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Something has to be wrong with this picture, I mean they already have a truly superior manned fighter in the F22... What the hell are they doing?
Chicken Little Alert
Yeah, it is.
The JSF meets it’s performance bogeys as spelled out in the JSF specifications.
Those specifications do not reflect an aircraft that ‘can’t turn, can’t climb, can’t run’
The F-35 does exactly what it was intended to do and does it well.
Pratt & Whitney should be fired.
I guess they shouldn’t have canceled the F-22.
It underperforms in every fighter measure compared to our current fighter, and in every potential adversary. Its obese, suffers from low thrust, and high wing loads.
Even its defenders don’t pretend its a dog fighting hot rod. They simply point out that its electronics and fire control, and integration make dogfighting pointless.
Essentially claiming that those things will always win in any air combat encounter.
But if that was the case, a B-2 with the same missiles could defeat any enemy force.
Facts are stubborn things, it cannot outrun, outclimb, or out turn a Suhkoi, an F-15, an F-16, or an F-15.
I’ve got an old book on my shelves explaining why the F-15 should be cancelled along with the F-16. I keep it to remember how full of dog poop many of these writers are.
I have a general military question about pilot training. If one is trained mainly in one aspect of flying, say air superiority, would he be as well trained and responsive in other areas, like first strike.
I’m asking this question along the lines of, if a plane can do everything, whether a well trained pilot can do all things well as well?
That’s not to say that a well-trained pilot can’t do everything a pilot is supposed to do, but like any job, if you specialize in a specific area it will generally hurt you in other areas.
Another example would be accounting. There are general accountants, who can pretty much do everything. However, if you sent him into an audit position, he probably wouldn’t be as proficient as an auditor as somebody who has been an auditor for thirty years.
The biggest mistake since the TFX program, and no amount of spin or Rah Rah will change that. It’s an expensive piece of ****.
everything i’ve heard is that the F-22 was a superior aircraft... when you remove the sabotage board courtesy of china (and the progressives enabling them)
0failure mothballed it in favor of the F-35 ... which, by all accounts, isn’t very good
meanwhile, the left has insured the chinese received the plans for the F-22... and they’ve been cranking those out, minus the sabotage ofc, for a few years
treason is being committed in so many areas, people barely notice it thru the desensitized haze
F-111 for the 21st century!