[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Je suis American!

[ArtDodger]

Which one is The Jericho? “Let one of these off the leash, and the bad guys won’t even want to come out of their cave.”

[Rembrandt]

This is an illustration of how it’s always been with American warcraft builders. America likes multi-capability fighter bombers (we used to refer to the F-4 as a pig in Danang.)

The Commies build fighters, period. They have a few missiles and a cannon but that’s about it. The reason U.S. aircraft prevail in dogfights is superior training and that’s about the only diff.

IMHO

[Vermont Lt]

Its not enough. There is never enough.

[RayChuang88]

There’s one thing it didn’t show: the B61 nuclear bomb. Given that the B61 is the primary gravity-dropped nuclear weapon in the US stockpile, one wonders if the F-35 has been tested to drop such a weapon.

[pabianice]

On the ground. Word is it can’t fly required missions.

[MasterGunner01]

The problem for the USAF is that by adding ejector rack pylons for bombs/missiles you've defeated the aircraft's stealth design and made it vulnerable to SAMs and radar directed AAA. The F-35 is a very, very expensive bomb truck of dubious use in a real war. The USAF cannot afford to buy these platinum and gold plated fighter bombers in any useful numbers. The late model F-16s and F-15s are still going to do the heavy lifting (along with the A-10 for REAL close air support).

[usurper]

I am not sure but with all that junk hanging off it I don’t think the stealth features are going to be much good. It will give it the radar cross section of a school bus.

[RicocheT]

F-35, late and billions over budget. It barely flies with no attached arms, needs a trailing dedicated tanker and costs so much we only will buy a few. We’d be better buying the Red Chinese version built with stolen plans as it at least will cost less.

[SZonian]

Well...this oughta bring out all of FR’s aviation “experts”...can’t wait to read all of the “informed” posts vs. inane opinion. /s

[RhoTheta]

Excellent pix!

[Zathras]

Is it just me or does that look like the “Auto Pilot” from “Airplane” behind the controls?
LOL