Posted on 09/11/2015 5:47:41 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
The REAL question is:
Will Israel be able to complete these modifications and take delivery of the aircraft before 0bama's muzzie bros nuke them?
Sure hope they dont sell them, let others peek...
That’s Adir !.......................
Tow it with an F16.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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My guess Iran will object, the US being obligated to aid them in securing their nuclear facilities.
If I were Iran, I wouldn't count on that. Obama is a Muslim, but he is a treacherous little sneak, and no other succeeding President would adhere to that--because it isn't a treaty.
A lot of the time, it may take a while to get from your air base to where the enemy has his radars. When you get close to enemy lines, you drop the external tanks.
The Mullahs are smart enough not to trust Obama, they know how to play him. But it gives them an reason for non compliance. Not that it matters, as you note this “agreement” is valid only at the whim of Obama, who won’t be here in 2016. Which gives Iran plenty of time to get any assets in the US out. And if they’re smart, to have a working bomb with which to complicate things for the next President.
As a purpose-built strike fighter, it likely has no equal on the planet...and that's before the Israelis have had a chance to mess with it.
It features a HUGE engine, LOTS of internal space, impressive combat radius, very POWERFUL integrated computing systems and a stealthy, and rather sexy I think, body built for business and the pleasure of its pilots and maintainers!
What's not to like?
Adding to that its mission flexibility of being able to load it up internally or externally and you have a very capable fighting machine that makes mission planners happy, too.
No wonder the propagandists who loathe the military and do their best to undermine our forces hate it so much.
Their only way to stop it has been to make it expensive and unpopular via the bureaucrazy bureaucracy and propaganda techniques they've become infamous at using.
Unfortunately, that has worked well enough on the F-35 just as it has on all the rest of our military, which a quick inventory of assets and opinion will confirm.
"Short-sighted" - a Hebrew word meaning "pretty f'ing stupid."
My understanding is there are several “off switches” in the software that can be operated remotely by the USA.
Part of the issue with the F35 has been, and remains, Israel’s ability to strip out all the hardware and firmware and prevent someone like Obama from preventing Israel from defending itself.
You do know you are repeating a lie generated by the Russians to harm Israel, don’t you?
Or is that also your intent?
I’m waiting for the traitor in the executive branch (make that an all inclusive plural) to put sanctions on Israel.
That is a really interesting idea.
Why not some type of tow system. Imagine an airliner or cargo plane hooking up and towing a dozen to and from a war zone.
It isn’t an F22.
I would like a bunch of F35s, a bunch of F22s, and a whole bunch of new A10s (rebuild the production lines).
Hopefully that can be circumvented, if true.
You are telling me that Israel has no history of US tech in its own products, then selling them to China.
Right..?
It’s true, and a live issue.
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/israel-plans-to-buy-over-100-f35s-02381/
(towards the bottom)
I was directly involved with the Lavi program and know the allegations that it was sold to China to be complete bullshit, generated by Russia after not one, but two, military defeats of Russian pilots (in 1970 and 1982) where we shot them down to the tune of 80-1.
If you drill down to the bullshit story, you will learn the “source” is a couple of Russians who claim to have seem a Lavi being unloaded in China.
I happen to know exactly where both Lavi prototypes are sitting at this exact moment, and I can assure you there are both in Israel.
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