The F-35 Lightning's Vulnerability To Lightning Is Both Ironic And Unforgivable

Epoch Times ^ | 07/28/2023 | Mike Fredenburg

[BobL]

Take that Putin!!!! Let’s see your fighters deal with lightning. Not so easy, pal.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Lightning can be predicted.

[Gnome1949]

America’s military has evolved so much technologically, our military equipment is impotent.

We can never win a war now.

[Hodar]

Radar absorption, stealth
Laser communications
Internal weapons system with multiple target acquisition and targeting
Carbon fiber composite skin panels
Augmented Reality headset with mid-2000 design

Every design has trade offs

[algore]

I misread the headline, I thought it was about the Ford Lightning pickup that I would never buy.

Unfortunately I did buy a Saab Viggen once, and I still have the original plans and pictures of the Viking satellite.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

I misread the headline, I thought it was about the Ford Lightning pickup that I would never buy.

Another flop.

[Psalm 73]

"Every design has trade offs"

That's sort of the history of aviation right there.

Take the F-111. Please....

[Bayard]

...Or the vulnerability is a ruse from the DoD in order to keep secret what the F-35 is capable of in active operations.

[TalBlack]

“specificationed? “

In a lifetime of reading this is the first’s I ve seen of this word.

[maddog55]

It’s been a POS since it started at a massive cost to taxpayers with congress just throwing money at it like they do everything.

They’re coming off the assembly line and being parked until they can fix the problems..that tells you a lot.

[This_Dude]

We call it spec’d. Work in any factories where you guage out the specs on whatever you’re making, you’ll hear it pretty often

[PIF]

The B-21 could have the same problems

[skepsel]

“Superiority”, Arthur C. Clarke SF short story from 1951 about aliens losing a war due to possessing superior tech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiority_(short_story)

on line

https://www.baen.com/Chapters/1439133476/1439133476___5.htm

[higgmeister]

As I understand it, the F35 is a standoff platform.   What's the big deal?

[minnesota_bound]

The F-35 looks to be designed by people like those that designed the Titan sub.

[Hodar]

Every design has trade offs"
That's sort of the history of aviation right there.

Pretty much a law of engineering. All designs have flaws. The trick is to move the design flaw out of operational or functional space. And that’s not always possible; especially when someone is shooting ordinance at itu

[linMcHlp]

bkmk

[Sirius Lee]

Lightning can be predicted.

Good news for the chicoms. They'll know when to attack now.

[Joe 6-pack]

Was Stockton Rush on the design team?