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What it is Like to Fly an F-35: Interviews with Three F-35 Pilots


Warrior Maven

The F-35 has a 25mm cannon, 5th-Gen stealth configuration & unmatched “sensor fusion.” Go behind the scenes with Warrior Maven's, Kris Osborn as he interviews F-35 Fighter Pilots


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By Kris Osborn - President & Editor-In-Chief, Warrior Maven


The F-35 is armed with a 25mm cannon, flies with a 5th-Generation stealth configuration, attacks with an entirely new generation of air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons, yet its most defining characteristic may ultimately lie in the often cited realm of “sensor fusion.”


This sensibility seemed to emerge as a consistent point of emphasis from an interview I did recently with three F-35 pilots. Lockheed Martin F-35 Test Pilot Chris “Worm” Spinelli, who spent 24 years in the Air Force, told me the aircraft is defined by “data integration.”


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