I always thought that was an inelegant solution to a design requirement that shouldn't be there. The Chinese equivalent doesn't have it or even room for it. Just take off from a strip, what even is the scenario that requires a VTOL and also a fighter?
As a kid hanging out in chat rooms in the early 2000s, I spent ages trying to figure out what lol means. I even used it when it seemed appropriate, not knowing, not willing to ask.
That's part of the reason it sucks. They decided that instead of building different planes that were good at different roles they'd make one ludicrously expensive plane that was bad at everything.
Hilarious but how tf was it moving like that in the air? It's not a VTOL afaik.
The marine version is. There's a big fan right in the middle.
lmao so they wasted even more money turning this shitty plane into a shitty VTOL plane that can't even land.
They needed a a regular, carrier, and a vtol version, all of which have the same airframe and non-flight capabilities (ecm, tracking, stealth).
It's expensive to make 3 planes with such strong non-flying capability.
I always thought that was an inelegant solution to a design requirement that shouldn't be there. The Chinese equivalent doesn't have it or even room for it. Just take off from a strip, what even is the scenario that requires a VTOL and also a fighter?
The scenario is that the Marines haven't been disbanded for some complicated reason that can't really be explained.
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I feel like a complete idiot, because I just realized what "afaik" means when I read this comment.
i had the same thing happen with "iirc" some years back. major revelation
I still don't know :blob-no-thoughts:
As far as I know
As a kid hanging out in chat rooms in the early 2000s, I spent ages trying to figure out what lol means. I even used it when it seemed appropriate, not knowing, not willing to ask.
You're one of today's lucky 10,000! Now you'll also get my other faves, AFAICT and AFAIAA
That's part of the reason it sucks. They decided that instead of building different planes that were good at different roles they'd make one ludicrously expensive plane that was bad at everything.
So they threw aside part of what worked about American air strategy before the airforce was created? The niche planes and willingness to specialize.