versions of this same aircraft will be used by multiple branches of the U.S. military.

DoD press releases may emphasize the JSF's "affordability", but military planners such as John J. Young, Jr. stress the F-35's features. According to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development, the JSF will provide "precision strike capability with unprecedented stealth, range, sensor fusion, improved radar performance, combat ID and electronic attack capabilities".

Stealth, Sensors, and Engines

A stealth fighter, the F-35 Lighting II reportedly uses stealth coatings and radar-absorbing materials (RAM) that combine low maintenance with low observability. Details of the JSF's stealth technology remain classified, but the aircraft's AN/APG-81 AESA multi-function sensor array is well-known. Built by Northrup Grumman Electronic Systems, this active electronically scanned array (AESA) includes advanced air-to-air modes and air-to-ground modes, high-resolution mapping, ultra high bandwidth communications, combat identification, and electronic attack features.

There are two different engines under development for the F-35: the Pratt & Whitney F135 and the General Electric / Rolls Royce F136. With both powerplants, the short take-off and vertical landing (STVOL) versions use the patented Rolls Royce LiftSystem. Unlike the vertical-flight Harrier, which uses lift engines and rotating nozzles on the engine fan, the LiftSystem features a shaft-driven fan and a thrust-vectoring nozzle for the main engine exhaust.

Resources:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a0NQwnEqxSl4&refer=home

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-35_Lightning_II

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APG-81

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_LiftSystem


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Re: The F-35 Lightning II: Fire in the Sky

04/19/2009 3:04 PM

Impressive piece of hardware but now that we have the biggest stick on the playground (F22 & F35) will we have the guts to go hit the class bully in the head with it??

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04/19/2009 3:29 PM

"We" are the big bully of the playground... so we have to manufacture some enemies.

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04/21/2009 3:15 PM

YAY! I'm sure we do have the guts, given 'enough' reason to.

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05/12/2009 10:18 AM

i can see a pratt & whitney logo, yet no link to their site..? aren't they involved in this?...

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Re: The F-35 Lightning II: Fire in the Sky

05/11/2009 10:12 AM

There are tragic times in history when one can remember where they were upon hearing the news. The Space Shuttle Challenger accident of January 28th, 1986, is one of those cases. A crew of seven astronauts, one a beloved schoolteacher, was instantly killed when Challenger exploded upon take off. Allan McDonald was on the launch pad that day as an engineer and director for Thiokol, a company that made the defective parts for the shuttle. McDonald warned against the launch and soon found himself before the Presidential Commission committee testifying against his own company. Caught in the middle of litigation and controversy, McDonald miraculously kept his job thanks to pressure from Congress, using the time to chronicle the fallout. Truth, Lies, and O-rings is the story of the man who had an inside view of every step of the Challenger controversy. To order this book please visit http://upf.com/book.asp?id=MCDON001.

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05/12/2009 12:39 PM

it was sickening to be in the Ames research auditorium that day.....

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11/08/2009 2:24 AM

I think this may help you to understand;

Years ago,after leaving the armed services, I was abducted by Grays that are working for "the Federation".
The Federation is "a NATO type organization", of Grays,
Reptilian, Moth men,(all non human types about 42 different beings mostly violent military males ) different recessive beings too, that are discussed in various
contact books, and thousands of internet sites for the smart people to learn and study.
I was taken to the Federation by physical, barely visible in our spectrum.. I used infrared/spectrum lenses goggles,to see them
race of sub space beings. Regressive Beings working with Grays, called the White Brotherhood. After my negative experiances
of many years I learned from the Grays themselves ,(they abducted me for sperm, surgical removal, as they do with womens eggs all around the world),
This is what I know to be true: 1. all extraterrestrials are physical carbon based,
silicon based, or molecular based beings,including the ones who use magnetic field tecnology to cloak themselves, travel or
appear as a humans, i.e. stable plasmon technology. These technologies can be detected with geiger counters,
and magnetic field detectors sold "on line", directional is preferred....find the electrical devices on them,and around them in their nearby craft.
For your homes and cars..some of the Gray and reptilian devices can be disrupted by Mhz frequency devices built at home,
someone could make a small fortune selling better portable particle and wave detection, and disruption devices for our pockets.
High voltage tazer weapons as well, work. As with hand held powerful battery operated magnets,in close proximaty some can interfere
with gray technologies. Magnetic shielding paint can shield a room in your house where no EMF or ELF is detected! Other
races of sub space
beings have technology that I have seen, are defended against with hand lasers, built at home!!
2.Critical, we are not the only humans in the universe or multiverse...there are humans from Lyra, Pleadians,
Andromidan, Cassiopeian, Simion and billions more! 3, Even more important the Gray Federation is using Religion to "Dumb Down",
all of us on earth. 3. All Religions are false, there is no god, only Extraterrestrials and human support groups from other
worlds, the earths which NASA is just now locating are inhabited.

Our military is being attacked by the Grays ,(google on the internet), and
Reptilian Federation all the time, all the time, The shootings at Army bases world wide are mind controlled by the Gray Federation,
as is the sweat lodge incident , 911, and the current state of our economy and health...chem trails,
( 8-120 MHZ broadband mind control technologies piggybacked on T.V. cell phone and cable, important for you to remember).
A strategy used by the Grays and others is to mind control in the name of Religions, a not so well informed
person into doing the killing or attack on our government. Obama needs to know this as he has been manipulated openly by the federated grays,
those of us who understand Gray, Reptilian Military mind control Strategy and Tactics( for example...
Jesus is my mentor and I
am speaking with him now, no!! Jesus is dead It was told to me Jesus did exist , but he is dead it's an ET who learned earth languages.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
It is not Obamas fault,
nor is it Hilliary Clintons fault...it was not President Kennedy fault, but the Gray military Federation did kill him in part
because the Grays and others did not want us in Space.

