Posted on 07/10/2015 10:26:26 AM PDT by C19fan
The Pentagon’s new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is dead meat in a close battle against even a dated two-seat F-16D fighter jet, according to a scathing test pilot report War Is Boring obtained.
Don’t sweat it, JSF-maker Lockheed Martin responded. “The F-35’s technology is designed to engage, shoot and kill its enemy from long distances,” Lockheed’s F-35 team wrote in a press release on July 1.
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perhaps ... and even if they’re only exaggerating by only 50 %, then 50 % of their criticisms ARE legitimate ...
The F-35 worries me.
Isn’t this a stealth craft? Isn’t it also VTOL? It looks to me like it has a good chance with the right pilot. If there’s an aviator, maybe they can say more.
What do you expect ,The Pentagon is controlled by Obama and his Criminals
Did I read someplace that the AF wants to use this plane for ground support missions?
If that is the case how are they going to maintain the stand off distance harped above?
Not to mention lazy individuals who seem to divert from answering in favor of talking about how wonderful PC America is.
Could it be that we’ve reached the point of diminishing returns, technologically speaking, with fighter aircraft, and that, just maybe, this new generation (post F-15, F-16, F/A-18) are just hyper-expensive, hyper high-maintenance white elephants that don’t deliver any more bang for the buck, and maybe quite less, than the current generation?
And when it’s armed up for close air support, the stealthiness is gone or at least severely degraded.
There are some things you just don’t screw up, some lessons you can’t afford to learn the hard way. Air dominance is probably one of those things.
Well maybe there can be a bill to stop funding the F-35.
It’s a non-working, over priced and over hyped. .. .
Hmm... yeah not anytime soon I suppose. Guess as long as our AF is pitted against ISIS we’re okay though, as Iran I believe has F14’s. Don’t want to pick a fight with those.
I’m just a dumba$$ retired Soldier, but that is an interesting point.
Considering they are in pristine condition (or should be)
as they haven't flown in 30 years.
What worries me is they stopped the F-22 to pay for the stealth flying pig. I would not be so worried about the F-35 if we F-22s than can dog fight and the F-35 would do the strike part.
and neither am I. It is an unethical boondoggle sponsored by Lockheed.
Can’t fight long range, can’t fight short range... just burns holes in the sky.
What a miserable POS.
0bama shut down the f-22 and promoted the f-35
Do you need anymore information as to which is better for America?
Actually, they used to fly a lot. If they could find parts.
A half-century ago it was said “The F-4’s technology is designed to engage, shoot and kill its enemy from long distances”.
They were wrong then, too.
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