Posted on 01/29/2022 3:24:05 PM PST by nickcarraway
“We’re certainly mindful of the value of an F-35 in every respect of what value means,” John Kirby, Pentagon spokesman said yesterday.
Go kill yourself. The country demands it.
Ping
Crashed by the first female F-35 pilot.
Has that been confirmed?
Could be Evergreen BS. ‘People’ kept on pimping that it was piloted by a woman as well.
Quickest way to destroy China might be to let them have the F-35 - and bankrupt themselves copying it the way we did producing it. /s
Man, woman or whatever, I am sure they /them that they feel bad.
at least they were more talented than that Mccain guy
Of course not.
The US is now a crumbling hot mess.
Try about five hundred times more than that.
Ahem. Why would the Navy feel the need to notify the world about that crash. Let me guess, they gave out the longitude and latitude.
“...it could take a US salvage ship more than 10 days to reach the site of the crash, potentially giving Chinese submarines the opportunity to find it first.”
Too bad the Glomar Explorer was sold to a chinese scrapyard.
China could recover the plane and copy the computers—but they’d need chips. Where (oh where) would they get enough computer chips?
Wonder if Howard Hughes’ Glomar Explorer is still available. For those who remember the Nixon years.
Given to China as scrap in 2015 according to various reports.
I know it’s become fashionable to bash the F-35, but from everything I’ve seen, including war gaming simulations against Russia’s S-400 system, the F-35 is everything it was promised to be and then some. The critics think one-dimensionally, comparing things like the F-35’s maneuverability against likely Russian or Chinese adversaries, but the strength of the F-35 is multi-dimensional, and in today’s beyond visual range environment fighter aircraft are highly unlikely to end up in “turn and burn” dogfights.
The simulations I saw against S-400 batteries were stunning. The stealth of the F-35, its deployment in large numbers, and the incorporation of the new AARGM-ER anti-radiation missile mean that even the most capable SAM systems will be unaware of waves of F-35s approaching until shortly before already-launched waves of AARGM-ERs are approaching at hypersonic speed. At that point, the SAM crews have to decide between being destroyed before they can obtain a firing solution, or turning off their radars and being blind sitting ducks. Integrated into an attack wave like this would be 4th generation Super Hornets, behind the F-35s, to mop up once the S-400s either go dark to preserve themselves or the F-35s have already dealt them a devastating initial blow.
These scenarios also included defending SU-35 fighters and a second layer of shorter range mobile anti-aircraft defenses, and none of it mattered. The American attack blew through all of it, and did it with ZERO losses. The same could not be said, though, for a companion scenario which only used 4th generation aircraft and did not include the F-35. In that case, the Americans still prevailed, but only destroyed or damaged some of the adversary units, while suffering significant friendly losses in the process.
The key to success was a combination of the F-35s stealth, it’s highly-advanced sensors, and its ability to feed information back to friendly units via network, while also deploying advanced anti-radiation missiles. It’s stealthiness allowed the F-35 to deploy those missiles so close to the enemy that they had no time to react.
As for cost, now that the F-35 is in large-scale production, per-unit costs have fallen dramatically, and are in the tens of millions (I believe it’s now around 80 million per copy, but I don’t recall the exact number).
I’d read elsewhere that the pilot was suffering from chest pains just prior to ejection. Also unconfirmed.
covid stab ?
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