joint strike fighter
Arabic translation: المقاتلة الضاربة المشتركة
| 21:05 Jun 4, 2001 |
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المقاتلة الضاربة المشتركة Explanation: The key to translating this military term is to find out what is meant by “joint” in the phrase. What does this adjective modify? Does it refer to “strike,” to “fighter,” or to something else? There is no explicit explanation anywhere, but there are hints here and there. For example, here is what the Royal Air Force says about it: http://www.raf.mod.uk/airpower/jsf.html “Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) will be a single-seat, supersonic aircraft incorporating stealth technology due to replace RAF Harrier GR7/GR9s and Royal Navy Sea Harrier F/A2s in the early part of the next decade. Capable of performing multi-role operations from aircraft carrier and land, two consortia, one led by Boeing (with the X-32) and the other by Lockheed Martin (the X-35), are in competition to win orders from not only UK forces, but also the US Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps where it will replace the F-16 Fighting Falcon, AV-8 Harrier and F/A-18 Hornet. Possible total production of the JSF is estimated to be some 5,000 aircraft including export models. Current plans call for some 150 aircraft for the RAF and RN.” One could conclude that “joint” refers to the aircraft’s “multi-role” capabilities or to the joint procurement by the UK and various US military services. The latter possibility is reinforced by the following statement from Boeing: http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/jsf/ “The Boeing Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) One Team is developing an affordable, next-generation, multi-role strike fighter for the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps and the U.K. Royal Air Force and Royal Navy. The Boeing JSF is a stealthy, survivable and highly lethal weapon system that meets the military services' performance requirements while achieving strict affordability targets.” The following statement by the US air force clarifies the issue further: http://www.af.mil/news/Nov1996/n19961120_961171.html “The JSF program, formerly the Joint Advanced Strike Technology Program, will develop and field a tri-service -- Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps -- family of next generation strike aircraft with an emphasis on affordability.” This statement makes it very clear that “joint” is a legacy term, inherited from an earlier phrase in which the term “joint” originally referred neither to “strike” nor to the fighter itself, but rather to the “Program” which had a “tri-service” objective. The tri-service aspect is the issue, so in the present phrase, the reference is to the fighter, not the strike capability. The translation I am proposing is based on this understanding. The importance of this distinction is the phrasing as well as the gender of the term MUSHTARAKA. For those who wish to read more bout JSF, here is an excellent link: http://www.jast.mil/IEFrames.htm “X-32 Background The Boeing JSF program is creating an affordable, next-generation strike fighter that, if selected, will replace the aging aircraft of the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps as well as the U.K. Royal Navy and Royal Air Force and those of our allies. The Boeing JSF is designed to be powerful, lightweight, and extremely maneuverable. With an expected 15,000 pounds of internal fuel and both internal and external ordnance carriage capabilities, its designed combat radius and payload surpass that of the legacy aircraft that it is intended to replace. The Boeing JSF has combined and enhanced the characteristics of Boeing's entire lineage of strike fighters into a stealthy, supersonic, and highly maneuverable aircraft. The Boeing JSF is designed to accelerate faster and be more agile than any other legacy strike fighters. The 2-D thrust-vectored P&W F119 derivative engine will enable pilots to exploit the aerodynamic qualities of the aircraft.” Fuad See citations above |
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