lol
China's fault for placing the South China Sea so close to China.
More like having an entire chinese fleet in the Gulf of Mexico and they were actively arming Cuba and Bolivia.
(The good version of this scenario)
"China is conducting fReEdOm Of NaViGaTiOn OpErAtIoNs in the Pacific Ocean."
Foley artists stop using the fucking Wilhelm scream in every fucking movie and tv show challenge level: Impossible
the gift that will never stop giving. hope we give away as many of these as we can to allies :pray-against:
Lmao didn't we recently pawn a bunch off on Finland or something?
It's a piece of shit plane. It's capitalism collapsing in on itself.
Instead of engineering a plane to fly good or shoot good, Lockheed Martin deliberately engineered a plane with parts that required specialized manufacturers in specific congressional districts. This helped them win the contract.
And it's a piece of shit. They also promised that there would be slightly different versions for different branches of the military, but that just made it a bigger piece of shit, because parts of it have to be modular or whatever.
"What do you mean developing a plane to be both an air superiority fighter and a close air support isn't a good idea? Specializ-what now? But think of how cool it'll look when your VTOL carrier plane gets retrofitted to drop paratroopers (Editor's Note: Retrofitting between roles takes 3-6 business weeks and requires a Lockheed Martin:tm: proprietary aircraft hangar, only available in Arizona.)!"
Instead of engineering a plane to fly good or shoot good, Lockheed Martin deliberately engineered a plane with parts that required specialized manufacturers in specific congressional districts.
1930s Germany: "We use eighteen different kinds of ball-bearings to build and maintain our tank battalions."
2020s America: "You are like a little baby. Watch this..."
Im pretty sure the Osprey crashes more but the f-35 has a bunch of other things that could make it crash or could kill the pilots that restrict its use. They can't fly in the rain because they aren't lightning proof and will attract lightning strikes to the fuel tanks, they had too much stuff in the cockpit to make them useful for flying at night, and flying upside down causes problems to a lot of their internals. The ejection seat also has a coin toss to kill the pilot by snapping their neck (I could not find a pilot being decapitated though I know that was the meme).
There is also more that makes it an even more expensive boondoggle but those aren't parts that are crashing the plane (yet, they probably would in combat).
Guilty as charged. When describing why the military should cancel the program to libs I would say it had a chance of decapitation instead of internal decapitation.
the Osprey
The Osprey is the most dangerous aircraft operated in the world right now. It's less likely to successfully land than this thing.
decapitation
It hasn't happened, not even in this case which included a pilot ejection. I think it was floated as a possibility based on how heavy the glorified VR headset/helmet is.
the latter. everyone here is propaganda understander until they see an article about an f35 that doesn't even specify the reason for the crash. if this were an f-18 or something there wouldn't have been an article in the first place.
i mean it's good at killing other planes but yeah obviously the money should have gone to healthcare or something
If it impacted the flight deck, that flight deck is decertified and can't be used outside of an emergency until it gets repaired and recertified. Good job F-35.
yep. this sounds like hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage, if not billions.
I have a sneaking suspicion they'll ignore the recommendation and just keep using a defective aircraft carrier until we get another Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
I was promised pilot beheadings from the F35. This is a good start, but it can do better
Trash ass plane. Its a miracle China was capable of creating the superior J-20 from the same plans.
:xi-lib-tears:
you take the plans away from a capitalist enviroment into a communist one and suddenly they turn into a good plane, how weird :stalin-feels-good:
what no profit motive to make the cheapest goods for the highest price does to a mf
