F-35 JSF engine too big for regular transport at sea

ELP Defense ^ | 11/30/2010 | ELP Defense

[Robert A Cook PE]

“Recommend” to Pres Obama (or anything else coming from the military) means nothing. (Actually, just the recommendation alone gives Obama plenty of cover - there’s nothing that says he’ll do it, but he gets publicity for GE being “recommended” out of the funding.

Then GE gets the funding anyway. Even Goldman Sachs was willing to take a 25 million dollar “fine” in return for a 200 billion bailout package.

[DesScorp]

"I wonder if all these “facts” are accurate or just invented by people who don’t want the JSF?! Do you think it is legit problems?"

Oh, the problems are legit. There's a big community of conservatives that don't like the JSF because we saw it for what it was... a McNamara-esque replay of the TFX fiasco in the 60's. Pierre Sprey... the lead designer of both the A-10 and F-16... has stated that the JSF is exactley the opposite kind of thinking that produces excellent fighters, and that you can't get good airplanes by committee. And the JSF is the ultimate plane-by-committee. It's slower, heavier, louder, and far more expensive than the F-16's it's supposed to replace. It has one real virtue... more range than a teen series fighter, and that's about it. It's "stealth" is weaksauce (stealthy only from a head-on profile), and useless against the newer X-band radars.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Pierre Sprey

one of McNamara's "whiz kids" is well down the road of dementia.