Thei thread should be verrrry interesting...😏
You know, we cut the Raptor because we were going to be coming
up with this new program, at least in part.
Now we’re going to slow walk this baby.
Next they’ll tell us they will cut some orders to go with the
new 6th generation or some such.
That’s how it seems to work.
When China and or Russia decide they’ve got high waders
that they are comfortable enough with, I sure hope we’ve
somehow patched together the forces to hold them off with.
The number cut is just about the number that Germany said they were going to be buying...
Lockheed deserves to die and should have a long time ago. The company of Kelly Johnson is long gone. Lockheed is nothing but a political animal that has forgotten how to manage construction of airplanes. They are oily to boot.
Take the drawing and give them to someone who deserves the opportunity and can perform.
Never mind that the 35 is a shill of an airplane.
Ping.
The F35.
A chimera built by committee. Elephant snout. Zebra torso. Crocodile legs. Crow wings. Octopus tail.
The F-15 is like the B52, a platform just about at the apex of development, good for decades. It is a big monster of a fighter but it can do about anything.
Why? Pelosi explains government spending is good.
It’s junk, anyway.
So we’re back to the Obama policy of throwing money at every boondoggle under the sun while at the same time slashing military procurement which is actually needed.
This is one of the reasons that, unlike some others here, I’m not too hot on getting into WW3 under DEMOCRATS.
Just when we COULD get Putin’s attention by DOUBLING our F-35 production, we cut it nearly in half.
No different than Germany building pipeline after pipeline to Russia, shutting down its nukes (which will be finalized this year), and shutting down its coal plants (which they are rethinking, at least) - and then bitching when Russia doesn’t listen to them.
Do we REALLY want to get into WW3 under the command of THIS administration?
Manned aerial combat vehicles will always have a poorer weight to thrust ratio and more limited maneuverability compared with unmanned aerial combat vehicles.
So I read every reply, and not one mentions that the reason for the reduced buy is the Block 4 upgrade is late, and the DoD doesn’t want the expense of upgrading that many planes later.
This doesn’t affect the eventual total count.
The F-35, by the way, is second to none in many aspects.