F-35 DAS and APG-81 radar for the JSF detect multiple rocket launches 

@Blob B OMG!

Night vision? They are extremely advanced Long Wave Infrared Wave sensors

@Vir Singh nice

How you know its 600 KM..jst asking any source??

@@terribletrinity m very sorry for my misinformation. The distance was 1200km because the testbed BAC-1-11 equipped with APG-81 & DAS sensor take off from Thurgood Marshall Airport, Baltimore. After reaching parallel distance in atlanic, that testbed detected 5 Falcon 9(2 staged rockets) launched from NG facility in Cape canaveral. Distance from Baltimore & Cape Canaveral is about 780 miles. In its description NG stated that it can detect & track hight IR ballastic missile from 1300km. I think 600km range was for fighter aircrafts, you can study about it, just search for F-35 DAS test cape canaveral.

​@@thetopsecretpentagonsclass6350this test was recorded from a Northrop Grumman facility watching a launch from Wallop Island, Virginia on March 27, 2012. So how was this 1,300 kilometers or 800 miles away??? Genuinely asking.

@@j.d.604 this test is recorded from BAC-1-11 aircraft not island.

Can u tell me the distance from where that thing is launched and from where f-35 is detecting it

​@@terribletrinity1,300 km, 800 miles

Smile to the flash off light.

the f-35 can only carry 2 missles internally

4 internally? thats nothing

Soon to be 6 internally. And the F-35 never operates alone, but will usually operate in packs of 4 aircraft. That's at least 24 air to air missiles. And the F-35 will be able to fire missiles from US destroyers at targets the destroyers can't see because of the horizon.

In Sqaudrons...its more than 1 f-35.. which = more weapons, better tracking and targeting which means this scenario isnt difficult to negate.

1,300km

gtamodman122 so far no! F35 payload is too small and too dangerous to work on it. The solution might be cooperating with payload air-tanks such as F-15/F18 with long distance ABM! Or US can sell SM3 to us - Taiwan ^ ^ We are welcome F35B and shutdown any ballistic missiles from China

800 miles , 1,300km

800 miles(1300km)

@@bq1000bq where was jet then and where was launch took place (names)

@@bq1000bq damn. Insane for fighter mounted radar.

f-35 be guiding sm6's soon :)

Approx. 42069mi

Geir it is real images. Light intensity is function of distance as I= k / r^2 , so if distance is too long delta-I will approach to zero. The target is 300 miles away sensors than the delta-I is 1/ (300*1.61*1000/10）^2=4.23e-10 here is compare to a commercial FLIR sensor (detection range 10 meters) So the FLIR sensor 「Sensitivity」is magical performance.