How the U.S. and Its Allies Got Stuck with the World’s Worst New Warplane
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#2Having worked on the F16 at one point in my career it kicks the F35 is the ass every day and twice on Sunday. Plus you can buy 20 of them for every F35. It's all about money though, the F16 is too cheap to keep Lockheed in business no matter how much you upgrade it.
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#3I understand the point the article is trying to make, but its not realistic. Having worked with the Navy for a few years I know that the biggest use of airplanes is not air to air combat ( which is what this article is complaining about ) It is air to land bombing. So why are we complaining about making an air force that serves our needs rather then one that might be useful for some other task.
As a note he says this will be the "new mainstay of the air force" however we still have the F-22 as our air superiority fighter which is still believed to be better then anything out there, and indeed in their simulation the only limitation to the F-22 was there were too few of them. So this isn't really about America losing air superiority its about a few analysts not taking into account the entire mission of the three branches of the military. Maybe this plane doesn't stack up well against the F-16 or F-22, but It sure beats the Harrier and the F-18.
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#4...currently an estimated $1 trillion to design, build and operate 2,400 copies...
Am I the only one shocked that a country spend this much to make a weapon? Is there any decency left?
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#5Why are we still building manned fighter planes?
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#6Having worked on the F16 at one point in my career it kicks the F35 is the ass every day and twice on Sunday. Plus you can buy 20 of them for every F35. It's all about money though, the F16 is too cheap to keep Lockheed in business no matter how much you upgrade it.
I don't think this is to replace the F16. The F22 replaces them. How do you think the F35 compares to the F18 ?
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#7America’s newest stealth warplane and the planned mainstay of the future Air Force and the air arms of the Navy and Marine Corps, was no match for Chinese warplanes
I'm sure that's in lots of papers in China today.
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#8...currently an estimated $1 trillion to design, build and operate 2,400 copies... Am I the only one shocked that a country spend this much to make a weapon? Is there any decency left?
Over the 50 year projected life cycle of the F-35.
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#9$1 trillion; this is why the US has no health care. Does anyone realistically believe you will go to war with China or Russia anymore?
It's time to stop the charade of war, and help your own citizens instead.
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#10Ultimately, this article has one point but makes it about ten times. The point is that the F-35 led to the U.S. losing the 2008 war game. All of the quotes (particularly from Australian military officials) are about the failed 2008 war game.
It might seem like a valid point except that the war game deliberately crippled all the F-22s (the U.S. air superiority fighters) and instead pitched the F-35s (the U.S. jack-of-all trades jets) against Chinese air superiority fighters. It shouldn't be a surprise that a computer doesn't like that fight but it's a contrived and fairly silly situation since it's not really the F-35s job.