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To: sukhoi-30mki
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, is a collective piece of crap.
It was oversold as a "one aircraft can do everything" before I retired out of the USAF in 2000, and it didn't do anything well.
It's too heavy, and too complex.
The F-22 beat it, with no effort at all.
Like all other government boondoggles, the F-35 was bound for failure from the day they decided to make one aircraft fit all the different needs of all the different branches of the military.
44 posted on 07/27/2013 2:22:27 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Yosemitest
The F-22 beat it, with no effort at all.

I heard someone around here claim that was the reason the FF-22 was canned: because it beat the totally awesome Fighter of the Future!™ and the politicos didn't like that.

51 posted on 09/22/2013 11:17:11 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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