It's being done mainly because these other types of ET"s, Grays, reptilian Snake beings, insectoid which are more technically advanced
and regressive in the way they think and act are working together against humans, abducting women for there experiments etc.

As we speak somewhere on earth a child is being abducted for food by the reptilians, and or for DNA by the grays I know!!!
There are technologies you can buy to protect yourselves, guns, tazers high volts, mind brain protection velostat caps,velostat 3M
shielding material also works in many labs with high emf use.
at home depot, particle dectors magnetic particle detectors...Critical infrared binoculars,
portable magnetic field room detectors, they have through chem trails and dropping poisons form the ships into our water supply,
use water filters and A/C hepa filters, our government needs to do more to protect its population.!! WE must invent
better ways of protection against these recessive extraterrestrial races, mind defense technologies and home shielding as well
as robots to detect and defend!!!
Have extra food at home for your family, it is no coincidence that in the movies on
abduction and on aliens we are seeing a lot of ET films, on T.V. "V", house, etc...They are signaling massive problems ahead,
maybe another war? The humans from hollywood, like me are trying to through this note, and films to
inform you of the risks we are in! 2012, alien mind control, H1N1 gray federation attacks on humans.

The Gray Federation ruined myself and family like they did with Alex collier, and Billy Meir, Michael Salla and others... I know about the
Photon belt we are entering please look it up on the internet...many friendly human races are trying to help us now
When I was at the Gray army here in Santa FE, N.M.base, I did see many things, I have a PhD, I'M a quick learner and
can now read their sumerian type alphabet and words... I was taken on one type of craft they use, how they fly and what they use in them...the saucer
shaped craft use electrical batteries as propulsion power, in the middle of some saucers there is a large circular ceiling to floor
barrel structure it contains lithium type batteries extremely high voltage charges. The craft are made of layered and compressed metals titanium compounds,
the outer skin is electrified to reduce and eliminate drag and atmospheric resistance. Inside the saucer is a network of Compressed
frequency transmitting fiber optics for controls and for ON BOARD GUIDENCE SYSTEMS, SIMPLE. THEY USE THE EARTHS MAGNETIC AND GRAVATATIONAL FIELDS TO FLY.
THE COPPER CLINDER CIRCLES ON TOP OF THE CRAFT AND BOTTOM SPIN, PICTURE TWO SMALLER CIRCULAR DISKS ON TOP AND BOTTOM
SPINING INDEPENDENTLY OF THE SAUCER. THEY CHARGE UP..THAT DIFFERENTIAL OF CHARGES INTERACTS
WITH A PLANETS OR SPACES MAGNETIC FIELDS FOR LIFT AND MOVEMENT. THE SAUCERS ARE SHIELDED TO PREVENT EXPLOSIONS AND TO PREVENT
MAGNETIC FIELD INTERACTIVITY......(THE OUTER SHELL IS CHARGED UP TO FLY W/O RESEISTANCE, IT STINGS when touched electrical pulse).
...I'M NOT A PHYSICS MAJOR BUT DID STUDY SOME ENGENERING.

They are trying to mind control our socities through Mhz frequency control, we think in about 11-80 Mhz,
and they use computers and oscilloscope combo. type MRI type equipment to read thoughts as we read print or a scientist reads peaks on a
graph, as well as gravitational field tech. to beam in false info.
Shield your brains and spinal cords!!!
All of our military and armed forces should wear velostat (signal protection electrical grounded materials on your head)
caps and monitor the frequency changes around them, the
government of the USA ours, needs to be informed of the grays methods and take steps to help each other, protect our
families people this is real....(people in Britian were not ready, prepared for WWII, Study military history )
...(we have a very weak and complacent military/police/NSA/CIA/) The Grays have even infiltrated some gov't individuals
in these agencies.......................!!! Just because you were in church on sunday and you see people speaking in tongs,
falling to the floor, and saying they are talking to god? there is no god only ET groups, ET governments.


Love
Dan


P.S. This was written under partial duress......they know where I live. Pass the info on.

The Federated reptilian/gray/insectoid societies are using harmful
technology to harm the human mind, causing
memory loss and fatigue...FIGHT BACK, I use the above mentioned technology
and when I go out and they start to harm my body with high intensity back spasm devices
i.e. microwave, particle , mind control. I use my mind and picture each attacker
being attacked by me. They hate loud music, food odors, perfumes, light, and our
minds killing them...! I keep a gun and tazer by my side always now!!!

Listen to this highly educated old man, if you see a craft these are not dolls, these are recessive
violent, harmful, controlling alien males..read the info on the net with a grain of salt,
why haven't they come forward? They wont because of violent abductions, use logic.
Protect your brains!!! stay away from them, Betty and Barney Hill were assaulted,
all of the abduction cases are harmful rape and kidnapping humans, we in the USA have laws
against these crimes yet our government turns in another direction. Because they control some
people in our not one world gov't yet.

Space is alot more crowded than most people know, extremely dangerous NASA knows..Our Rocket
systems and defense systems are frail...

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