Lockheed Martin's latest promotional video about their LRASM antiship missile engaging a Chinese Type 055 Cruiser launched from a F-35
impressive
Why is the F-35 carrying them externally?
>>64759637very impressive
>>64759655Because it looks cooler.
>>64759655Because it can only carry two internally.
vely implessivethe tian mandate is dead
Impressive
>>64759637Where's AA fire from the fleet?
IMPLESSIVE!
>>64759875They’re being manned by the air-defense cuckhold.
its funny how the CGI is so dated looking.
>>64759655The 2700 pound 14 foot long missile cannot fit inside. I doubt the LRASM is really integrated into the F-35, yet. It is probably just a concept hype video. The US Navy does not have very many F-35C aircraft.Australia was crying about LRASM weapons integration with the F-35, but did not want to spend the money. It is the only country other than the USA to have LRASM. Eurotrash don't want to spend 4 million dollars for each LRASM. They all wanted to free-ride off the USA, like usual.
>>64759922Europe already has Storm Shadow/SCALP/Taurus which has been combat tested in Ukraine unlike LRASM
>>64759875The red spheres they're going around represent the potential detection range of the ship's radar against the missile, which LRASM can automatically evade and go around, including messaging other missiles around it to create a comprehensive map of air defenses in the area and gaps between them. Later on it's shown sea skimming which would also reduce the range at which the ship can engage it but unlike other promotional videos the final moments before engagement are not shown which is when the ship is most likely to detect it and attempt interception.
>>64759936Neither of those are anti-ship missiles or the European counterpart to LRASM, which would be the Naval Strike Missile, d&c shitskin.
>>64759936all of those are significantly worse that LRASM lmao
>>64759637Being able to identify targets and then go after specific areas is some Battlestations Pacific shit.
>>64759936>euros have 1980s tomahawk tech that the USA gave them.Those are not really anti-ship missiles. The Europeans use a smaller anti-ship missile, like the Exocet, Harpoon, NSM, Sea Breaker, etc. The LRASM has a range of 350 or 500 miles (not really sure) and a 1,000 pound warhead. >LRASM is untested in combat!!! REEEEEThe LRASM is based on the JASSM missile. It has been tested and in service since 2018. USN just integrated the LRASM for VLS launch. Muh combat testing is a weak argument. If a weapon cannot be tested before combat, then most of the world's weapons systems are useless without a war.
>>64759637I'm surprised that the chink bots haven't flooded the comments section yet.
>>64759655because then F-35 loses any "stealth" and can be run down and killed by a Temu knockoff Yak-130 with WTF Temu missile the Pakis used on Hindu Rafale.Locksneed not wrong, its just that same thing will be happening the other way, and China will have 3x many ships, and as proven by Egyptians in 1970s, a small ship can launch a big missile due to physics, and the Chinese have 750,000 such craft. Literally one for about every 10 miles of entire world's ocean.
>>64760128The LRASM itself is LRO and the range is 1000+ km, so it can launch far outside of a ship's engagement range. Chinese aircraft don't matter because they'll only have them for the first 5 minutes of the war.
>>64759875LRASM has a low RCS so there's a good chance the warship hasn't noticed them yet.
>>64759963People DO NOT comprehend how nuts this is. A globe master can literally shit out pallets of these fuckers and say “go kill some chink destroyers or anything bigger than that” and they will literally go and seek them out, feeding back SIGINT and ELINT the whole way there.
