https://warisboring.com/the-f-35-is-a-terrible-fighter-bomber-and-attacker-and-unfit-for-aircraft-carriers-c6e36763574b
I believe the F-35 might be the greatest disarmament program ever started by the US. Horrific.
Quote from: Eighthman on March 31, 2017, 03:18:42 PM
https://warisboring.com/the-f-35-is-a-terrible-fighter-bomber-and-attacker-and-unfit-for-aircraft-carriers-c6e36763574b
I believe the F-35 might be the greatest disarmament program ever started by the US. Horrific.
Old news,same old line of bull poop; they whined and moaned about the F-18, and the F-16, and the F-15, blah, blah, blah...
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Seeker
Quote from: the seeker on March 31, 2017, 07:46:50 PM
Old news,same old line of bull poop; they whined and moaned about the F-18, and the F-16, and the F-15, blah, blah, blah...
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Seeker
From what I've read, this plane can't be flown without a computer and is basically a flying piece of garbage.
Based on my experiences with my new car, you can definitely have too much tech.
Quote from: Irene on March 31, 2017, 08:12:10 PM
From what I've read, this plane can't be flown without a computer and is basically a flying piece of garbage.
Based on my experiences with my new car, you can definitely have too much tech.
The majority of the military aircraft since the F-4 Phantom have been like that; anything 'fly-by-wire' is; it is true that it hasn't lived up to the hype, but at the same time the spin doctors don't really want it to...
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Seeker
Quote from: the seeker on March 31, 2017, 08:32:06 PM
The majority of the military aircraft since the F-4 Phantom have been like that; anything 'fly-by-wire' is; it is true that it hasn't lived up to the hype, but at the same time the spin doctors don't really want it to...
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Seeker
Roger that. :)
Well see the way it works....
We sell airplanes and weapons of mass destruction to Iraq and others
Then we accuse them of having weapons of mass destruction
Then we declare war on them and blow up the airplanes and weapons we sold them... (Reagan sold Saddam the gas he used on the Kurds)
Then we send in Halliburton to rebuild the country at a huge profit...
Then we sell them airplanes and weapons to rebuild their forces
See?
That is how things work :P
US Begins Delivering F-16s To Iraq This Week, A Decade After It Wiped Out Iraq's Air ForceQuoteIt seems like it was only yesterday when the US, under the guise of a fabricated WMD threat, was invading Iraq to liberate its oil deposits.
Fast forward to this week, when as Reuters reports, the US will deliver the first of 36 F-16 fighter jets to Iraq in what Baghdad's envoy to the United States called a "new chapter" in his country's ability to defend its vast borders with Iran and other neighbors. Which merely shows that since the US has "sanctioned" virtually every other potential customer of US weapons, it now has no choice but to invoice defense machinery deliveries (and boost factory orders and GDP) to former enemies. It also means that in several years, when Iraq reverts to a posture that is unfriendly to the US, and when the US shale boom is long gone and foreign sources of petroleum are once again all the rage, the US will have to fight its own fighter jets in the name of yet another war of democratic liberation and emancipation.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-04/us-begins-delivering-f-16s-iraq-week-decade-after-it-wiped-out-its-air-force
The New Iraqi Air Force: F-16IQ Block 52 FightersQuoteIraq's military has made significant strides in recent years, and the country is ordering more advanced military equipment to match. A slew of 2008 requests aimed to spend over $10 billion to buy advanced armored vehicles, strengthen its national military supply chain, build new bases and infrastructure for its army, and even buy advanced scout helicopters. Budget shortfalls have stretched out those buys, but that situation is easing external link, even as Iraq's air force continues to make progress.
Anxious to complete its transformation and stand fully on its own, Iraq is pushing to begin flying its own fighters within the next couple of years – and is looking to buy American F-16s, rather than the Soviet and French fighters that made up Saddam's air force.
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/iraq-seeks-f-16-fighters-05057/