This thing is FUBAR. Do some research into the billions poured into making this aircraft over a span of 26+ years. Its a poor replacement for the A-6, A-10, F-14, F-15, F-16, F/A-18 and AV-8B (I dont think they ever got the VTOL Version of JSF to work). All we have to do to KNOW we are being sold a POS is to read the article. Look! It can land on a AIRCRAFT CARRIER! Wow… It’s such a special aircraft, lets give it a Navy Achievement Medal. Weve had jets doing that for years. What’s “impressive” is a South Vietnamese Major landing an overloaded Cessna on the Midway with no tailhook. So understand this nav-vet is not impressed that it can land on a carrier. Lets have go toe to toe with a F-14, F-15, F-16, F/A-18, F-22, Su-27, Mig-29, Mig-35, Su-37 Berkut, Eurofighter Typhoon, Saab Grippen, or ANY of the old refurbished Isreali airframes... If it can pwn all of those fighters (without the help of the slaved B-2 Lancer Missile Platform) then I’ll be impressed. I would ask that it out-perform the A-6, A-10, F-15 and F/A18 in a ground support role, but it can’t. It is incapable of carrying the same loads the aforementioned attack aircraft can. Nor does it have a GAU-8 30mm cannon. And it can’t replace the AV-8B. The VTOL version failed. They had to settle for STOVL version instead. Not much good without a runway, something the USMC wanted to avoid using but is now forced to. We should have bought the Yak 141 from the Russians. Capable of vertical flight to 15000 ft… And don’t get me started on stealth. The Serbs proved that if you lob enough lead in the air, stealth doesn’t work. As in the F-117 shot down over Serbia… The F-22 Program came in at 62 million from start to finish. The F-35… 1.0165 trillion. Sometimes, you have to say enough is enough and stop pouring money into making something work. Sadly the DoD was to embarrassed to do that with this plane.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 07:44:12 +0000
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