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Eh, I give up. I disagree with you wholly and completely. Tired of seeing people on the internet defend obvious propaganda

Why do you want to grow?

I think the US is past being "fair" with China, and I believe this is a very good thing. The Chinese are cheating in every arena with everything they've got, and being fair only pl…

Seems rather binary.

Why do you think it so automatically likely that China wins?

YC going into China just proves that they have no ethics and morals

At my company, I don't have a staff of engineers to productionalize things so I have to do it myself.

Can you please explain? Because I've reviewed those rules and I don't understand where I fell on the wrong side of them. Should I not call Chinese propagandists as I see them?

It's fun to read HN and spot Chinese government involvement.

Exactly correct. The history of the United States is marred with some horrible events. But that does not change the fact that there is a large faction within the Chinese government…

I've been lurking here for 10 years. For most of that time I was employed as an electrical engineer. Why should people who are interested in high quality technical discussion surpr…

I heard this gem a couple of weeks ago: "Don't engineer things to failure." When you find yourself saying "I ought to be able to generalize this", that's when you need to stop and …

Yeah, the F-35 is delayed. Originally, Initial Operational Capability declarations for the services was supposed to be in 2010. Now it's 2018 and while the USAF and USMC declared I…

This sounds like an article of faith. Do you really want to have faith in a place that is likely ephemeral? People once had this same degree of faith in the technology corridor of …

True, but that's only for the F-35A. The other two variants are more expensive per copy due to their lower production numbers.

Just FYSA, PAK-FA program was cancelled a few months ago.

To correct and expand upon your point a bit. Yes, the Super Hornet isn't just a limited upgrade. The Super Hornet is a bigger airframe. You can think of it as "what would happen if…

So why do you think this was covered up?

There are actually quite a few reasons.

Yup, shape is the biggest thing you can control, then radar absorbing and reflecting materials. One of the big anecdotes from the early days of stealth aircraft development in the …

I've been replying to you, not attacking some strawman editorial, as you put it. David Axe, the guy you linked to, has a long history of misunderstanding the F-35, like also, this …

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/read-for-yourself-the-f-35-... You linked to this yourself.

They don't know, either. They are speculating. You can't truly know unless you're on the inside, and then, you can't talk.

> The F-22 is innately stealthier You cannot know this unless you are read in to both programs, so this is further speculation. And if you were read into both programs (or either o…

We cannot make an F-22 right now. A few years ago, Lockheed Martin was asked how much they thought it would cost to restart F-22 production. The cost was several billion dollars. P…