Don’t forget all the additional safety crap.

The F-35 was designed (two DECADES ago) to be the “low” in a “low/high” mix, ala F-15/16. Lower cost. Lower tech.

No emissions in FL.

No emissions in FL.

Oops

No one is spending most of a billion dollars to resurrect a three decade old design.

What?

Don’t click the link, kids.

What kind of watch list did I just make it on for clicking through to that goddamn site?

Gotta be honest, I haven’t really gotten into as much non fiction dealing with the Cold War as I should have.

Soviet Air Defense equipment “acquired” by the U.S. intel services

So did bats really fly into them, or not?

Or even the whole, sometimes real ugly, history of the F-111.

More effective than this:

Right.

Yeah, congrats on winning an air battle 75 years ago.

I’m a bit older, and spent my youth studying Nam.

What? Fucking nonsense.

Those guys with shitty training and discipline are the reason the Chunnel currently has democracies on both ends of it.

30mm depleted uranium rounds fired by A-10 Warthogs: 782,514