The F-35 Like You Have Never Seen It Before

Giz modo ^ | 5/17/10 | Jesus Diaz

[PIF]

You forgot the blind! I once met a guy who was blind and seriously tried to buy a commercial salmon gillnetter because we fished at night.

[hadit2here]

You are being very insensitive. “Blind” is a pejorative term used in negative phrases like “blind as a bat”. The proper terms are “sight impaired” or “alternately sighted”. Older terms would be “visually challenged” and “gifted”, but those have now fallen out of favor, as there could have been someone found who objected to them.

Please make the required changes to your vocabulary or you will be sent to the re-education camps for your recalcitrance and lack of sensitivity to the “differently abled”.

—Dept. of Equality for Enabling, Naming and Language Neutralization.

[PapaBear3625]

These weapons are very nearly useless against the enemy we're presently "at war" with. That war requires intelligence to locate the enemy. Once he's located, he quickly become most sincerely dead with our existing weapons.

At some point in the next 10 years, we stand a good chance of getting into a war with China, at which point we will be facing top of the line fighters.

Even if we get into a war with Iran or Pakistan, we will need something that will shoot down whatever they might send up with a minimum of US casualties. We won the air war with Iraq (both wars) by being so far ahead of them that their pilots didn't bother trying to commit suicide by coming up to face us.

[PIF]

“Please make the required changes to your vocabulary or you will be sent to the re-education camps for your recalcitrance and lack of sensitivity to the ‘differently abled’.”

Dear Dept. of Equality for Enabling, Naming and Language Neutralization,

I would but you see, I'm from the Recent Stone Age - prior to 1980. And as such have already lost everything (through actions by the Dept. of Equal Rights for Treaty Tribal People), so when you do send me off to one of your luxury camps it will be a life style improvement.

Thank you for considering me.

Sincerely,
PIF

[Sherman Logan]

I would like to see a reference that Chinese fighter planes are a significant threat to our control of the air.

[PapaBear3625]

I would like to see a reference that Chinese fighter planes are a significant threat to our control of the air.

The defender must be ready at all times. The aggressor does not need to arm up until he's ready to attack.

China has lots of cash to buy the technology to crank out the latest Russian designs. They may not be nearly as good as ours, but they can bring a LOT of them to the party.