san4 wrote:
fitz8402 wrote:
Actually it is a piece of flight test equipment. If the designers of the game would have done their homework they would have known it would not be on the production model.
I found a few photos showing it in real life F-35B's. I don't know if that means it's part of the production model or not (the lower photo definitely looks like some kind of test arrangement), but it is definitely funky looking.
http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/8/7 … 6807ff.jpghttp://img28.picoodle.com/img/img28/8/7 … 70dccb.jpgKinda makes you want to hand it a tissue, doesn't it?
actually, its a new takeoff system that they developed for the F-35 jets (i like to call them by their other name, JSF, or Joint Strike Fighter). it allows the plane to either take off in a nomral way, like from a runway or off of a carrier, or in a vertical manner, more like a helicopter. that feature is only in the marines variant of the JSF, which is, of course, the variant used in the game. there is a way to take off vertically in the game, but i forgot how. i think you double tap the S key. you can even see the engine bend down in the game if someone is doing a vertical takeoff.
as for the protrusion in the front which this thread is originally about, like i said before. most likely a sensor array. i dont think its a form of testing equipment like whoever said that said. because im pretty sure ive seen it on final versions of the JSF. i DO know that it has a really advanced radar system. actually, it has a pretty advanced everything. they made this jet as a cheaper, more efficient, yet technolgically advanced way to supply our armed forces with aircraft. theres also army and air force variants. they were supposed to replace pretty much every other fighter, especially the F-22 Raptor, because of how versatile they are. but i havent been keeping up with this stuff for a while, so im not sure if they ever really put it into decent action. but i knew about it a long time ago when it was still in development and barely anyone knew about it. and i loved everything about it