Posted on 09/25/2025 3:25:48 PM PDT by MarlonRando
Lockheed Martin is using AI to evolve the F-35 jet, integrating drones into its system to boost capability and relevance. But after missing out on big contracts due to increased competition and tariffs, can Lockheed pivot to stay relevant?
WSJ visited Lockheed Martin’s facilities in Fort Worth, Texas, to get a closer look at the jets and their new capabilities.
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Why we plan to use them to fight China over Taiwan escapes me. Let Asia worry about Asia, and the Middle east worry about themselves, and let Ukraine be ruled from Moscow. Let’s worry about ourselves. America first. America Only. We are not World Police and no one wants the endless wars except the folks who profit from them.
There’s a 2019 movie, “Angel Has Fallen,” starring the versatile Morgan Freeman as the President. The plot is all about an assassination attempt and a coup by the VP. On Roku.
Anyway, what you need to see is the drone attack used to carry out the attempt. It isn’t that far into the movie. Yes, it’s all CGI, but if we have just a fraction of that, bye bye ground forces.
Interesting... and frightening at the same time.
Uh, not even close.
Uh, not even close.
Agree...
You’re going to have to explain how putting an advanced autopilot into a drone jet was responsible for multiple objects, in 2004 no less, being capable of descending from 80,000 feet to just above the surface of the ocean in eight tenths of a second, and stopping instantly. Or how these modern drone aircraft are responsible for countless dramatic events occurring in the 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s, etc., or even back thousands of years into ancient history. Or how they explain many many sightings by airline crews of massive objects at extreme altitudes that were far larger than their aircraft, and on, and on, and on….
And finally, if we have technology that can do even a fraction of what genuine UFOs have been documented doing we would have long ago taken absolute control of the planet, and would not be flying around in F-35s.
Look, if they tell us about these drones, who knows what we have in secret. I like to think we have some really spooky tech
I agree that we should not be global police and that we should avoid being drawn into globalist-driven wars, such as the parade of conflicts that began with the 1991 Gulf War. BUT, we also live in a time now when our economy depends upon our ships being able to travel the seas without interference, when aircraft can transit the globe in hours, and when complete annihilation can arrive from the other side of the planet in 30 minutes, or from a submarine off our coast in 5 minutes. Those evil people beyond the oceans that you seem to want to ignore, chief among them the CCP, would have been incapable of harming us in past centuries, but now they are every bit as dangerous as if they existed right next to us.
No, we should not be global police, but if we’re going to protect and defend our vital national interests (central to “America First”) we are going to have to project both power and influence across the planet. Doesn’t matter if you don’t like that; that’s reality in 2025.
I hope we do, too. But it’s an extreme stretch to try to dismiss all UFOs by just believing that it must be our tech. As I said, if we had anything even close to that advanced we most definitely would have used it to subdue every enemy and potential enemy before they could develop anything similar.
I look at it this way: we went to the moon in the 1960’s, almost 70 years later I hope to god we have some Star Trek-type crap. We’d better factoring the trillions that we spend in defense. Then of course there was the “warp drive” patent that the Dept of the U.S. Navy put out not long ago:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en
I’m with you there. While I am certain that much of the genuine portion of the UFO phenomenon (the small percentage of reports that are not explainable by misidentifications, atmospheric phenomena, etc.) is truly mysterious and not man-made, I also think there’s a good chance that some portion of that could well be ours. There has long been speculation that the “black triangles” that have been seen for the past few decades are related to a secret craft called the TR-3b. Who knows, but the thought of our military having something that can enter and exit hostile airspace at will is “heartwarming.”
yes, if anything, the thought that we might have some spooky warp drive tech keeps the Russians and Chinese worried
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