Can an F-35 VIFF?

[raketenjagdpanzer]

DIVAD was cancelled because Jesus Christ what a horrible joke of a weapons system.

APG-68 F16 radar that can't see past the tips of the 40mm guns if they're elevated too high.

Also said radar will go into reset mode if cannons are fired in long bursts due to vibration of the hull.

Said cannons ROF is too low to engage jets, too low to engage helos flying at oblique angles.

The hull is built on an M48 turret - plenty of spare parts, not nearly enough speed to keep up with Bradley and Abrams.

There are systems introduced that out of the box have "Teething issues". The M988 wasn't one of them: it was just plain broken from the get-go.

[Schone23666]

As I understand it with DIVAD, at the time they were trying to get some more modern mobile AA platform for the Army, which was lacking while the Soviets had several systems, among them the ZSU-23-4 for engaging low flying aircraft and helos. I remember at least a few reporters carping during Gulf War I at how the Iraqis had all these nasty mobile AA systems that would "tear apart" our A10's and helos, while we mostly had guys riding alongside the M1 tanks in humvees with Stingers.

I would say the "idea" of having a system like DIVAD wasn't necessarily bad at all, especially if they could've tweaked it to provide ground fire support in a pinch like the Russians did with the ZSU-23-4, though I heard the Russians lost a lot of ZSU's when they pressed them into that role. But once they started designing it with inferior components in a very sloppy and poor execution of said platform....ugh, yeah, enough said.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Schone23666

I would say the "idea" of having a system like DIVAD wasn't necessarily bad at all, especially if they could've tweaked it to provide ground fire support in a pinch like the Russians did with the ZSU-23-4, though I heard the Russians lost a lot of ZSU's when they pressed them into that role. But once they started designing it with inferior components in a very sloppy and poor execution of said platform....ugh, yeah, enough said.

The DIVAD was a poor excuse to use "off the shelf" components to provide something we needed at a time when defense budgets were getting slim for R&D. It was a PBI (Partially Baked Idea).