As one commenter put it, this is a dead end for USMC planning. The USMC will do anything; say anything, to market the F-35. There are no other priorities for the USMC.
"Wake up Marines. Move on. Before the art of war leaves you behind."
Well this too.
| Russian / Chinese Weapon | NATO Designation | Western Weapon | Notes |
| KAB-500L | - | GBU-16 Paveway II | |
| KAB-500Kr | - | GBU-8 HOBOS | DSMAC seeker |
| KAB-500S/S-E | - | GBU-32/35 JDAM | |
| KAB-1500L | - | GBU-10 Paveway II | 3,000 lb Weapon |
| KAB-1500Kr | - | GBU-8 HOBOS | 3,000 lb Weapon; DSMAC seeker |
| KAB-1500S/S-E | - | GBU-31 JDAM | 3,000 lb Weapon |
| KAB-1500TK | - | GBU-15 CWW; Spice | 3,000 lb Weapon |
| Kh-22 Burya | AS-4 Kitchen | Avro Blue Steel | Supersonic |
| Kh-29L | AS-14B Kedge | AS.30 Laser; AGM-65E Maverick | Supersonic |
| Kh-29T/TE | AS-14A Kedge | AGM-65B Maverick; | Supersonic |
| Kh-31A/P/MA/MP | AS-17 Krypton | None | MA-31 target drone; Supersonic |
| Kh-35U Uran | AS-20 Kayak | AGM-84 Harpoon | |
| 3M-24 Uran | SS-N-20 Switchblade | AGM-84 Harpoon | |
| Kh-41/3M-80/3M-82 Moskit | SS-N-22 Sunburn | None | Supersonic |
| Kh-55 Granat | AS-15A Kent | BGM-109C TLAM | |
| Kh-55SM Granat | AS-15B Kent | AGM-86C CALCM | |
| Kh-59M/MK Ovod | AS-18 Kazoo | AGM-142 Popeye | Turbojet powered |
| Kh-61/3M-55/PJ-10 Yakhont/Brahmos | SS-N-26 | None | Supersonic |
| 3M-54E1 | SS-N-27 Sizzler | BGM-109B TASM | |
| 3M-54E | SS-N-27 Sizzler | None | Supersonic |
| 3M-14E | SS-N-27 Sizzler | BGM-109C TLAM | |
| HY-1/C-101 | CSS-N-1 Silkworm | None | |
| HY-2/C-201 | CSS-N-2 Seersucker | None | |
| HY-4/C-401 | CSS-C-7 Sadsack | None | |
| YJ-6/C-601 | CAS-1A Kraken | None | |
| YJ-61/C-611 | CAS-1B Kraken | None | |
| KD-63 | - | None | TV/Datalink |
| YJ-62/C-602 | - | AGM-109/BGM-109B | LACM variant expected |
| YJ-8/C-801 | CSS-N-4 Sardine | MM.39/AM.39 Exocet | |
| YJ-82/C-802 | CSS-N-8 Saccade | AGM-84 Harpoon | |
| KD-82/C-802KD | - | AGM-84E SLAM | |
| YJ-83/C-803 | - | AGM-84 Harpoon | |
| YJ-7/C-701 | - | AJ-168 Martel | |
| DH-10 | - | BGM-109A/C |
How about ballistic missiles?
(click image to make larger - partial APA chart)
CHICOM JDAMs etc.
Artillery?
Rockets?
Mortars?
The F-35 fan-base doesn't understand that targeting of bases for the more sophisticated weapons will be within minutes. Not hours. Not days. A few years ago we lost a handful of Harriers based in hostile territory. Against non-state actors without a first line Army, Navy or Air Force.
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-Value of STOVL F-35B over-hyped
-Is this aircraft worth over $51B of USMC tac-air funding?
-The F-35B design is leaking fuel
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-Time's Battleland - 5 Part series on F-35 procurement - 2013
-Summary of Air Power Australia F-35 points
-Bill Sweetman, Aviation Week and the F-35
-U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) F-35 reports
-F-35 JSF: Cold War Anachronism Without a Mission
-History of F-35 Production Cuts
-Looking at the three Japan contenders (maneuverability)
-How the Canadian DND misleads the public about the F-35
-Value of STOVL F-35B over-hyped
-Cuckoo in the nest--U.S. DOD DOT&E F-35 report is out
-6 Feb 2012 Letter from SASC to DOD boss Panetta questioning the decision to lift probation on the F-35B STOVL.
-USAFs F-35 procurement plan is not believable
-December 2011 Australia/Canada Brief
-F-35 Key Performance Perimeters (KPP) and Feb 2012 CRS report
-F-35 DOD Select Acquisition Report (SAR) FY2012
-Release of F-35 2012 test report card shows continued waste on a dud program
-Australian Defence answers serious F-35 project concerns with "so what?"
-Land of the Lost (production cut history update March 2013)
-Outgoing LM F-35 program boss admits to flawed weight assumptions (March 2013)
-A look at the F-35 program's astro-turfing
-F-35 and F-16 cost per flying hour
-Is this aircraft worth over $51B of USMC tac-air funding?
-Combat radius and altitude, A model
-F-35A, noise abatement and airfields and the USAF
-Deceptive marketing practice: F-35 blocks
-The concurrency fraud
-The dung beetle's "it's known" lie
-F-35's air-to-air ability limited
-F-35 Blocks--2006 and today
-The F-35B design is leaking fuel
-F-35 deliveries
-ADF's wacky F-35 assumptions
-Gauging performance, the 2008 F-35, Davis dream brief
-Aboriginal brought out as a prop
-Super Kendall's F-35 problem
-LM sales force in pre-Internet era
-History of F-35 engine problems
-Compare
-JSF hopes and dreams...early days of the Ponzi Scheme
-The Prognostics
-2002--Australia joins the F-35 program
-Congressional Research Service--Through to FY2013, F-35 has received $83.3B in funding
-F-35 choice gives Dutch a shocking high cost per flight hour
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