Posted on 02/10/2025 7:39:58 AM PST by hardspunned
Elon Musk @elonmusk The F-35 design was broken at the requirements level, because it was required to be too many things to too many people. This made it an expensive & complex jack of all trades, master of none. Success was never in the set of possible outcomes. And manned fighter jets are obsolete in the age of drones anyway. Will just get pilots killed.
The US Air Force Secretary admitted in April 2024 that fewer than a third of F-35s built by Lockheed Martin are actually operational.
Ex-US Congressman Matt Gaetz labels the F-35 as a "$100M paperweight", pointing out its low effectiveness and return on investment.
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How many hundreds of billions will be skimmed by the MIC oligarchs who will be doing most of the maintenance?
Don’t let Elon near this vital weapon system. It’s the only thing keeping the Soviets at bay.
If the flying Moon pig is the only thing between us and the erstwhile Soviet union, we were screwed anyway.
Isn’t the F-22 Raptor a better plane?
I spent a career in defense. The problem with every system is once it’s funded everyone jumps on it to convert it to the thing “they” need.
Soviets? Where have you been?
I’m pretty sure when fighting the Russians or Chinese, both will be shown to be obsolete. Check out the capabilities of the S500.
That’s a toughie. I’m old enough to remember the C5A boondoggle, a 747 sized cargo plane whose only advantage was the ability to open the front end to empty it’s cargo. Came in handy during the 1973 Yom Kipper war but that’s about it. The ‘whistleblower’ named Fitzgerald was transferred to a base in Thailand managing bowling alleys.
Something’s going on.
Isn’t that the one that we cant make more of w/o starting from scratch because Obama had the tooling/dies/blueprints etc. all destroyed?
Agree. One of the worst platforms ever.
“everyone jumps on it to convert it to the thing “they” need.”
And that’s exactly what has happened to this platform.....every military branch that uses it has modified it to fit their needs.
Yes, the F22 is stellar.
A much, much better aircraft. Absolutely fantastic fighter.
$36.5 trillion in national debt, trillions more in consumer debt and student debt, trillions in state-level debt, county debt, municipal debt. alongside the delightful news from the USAID and Treasury scandals that the government has been spending on all sorts of fraudulent things. So, yeah.
---- "...we were screwed anyway."
Why do we even need it? We won’t be fighting any NATO countries and we’ve all been told that Russia and China make sub standard aircraft.
It could also take off and land on dirt. No small thing there for a military transport plane.
Yes ....but Obama had the tooling jigs scrapped
Maybe Elon Musk can reverse engineer a new set of tools to make some more
and smaller ones to act as drones.
I’ve been listening to why I’ve been told we’ve sunk $200 billion into the Uke pit. Where have YOU been? Didn’t you know 2/24/22 was the opening operation for Vlad’s revanchist Soviet Union? Don’t you know that only Winston Z saved us from the Red Menace? No? Go back to 2/24/22 start reading the thousands and thousands of disinfo pieces posted here slinging that BS.
“And manned fighter jets are obsolete in the age of drones anyway.”
Manned fighter jets are going to be with us for a long time.
Pretty sure he's joking. Obviously the real threat are the Moon Nazis. That's what they are really protecting us from.
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