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F-35 Declared Operational
About time!
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/f-35-fi...-ready-combat/THE FIRST SQUADRON of F-35B Lightning II fighter jets have been declared operational, Reuters reports ahead of an expected official announcement later today.
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About time.....I wanna see a squadron do CAS, OCA, and DCA all at once.....hehe
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They need to paint a great big, wrinkly, old looking pig on the sides/nose/tail; as long as it took, as much as it costs, and as overweight as it became, an old piggy bank would be appropriate.
Great! ...a solid step backward in US air superiority is now official! The Vietnam lesson might come back to bite them in the ass again.Originally Posted by jhood001
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Just for the Marines. The AF will have to wait another four years. I am sure that will be enough time to kill the A10.
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The F-35 isn't meant to be a fighter. It's an attack plane, supposed to replace the F/A-18, AV-8B and theoretically the A-10. The F-22 is the Air Superiority bird.
Besides, the F-35 has a gun. It just doesn't have the software to use it!
The jack of all trades and master of none really applies to this thing. It is a multi-role strike fighter that doesn't do too much as well as the various aircraft it replaces; the most ridiculous being the replacement for the A-10. It really is ridiculous that the armed services plan to consolidate their operations on this aircraft platform.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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Having some first hand experience with some of the tech inside the F-35, I definitely wouldn't say that it's the master of none. Sure, it isn't designed for strafing tanks, but flight and engagement software is leaps and bounds ahead of anything else out there. I think anyone that calls it a replacement for the Warthog is fooling themselves, but that doesn't mean that it isn't an incredibly capable aircraft.
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Capable of what, militarily speaking? Not a great fighter, not a great ground attack aircraft, not a good close air support aircraft...but it's stealthy!
The F-22 is a capable aircraft, but there are only around 200 of them and they're also extremely expensive.
Way too expensive. I'd rather see more aircraft with more capability for that money.
ETA: clarification
Last edited by Gman; 08-01-2015 at 11:35.
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