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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...
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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!
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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!
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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.
https://news.yahoo.com/f-35-trouble-dis ... 00940.html
https://news.yahoo.com/f-35-trouble-dis ... 00940.html
"The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese."
BUTT ITS NEWS! Yahoo must define news as in RIP VAN WINKLE news definition or perhaps ZOMBIE NEWS - it RISE UP!
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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?
"The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese."
Interesting AFtimes article from which buttyHurty came: https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your ... o-improve/
"(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. (Like the F-22 has had since day one. )
https://www.defense-aerospace.com/artic ... nough.html
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. (Like the F-22 has had since day one. )
https://www.defense-aerospace.com/artic ... nough.html
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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/
From 2006...
https://www.aviationtoday.com/2006/04/0 ... rotection/
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".
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