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What is up with the F-35? Part II
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Originally posted by JRT View PostI suspect that flight maneuver will soon be in the software if it is not already there.
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it is hard to overestimate how stupid US collective decision making could be ))))
1) S400 was never a reasonable problem for f35 ownership by Turkey.... if so then no country which is close to Russian borders shall be allowed to own it )))
2) it was Israeli lobby who opposed that Turkey obtains Patriot initially and hoped to block S400 using F35 and US pressure as a tool
3) US diplomatic skills degraded to such an extent that this issue was discussed by public media instead of direct tet-a-tet negotiations....
4) with naked and public pressure US put this situation to a complete mess, when dropping S400 was insult of Turks as a nation...
5) now some people prefer to insist on being stupid instead of accepting that better to cool off and see a bigger and longer picture...
result, Israel has got Turkey with S400 anyway. F35 has lost sizable client + has to retool production, US defense industry lost even more reputation (Indians will think twice now about US offers), NATO may loose access to vital air/navy bases + loyalty of largest of its armies...
And Russia smiles - few billion dollars, and less concerns over NATO southern flank.... maybe even more billion dollars for its Flankers )))
And imagine, just some time back Russia and Turkey relationships were terrible (the lightest term for it) after Turkey shot down Russian bomber in Syria..... incredible ability to turn losses into victories....
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Pentagon delays F-35 full-rate production decision by 13 months
I'm confused... so what are all the F-35s allready flying around, including outsite of the US? Prototypes? Preseries?!
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Originally posted by jlvfr View PostPentagon delays F-35 full-rate production decision by 13 months
I'm confused... so what are all the F-35s allready flying around, including outsite of the US? Prototypes? Preseries?!“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
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Japan’s additional Lightnings have been approved.
https://news.usni.org/2020/07/10/sta...5-fighter-deal
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Originally posted by surfgun View PostJapan’s additional Lightnings have been approved.
https://news.usni.org/2020/07/10/sta...5-fighter-deal
The LCS program on the other hand...“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
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Originally posted by TopHatter View PostWell...as costly as this program has been, it's difficult to continue painting it as an abject failure when orders like that are being placed.
Originally posted by TopHatter View PostThe LCS program on the other hand...
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Originally posted by TopHatter View PostWell...as costly as this program has been, it's difficult to continue painting it as an abject failure when orders like that are being placed.
The LCS program on the other hand...
The LCS is a shitty idea poorly executed.“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
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F-35s, U-2s, and Army missiles including the PAC-3 interceptor and HIMARS.
https://www.defenseone.com/technolog...ssiles/167411/
Key paragraph:
The demonstration extends the range of the F-35 as a flying sensor, improves the effectiveness of the IBCS, and makes the decades-old U-2 more relevant to modern warfare. The U.S. military is at the beginning of a multi-year effort to interlink all its jets, drones, missiles, ships, and troops across air, land, sea, and space and across services, a vision referred to as Joint-Domain Command and Control.Last edited by looking4NSFS; 04 Aug 20,, 13:58.
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The SoKo’s are getting in on the ‘B’ game.
https://news.usni.org/2020/08/11/sou...ier#more-79142
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