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It would be wonderful. 15 years of development and not a single unit is fully operational. It's another F-111.
Except the F-111 was designed and built 4 decades ago, but was faster and carried a heavier payload than the F-35. Oh, and had 3-4x the Range.
Oh, and it lost it's first dogfight with another 70s era airframe, the F-16.
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2015/07/robert-farago/the-f35-sucks/
"B-b-b-but, Beyond Visual Range! One missile, one kill! Dogfighting is a thing of the past. Shut up about Vietnam and the Bekaa Valley!"
Jesus Christ it's a piece of shit.
Thanks Republican voters.Not for trump but for your stupidity for allowing this waste of taxes which you ignorant bastards despise. You need to work harder to keep up this MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX SOCIALISM.
Thanks Republican voters.Not for trump but for your stupidity for allowing this waste of taxes which you ignorant bastards despise. You need to work harder to keep up this MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX SOCIALISM.
Trump seems to be have the correct solution here.
Trump seems to be have the correct solution here.
Yes, and it will be interesting to see what happens if he follows through. A lot of Trump supporters get their bread and butter from these wasteful defense contracts, especially in the rust belt.
(I forgot to add, the F-111 didn't take 15 years from approval to operational status)
Thanks Republican voters.Not for trump but for your stupidity for allowing this waste of taxes which you ignorant bastards despise. You need to work harder to keep up this MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX SOCIALISM.
Trump seems to be have the correct solution here.
Most of what is being said by those on the right is talk that is the other side of the coin which is represented by those talking point Democrats. It's mostly sensationalism for the MSM.
I will watching to see what can be done by the Republicans after they are sworn in. I don't really believe that anything will change the left /right paradigm.
Whether screwed by the right or screwed by left.
One thing's for sure we're SCREWED.
@HEY YOU - a word of advice whether you like it or not, and it's not just you that does this. When you can't ever give credit or constantly put down an individual or a party because of your personal political ideology and/or bias, you discredit yourself immensely to where fewer and fewer people read your posts or take you seriously.
Take Dan as an example in this thread. I disagree with some of what he says, but I also agree with many of his ideas. But because he believes in ideas and concepts based on their merit, I actually read his posts and genuinely think about them.
When you constantly engage in ad hominem, you become noise that I (and many others) just start to filter out.
Trump seems to be have the correct solution here.
Yes, and it will be interesting to see what happens if he follows through. A lot of Trump supporters get their bread and butter from these wasteful defense contracts, especially in the rust belt.
Maybe true for other defense contractors but not Lockheed
Yes, but Trump is talking about negotiating better deals with all contractors. If he follows through, it will be an industry wide bust, and I'm all for that.
More deficiencies with the F-35A:
* Cannot designate ground targets for other aircraft. Only has a laser designation system for it's own craft to use GBU-12 bombs
* Only carries two bombs and two AAMs, otherwise it is unstealthy (yet marketing bragsheets have it sneaking up and using up to 6 AMRAAMS, 4 of which would have to be wing mounted and then goodbye Stealth due to wingmounted missiles that reflect radar)
* Doesn't really supercruise !!! Yeah, the supercruise only works if it goes on afterburner and then maintains a high level of thrust. It can't supercruise without the afterburner boosting it first
* Is not a self-contained solution, and will still need jamming and acquisition support when searching for and engaging targets (another bragsheet claim busted)
* And much, much more
The afterburner apparently burns off the stealth coating, also.
These things won't be fixed under the current plan which is already years out and behind schedule.
For the love of god, nix this thing.
Leaked Pentagon memo of September 2016:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3035572-DOT-amp-E-AF-IOC-Memo.html#document/p4/a316106
I have a few close friends who worked on the F35 program back in the day. They said it's way over budget and is a colossal waste of tax payer money.
Lockheed hired a ton of heads for the project without giving them anything to do. They mentioned of the millions in dollars spent on labs - that don't actually do anything, and tons of employees who just muck around all day.
That plane rolled off the assembly line (the first demo) back in 2006 I think. Since then, it's just sat around for the last 11 years leaking oil.
Trump Republicans were guaranteed to not lose any money on their investments.
Why haven't Rep/Cons controlled,"out of control" to date?
Heard this on NPR this morning, but can't find a link there, so Bloomberg...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-12/lockheed-drops-as-trump-tweets-f-35-costs-are-out-of-control
It would be a great thing if Trump follows through on this. Of course, all those welfare queens making weapons will be shit out of luck. Fuck them.
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