However, even if all the above is true, a nation that is at war against God as is increasingly manifest is heading to eventual defeat in any case, and in need of repentant faith in the risen Lord Jesus.
China is also at war with God. If we fight them, whose side would God be on? God could be totally neutral I suppose.
The F-35 is referred to as a jack of all trades, master of none. Designed by the JSF, the idea was to reduce costs through economy of scale. The well-aged F-22 is a superior fighter, but can no longer be produced (Lockheed Martin manufacturing facilities retooled to produce the F-35).
The mission of “our” military (well it’s “ours” because we pay for it) is to keep the world profitable for the merchants of death (”military industrial complex”). Well that and globalist colonial police force. OK also occasional relief work.
The man in the field want’s the strongest and most effective weapon for their immediate fight. The commanders, however, just want a weapon that’s reliable and is there for the fight. Tanks or planes the break down before the battle are of no value. Tanks or planes that take a long time and much logistics to repair are of no value. Only the materials that make it to the fight are of any value. The more complex the hardware the lower the reliability.
I had a boss who drove a Jaquar. He hated it. It was always in the shop. He lauded his 1960 Valiant. On questioning him about the repairs on the Jaquar, every electrical item had been rebuilt. The Valiant, on the other hand, had a heater and an AM radio. He loved the Valiant and hated the Jaquar.
You cannot ignore the impact of Tomahawks in that first Gulf war. This was also the first time they were used in combat and neutralized every target assigned to them - without the risk of a single aircraft - thus greatly reducing the risk to all aircraft and pilots which followed. And without the new VLS (Vertical Launching System) on Navy ships this volume of Tomahawk launches would have been impossible (122 per cruiser).
Yes, but the Biden Regime and the military, led by Gen Milley-Vanilli, has a surplus of incompetent "leadership".
Good against remotes is one thing.
Good against the living?
The F-35 seems to me like dating a stripper. Good looks, terrible followthrough.
While the range of AAAD has increased since the Iraq war, the graphic seems to show the exact opposite, worse the AAAD sites no longer overlap ... Seems like a PR effort to justify the F-35, rather than show a real world situation.
Speaking of which, there was a recent war game exercise against a peer in which no F-35s were deployed because they would not last more than a few minutes. Any stealth the 35 has is front-on only, and it is visible to passive AESA radars. There only usefulness would be guarding refuelers and AWACS against long range fighters like the J-20 - and because of the longer range BVR missiles employed by the J-20s, SU-57s, SU-35S’, they would be useless or marginal at best.
They would also be up against the best jamming systems in the world (at least against Russia) ; those same systems have successfully jammed GPS, HIMARS artillery, AC-160s, and C&C battle communications in Syria.
The buzz about hypersonic missiles isn't coincidence.