{"id":442507,"date":"2026-05-31T17:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-f-35-cooling-system-solves-problem-grounded-predecessor-years\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:00:18","slug":"how-the-f-35s-cooling-system-solves-a-problem-that-grounded-its-predecessor-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=442507","title":{"rendered":"How The F-35&#8217;s Cooling System Solves A Problem That Grounded Its Predecessor For Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heat management is one of the great challenges of modern fighter jet engineering. Reducing the Infrared signature from the heat exhaust is one of the key aspects of modern stealth aircraft design, on par with reducing the radar cross-section. STOVL aircraft, like the AV-8B Harrier II and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-35\/\"  >F-35<\/a><\/span> have forced navies to protect their decks from hot vertical exhausts. Meanwhile, the hot exhaust from the F-35C <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2051377\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-us-navy-raving-stealth-fighters-achievement\/\" >required the Navy to retrofit the decks of its ships<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The F-35 has made massive strides in its thermal management systems compared with older aircraft, but this remains one of the biggest 6th-gen issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,748,628,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442510,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442507\/revisions\/442510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}