Yeah, it kills me how a bunch of Freepers hit the threads complaining about media bias then come here believing every line of crap from the ongoing smear campaign against every new weapon system since Vietnam (which is so predictable you can set your watch to it). The B-2 can’t function in the rain, the F-15 is an overpriced dog, the F-16 “electric jet’s” complex electronics are unmaintainable in a wartime footing (even though it’s been perpetually deployed for the last 25 years), the AV-8 Harrier is “The Widowmaker”, the AWACS is a piece of junk that won’t work and will be the first to die in any war, the CVN aircraft carrier was proven by World War II to be obsolete, need I go on? Then people who have actually WORKED in the aerospace industry for 20+ years try to dispel a few myths and get attacked, get called government stooges, and are accused to being in love with a piece of techno-garbage. Not too impressive, FR, I expected more from you people.
And like you, I’m not going to get into the sensors on the F-35. Just suffice to say: there are serious people in the industry that want to UPGRADE the E-8 JSTARS to sensors that the F-22 and F-35 have.
I searched a while to find that one page to counter the dozens that was similar to the one she posted...that’s how prevalent the bias is out there.
Plus, it’s a “gray” program...some you get to hear about, some you don’t...and the media makes damn sure you hear about anything negative.
Should have seen the U-2 thread from a couple of years back...more ignorance and stupidity on that thread alone to fill the Great Lakes...
This is why I rarely, if ever engage on aviation threads any more. People don’t want to learn, they want to quibble, they want to denigrate...they’re not interested in learning the facts.