The F-35
#1
Posted 11 January 2017 - 08:45 AM
#2
Posted 11 January 2017 - 09:20 AM
-- Too expensive
-- Undergunned/hillariously low payload
-- pittyfull maneuverability
-- stealth systems where the most expensive part on that plane and deliver marginaly less radar cross section than the supersonic maneuverable Eurofighter Typhoon
-- problems with lifesupport systems and electronics (wich where underdeveloped and/or outdated from first day of production)
-- touchscreen system in cockpit can't be operated savely during flight maneuvers due to too high sensibility
-- retrofitted voicecontroll system wich...oh well....
American engineering at its finest
#3
Posted 11 January 2017 - 10:11 AM
edit: http://www.defensene...ombat/87948142/
most people have cars why newer then any Air Force jets
there have always been developmental problems with Jet Fighters
F111, F4, A10 you name it
Edited by Davegt27, 11 January 2017 - 10:35 AM.
#4
Posted 11 January 2017 - 10:22 AM
And that thing is a cow compared to good ol' F-16, F-18, and the tough, crude monsters the Russians fly.
#5
Posted 11 January 2017 - 11:04 AM
how much flack the M1 Abrams tank had
there was even a 60 minute segment on how bad the tank would be
lucky for us the M1 tank program proceeded
enemies of the US would hate for the US to get any new fighter and they will do anything to kill programs
most of the stuff you hear is propaganda designed to kill the F35 program
#6
Posted 11 January 2017 - 02:07 PM
#7
Posted 11 January 2017 - 07:22 PM
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you mean the F22 right?
#8
Posted 13 January 2017 - 01:16 PM
#9
Posted 14 January 2017 - 09:28 AM
http://www.duffelblo...strike-fighter/
F35 was never canceled.
#10
Posted 15 January 2017 - 09:21 PM
I'm not a big fan, especially the B model. (HA HA it has a lift fan, get it?) maybe because I've been salty about it way before being salty was a phrase. I work for another aerospace company.
Regardless, I do have a cool video I took of it, since my job takes me places that are very cool, and I still love to watch the dang thing fly.
#11
Posted 16 January 2017 - 10:01 PM
https://thinkprogres...c29e#.x4i0r4wp2
#12
Posted 16 January 2017 - 11:46 PM
war machines or homeless people
its obvious the person that wrote that article is not from the US
why because it cost thousands and thousands of dollars in taxes each year to own a house
we spend way to much money on black projects and war machines
we also keep getting attacked and because it takes so long to develop these machines
its like a catch 22
#13
Posted 17 January 2017 - 09:12 AM
Kalimaster, on 11 January 2017 - 02:07 PM, said:
Bizarre claim. Where did that come from?
Obamacare/ACA was funded mostly by a few percent in taxes on people with >$200k in income.
F35 spending went way up, coincidentally just when the ACA was passed, because they started actually building the factories to build the planes. And about 200 have already been built, and I think two squadrons are already in operation.
If anything it has seemed a bit more shaky since the presidential election, as Trump tweeted about the programs cost a few times. Easiest way to cut cost is to cut the number of planes.
Edited by Jeeeeeef, 17 January 2017 - 09:13 AM.
#14
Posted 17 January 2017 - 09:54 AM
It's kind of like taking a Catapault/Mad Dog and slapping on SRMs with ERLL.
When you attempt to make the vehicle capable of every role, you just get one that's ****** at everything. The reason the US has the older planes is in no small part because jets like the A-10 and the F-16 are still better in their respective roles than newer equipment.....in no small part because the military contracting is process is corrupt and bloated beyond almost all comprehension.
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