F-22 过时了。。。【快速翻译】
The F-22 is going away, eventually. But not before the Air Force gets comfortable with its successor. 6park.com22 最终还是要走， 但是要等到空军爽了之后。
 6park.comBy: Valerie Insinna 21 minutes ago 6park.com /cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/mco/FD5GNDND7RHPLPX3YMUS4SEXIY.jpg) 6park.comAn F-15E Strike Eagle assigned to the 492rd Fighter Squadron launches for a sortie Oct. 11, 2018, at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England. (Senior Airman Malcolm Mayfield/U.S. Air Force) 6park.comWASHINGTON — Top Air Force officials are now convinced the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor lacks the magazine depth and range needed to carry it into the next decade as the service’s air superiority fighter of choice. 6park.com美空军认为22 已经过时了。 6park.com 6park.comBut the exact timing of its retirement will depend on how quickly the Air Force can put its sixth-generation fighter into production, said Lt. Gen. Clinton Hinote, the service’s deputy chief of staff for strategy, integration and requirements. 6park.com但是到底什么时候让他退役，还不着调。 6park.com“By about the 2030 timeframe, you’re talking about a 40-year-old platform [in the F-22], and it’s just not going to be the right tool for the job, especially when we’re talking about defending our friends like Taiwan and Japan and the Philippines against a Chinese threat that grows and grows,” Hinote told Defense News in an exclusive May 13 interview. 6park.com到2030年， 22就40岁了。哇，我就50岁了。 到那时候，22就不能在亚洲对付中国了。 6park.com“We’re treating [the F-22] as the bridge to the NGAD capability,” he said, using an acronym for the Next Generation Air Dominance program, under which the service plans to develop a sixth-generation fighter to replace the F-22. 6park.com22 是通向下一代制空计划得桥梁。 6park.com 6park.comHinote spoke with Defense News a day after Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. C.Q. Brown disclosed the service’s upcoming plan to phase out the F-22 and streamline the service’s fighter inventory to four main fighter variants. 6park.com空军有意 开始退 22， 并且 将 战斗机型号减少到4个。 6park.comThose four aircraft include NGAD, the Lockheed Martin F-35 joint strike fighter, Boeing F-15EX and Lockheed F-16. 6park.com4个型号包含， 35， 15EX， 16. 6park.com“Right now we have seven fighter fleets. My intent is to get down to about four. With that four, what is the right mix?” Brown said at the McAleese and Associations conference on Wednesday. He added that the service would also retain the A-10 Warthog attack plane “for a while.” 6park.com现在有 7个型号，到底怎么选择，还待定。但是布朗说应该还有 10。 6park.comTalk of the F-22′s future was conspicuously absent in Brown’s comments, even though the Raptor currently ranks as the Air Force’s second newest fighter and its premier air superiority fighter. 6park.com布朗竟然无视22， 尽管22 现在是空优头号王牌。 6park.comHinote said the F-22′s retirement would be “event-driven” and interwoven with NGAD’s development, occurring closer to the 2030s than upcoming fiscal year 2022 budget cycle. 6park.com随着 NGAD得进展，22就退了。大约2030. 6park.com“We don’t have to make that decision this year,” he said. “What we’re going to want to see is, when do we press from the NGAD being a developmental program to being a production program? Some people call that milestone C.” 6park.com今天不用做决定， 什么时候下一代出来了，再定。 6park.comFew details have been released about the highly classified NGAD program, but service officials conceive it as a family of systems — not simply a traditional fighter jet flown by a human pilot. Last September, former Air Force acquisition executive Will Roper announced that a full-scale NGAD demonstrator had made its inaugural flight. 6park.comNGAD还没有什么头绪，高度机密。但是不简单。难道是 折刀？？ 6park.com“At the moment we’re thinking that it’s manned, unmanned and optionally manned,” Hinote said. “Frankly I think we’re going to explore all of those to go forward to see exactly what the best use of this is.” 6park.com具体有人没人？还有待探讨。 6park.comIt’s unclear how close NGAD is to being fielded, but Hinote said it is proceeding ahead of expectations. 6park.comNGAD到底走到哪步？不知道，但是比预期好。 6park.com“Some of our best airmen and joint partners are very impressed with the progress that the primes have made, and all of the other subcontractors have made,” he said. 6park.com小伙伴们对进度 很激动。 