Just found this: In the midst of a so-called budget emergency, the Government has committed $24 billion to the troubled Joint Strike Fighters aircraft. Wheres the money? Is it airworthy, and what kind of security are we buying? Abbott order over 100 F-35 from USA, each cost tax payer 1.2 billion. Regardless recent USA politically polish it value and positive progress. etc., but truth is truth, the whole F-35 design is a flaw, far from combat ready, its do-it-all design has ended up to can not do a thing. Five years ago (repeat it was 5 years ago, in past five years, China has dramatically increased their war ships and Jet fight technologies and fight power), in Stillion and Perdue’s August 2008 war simulation, a massive Chinese air and naval force bore down on Beijing’s longtime rival Taiwan amid rising tensions in the western Pacific. A sudden Chinese missile barrage wiped out the tiny, outdated Taiwanese air force, leaving American jet fighters based in Japan and Guam to do battle with Beijing’s own planes and, hopefully, forestall a bloody invasion. In the scenario, 72 Chinese jets patrolled the Taiwan Strait. Just 26 American warplanes—the survivors of a second missile barrage targeting their airfields—were able to intercept them, including 10 twin-engine F-22 stealth fighters that quickly fired off all their missiles. That left 16 of the smaller, single-engine F-35s to do battle with the Chinese. As they began exchanging fire with the enemy jets within the mathematical models of the mock conflict, the results were shocking. America’s newest stealth warplane and the planned mainstay of the future Air Force and the air arms of the Navy and Marine Corps, was no match for Chinese warplanes. Despite their vaunted ability to evade detection by radar, the JSFs were blown out of the sky. “The F-35 is double-inferior,” Stillion and Perdue moaned in their written summary of the war game, later leaked to the press. The analysts railed against the new plane,.... Details: https://medium/war-is-boring/fd-how-the-u-s-and-its-allies-got-stuck-with-the-worlds-worst-new-warplane-5c95d45f86a5 Congratulations, our government once again to sacrifice Australian peoples interests to give Americans a huge economic boost.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 17:03:28 +0000
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