[UNGN]

The Purpose of the EX is to get foreign export dollars.

We are just buying some to replace old F-15C’s that break in half, so we don’t waste F22 hours intercepting Bear Bombers.

[Zhang Fei]

[We are just buying some to replace old F-15C’s that break in half]

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Is this a description of cracks discovered by mechanics on the ground or of actual events in mid-air?

[Check6]

The F-35 is a nightmare. The F-15 is proven. A bird or a BB brings down an F-35. F-15 a little more robust in the aerodynamic/electro-mechanical dimension, not to mention 2 engines, enough to bring it home after one is gone. F-15 even landed with one wing gone. F-35 just went “a bridge too far” down the McNamara road of hoping to get one weapon do to the job of several others. I think the F-111 ended up being called the Ardvark. I wonder what name the F-35 will end up with? The Matrix? Just too much overly optimistic engineering crammed into a flying machine. Well, that is my impression.

[Secret Agent Man]

The f35 is able to be sold to foreign countries. At least the a version.