Basement Dweller Butthurt.

XanderCrews · by **XanderCrews** » 13 Jun 2019, 03:47

sferrin wrote:
krieger22 wrote:The Canadian-Swedish Joint Cope Project

Ye Gods. Who's this, "Erik Elmgren" imbecile?

How many fighter producers does Sweden have again? Wouldn't want a monopoly...

energo · by **energo** » 13 Jun 2019, 08:24

sferrin wrote: In other words, they disappeared from the public eye for 24 hours.
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Rouge cloud?

white_lightning35 · by **white_lightning35** » 14 Jun 2019, 01:54

https://futurism.com/the-byte/us-milita ... -unflyable
Posted 1 day ago

https://www.thedailybeast.com/america-i ... cant-fight
Posted 2 hours ago

Is no one else amazed the Lockheed has managed to drop the price of each f-35 by 600 billion dollars in one day? That's incredible! Thanks for reporting on this, trustworthy and accurate news media!

SpudmanWP · by **SpudmanWP** » 11 Jul 2019, 21:16

Yahoo news is quickly approaching NI's level of ClickBait. It does not help that they keep republishing NI's articles, even the ones that say that they are over a year old. :doh:

https://news.yahoo.com/f-35-trouble-dis ... 00940.html

spazsinbad · by **spazsinbad** » 11 Jul 2019, 21:37

BUTT ITS NEWS! Yahoo must define news as in RIP VAN WINKLE news definition or perhaps ZOMBIE NEWS - it RISE UP! :devil:

SpudmanWP · by **SpudmanWP** » 31 Jul 2019, 04:12

This problem extends to new and old platforms alike. The air readiness of the Air Force’s version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), a platform already hampered by massive cost overruns and delays, dropped by five percent in FY 2018 compared to FY 2017. Less than 50 percent of the service’s 148 JSFs achieved a mission-capable rating in FY 2018.

https://www.cagw.org/thewastewatcher/ai ... -continues

In the article, they only cite FY2017 and FY2018 numbers. Gee, I wonder why?

spazsinbad · by **spazsinbad** » 31 Jul 2019, 04:25

Interesting AFtimes article from which buttyHurty came: https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your ... o-improve/

sferrin · by **sferrin** » 10 Sep 2019, 13:30

"(EDITOR’S NOTE: Contrary to what is stated above, there is nothing ‘curious’ about the fact that the F-35 was designed without chaff or IR flare launchers.

Since its stealthy design was claimed to make the F-35 invisible to radar, there was clearly no need for active countermeasures like chaff to protect it from radar. This same reasoning explains why no other US Air Force ‘stealth’ aircraft, from the F-117 to the F-22 and B-2, are not fitted with any.

By the same logic, the fact that chaff is now planned to be retrofitted to the F-35A merely confirms that, a quarter-century since it was designed, ‘stealth’ is no longer a sufficient guarantee of the F-35A’s survival in combat – if it ever was.

And this clearly poses a major problem, since ‘stealth’ is the promise that justified the aircraft’s many design limitations in terms of speed, range and weapon payload.

If ‘stealth’ is no longer the combat asset its manufacturer has long claimed to justify these limitations, the F-35A becomes just another aircraft with mediocre performance – but with a high sticker price and huge operating costs.) "

Because the F-35 is getting chaff dispensers. :roll:

(Like the F-22 has had since day one. )

https://www.defense-aerospace.com/artic ... nough.html

ricnunes · by **ricnunes** » 10 Sep 2019, 15:05

Jesus Christ!! That guy above (the "editor" of the article above) is a walking brain fart!! :doh:

quicksilver · by **quicksilver** » 10 Sep 2019, 15:50

The F-35 (all variants) have always had expendable RF/IR countermeasures (chaff and flares). The recent announcement was about the planned addition of advanced versions thereof; ‘upgrades’ if you will, as part of c2d2.

From 2006...

https://www.aviationtoday.com/2006/04/0 ... rotection/

ricnunes · by **ricnunes** » 10 Sep 2019, 15:55

So "brain fart" squared.
No, make it better: "brain fart" cubed! :roll:

spazsinbad · by **spazsinbad** » 10 Sep 2019, 16:53

ricnunes wrote:So "brain fart" squared.
No, make it better: "brain fart" cubed!

That clown Giovanni de Briganti at DEFaero is a real fake "NEWSmaker".

garrya · by **garrya** » 10 Sep 2019, 17:50

ricnunes wrote:Jesus Christ!! That guy above (the "editor" of the article above) is a walking brain fart!!

Not a big surprise

ricnunes · by **ricnunes** » 10 Sep 2019, 20:41

Ok, it's explained - Giovanni de Briganti!

So and actually that's a "brain fart" elevated by a factor of four (4) or more :roll:

hythelday · by **hythelday** » 11 Sep 2019, 21:34

What are the chances that the new chaff is not actually "chaff"but something more akin to "Gremlin" drones?

I mean those are not terribly large.