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To: Edward.Fish

So the F-35 has to do its mission and every other platform’s mission for you to be satisfied? Did you spend the last 30 years bashing on the F-16, as well?


49 posted on 08/02/2016 12:13:42 PM PDT by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: USNBandit
So the F-35 has to do its mission and every other platform’s mission for you to be satisfied?

That's what we're being sold, so yes.
I wouldn't be quite as hard on it if they were honest, but everything about it seems wrongheaded -- from the claims that it can do CAS well enough to replace the A-10, that it can do just as good at air-superiority as the F-22, to the shenanigans about its readiness for combat (it was just last month that they actually fired the gun; from a stand and not airborne though), the language for the SW was also a bad choice (C++ is not very good for ensuring low-defect code).

Did you spend the last 30 years bashing on the F-16, as well?

While versatile, the F-16 wasn't ever billed as it can do everything, and better than anything like the F-35 is.

50 posted on 08/02/2016 12:56:01 PM PDT by Edward.Fish
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