6park.com“Probably the biggest part of it is going to be this idea of digital design and then integration of the systems on the government reference architecture. If we can do those things well, we’re going to field it earlier,” he said. 6park.com整合 很重要 6park.comIf not, the Air Force will have to retain the F-22 longer. 6park.com如果进展不顺， 22要延期。 6park.com“It’s a great airplane,” Hinote said of the F-22. But as the service moves into the 2030s, the Raptor will find itself outpaced by adversary technologies. In a war game the Air Force held last year, which simulated a Chinese invasion of Taiwan set in the mid-2030s, the service relied on NGAD to penetrate into areas populated by Chinese threats. 6park.com22 是好 飞机， 但是30年，对中国作战就 吃力了。 要 NGAD. 6park.com“We couldn’t use the F-22 in that way,” he said. 6park.com22 比不上 NGAD 6park.comThe F-22′s limitations, Hinote said, include a small fleet size that contributes to high operating costs and low mission capable rates. It has a relatively short-range — only 1,850 nautical miles with two external fuel tanks — and its weapons magazine is small and lacks depth and range. 6park.com22 腿短，蛋少 6park.comEven its survivability will eventually be at stake as adversary nations field more capable air defense systems and its stealth advantage degrades, he said. 6park.com生存都是问题。 6park.comThe F-22′s range and magazine depth issues aren’t that different than those from the F-35, Hinote acknowledged. The F-22 can carry six AIM-120C AMRAAM and two AIM-9 missiles internally for air-to-air missions, while the F-35 can carry only four AMRAAMs inside its payload bay while maintaining a stealth configuration. 6park.com35跟22 同样问题 6park.comHowever, the F-35 is newer, more flexible and easier to maintain, with a longer service life ahead of it than what the F-22 can offer, and new weapons incoming as part of its Block 4 upgrade program. 6park.com但是35要新一点，情况好些。 6park.comIn addition, the Air Force will operate the F-35 in greater numbers, with only 186 F-22s in the Air Force’s inventory compared to 283 F-35A models as of May 8, according to Military.com. 6park.com而且35数量多。 6park.comAnd importantly, the F-35 is easier to modernize than the F-22 — although Hinote noted that there will a request in the fiscal 2022 budget to make targeted upgrades to the F-22′s sensor capability, as well as to fund new weapons that can be used across the entire fighter inventory. 6park.com而且35好改装，但钱够不够，还难说。 6park.com“You will see in our budget submissions that we are pursuing advanced air to air missiles,” he said. “We’re going to need that if we’re going to upgrade all of our fighters. Yes, you can could conceivably put that into the F-22. That won’t obviate some of the other challenges.” 6park.com空空蛋 要升级，只升级22 不管用。 6park.comBesides NGAD, the Air Force plans on retaining the F-35 — which Brown said will act as the “cornerstone” of the fighter inventory — as well as the F-15EX and F-16. 6park.com布朗认为 35要 保，而且是关键。15和16 也要。 6park.comThe F-15EX was initially purchased to replace F-15C/D Eagles that are nearing the end of their service life, but Brown’s disclosure also portends the eventual sunset of the F-15E Strike Eagle as well. 6park.comEX替代CD， 15E要退。 6park.comHinote said that the service is still studying whether it can modify its F-15Es to an EX configuration or whether it will buy new planes from Boeing. 6park.com空军还在看能不能改 15E成为 EX， 还是直接买 新 15EX。 6park.comEventually, the Air Force will also seek a replacement for its F-16 fleet. Brown has previously said the Air Force will consider buying a clean-sheet design or new production F-16s instead of purchasing additional F-35s to replace the F-16. 6park.com最终，16会被替代。空军要新东西， 不会用35 来替换16. 6park.com“I don’t need to make that decision today,” Brown said on Wednesday. “That’s probably six, seven, eight years away into the future. But I need to do is start shaping the thought process.”
不用今天定，布朗说，7，8年以后再定， 但现在要 正确思想。 6park.comhttps://www.defensenews.com/air/2021/05/13/the-f-22-is-going-away-eventually-but-not-before-the-air-force-gets-comfortable-with-its-successor/ 6park.com大F别走， 咱还是可以来这个啊。。。 6park.com贴主:flinstone于2021_05_13 16:15:21编辑
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