This entire comment section is moronic amateur hour. Good job.

No they can’t. This isn’t the Cold War. Not only are their aircraft shy of parity, but they’re completely outnumbered. That old thought process that they can put ten aircraft in the air for every one we can is 110% erroneous.

Exactly. As I understand it they can’t restart production without going through massive amounts of basically designing it all over again. They intentionally destroyed the capability simply so there was no possible way certain technologies could be compromised shy of losing an actual airframe.

I would bet they do, at least on some level. Even if it’s just sharing a half chuckle or rolling of the eyes. My last gig before I left uniform was serving on a well-known, theatre-level commander’s PSD team (security). We’d share a laugh over our particular boss’s foibles when smoking and joking with our foreign…

Yeah I think it’s pretty over the top. I’m in Belgrade atm and the only news I can catch on Sky, BBC, and Eurovision is about the combined security situation in the U.S. because of the Pope and Xi.

Quit being an idiot.

The Ford is fine. IOC doesn’t happen for another year and flight ops aren’t scheduled to commence for an additional year after that.

Where the fuck did you even come from? I’ve seen you trolling around like a moron for awhile now. Go away mouth-breather, everything you post is painfully stupid.

Are you really that stupid?

Every landing is graded, regardless of conditions. I agree with your overall point though.

I remember that sandstorm. I’ve got some pretty amazing pictures around here somewhere of it. While I knew it shut down airpower, I had no idea that it was doing so from actual carriers and airfields. I figured it was just the battlespace. Cheers on neat post.

Hahah thanks. If there is a badass scale im easily a one on a scale of ten though. Years later, I’m not so sure being a one is worth it when you’re still years away from being 40 but when you get up in the morning everything creaks and hurts. Thanks for the compliment :)

What? I spend a decade in uniform, most of it with an elite unit I was never paid anything near “a premium”. Rofl you have no clue what you’re talking about.

Cheers. Growing up i was a little bit chubby and always self-conscious about it, so I worked my ass off. By the time I graduated high-school I had set half of the schools weight-lifting numbers along with being a pretty solid runner and was 10% body fat.

Tyler, can you pull “Ancient Subhunter” out of the grey’s if you haven’t already. People should see his posts.

Yes they can. It’s only the lift fan+F135 that can’t be carried. It only affects the STOVL/VTOL variant. One C-2 can’t carry the lift fan+F135 either.

I’m pretty sure he’s Russian with a limited grasp of English. That being said he seems like a good guy. I’ve tried to talk to him a few times.

Hey buddy, glad to see you posting.

Who gives a shit who sold it to them? Dozens of other countries are capable of storing these weapons without using them. If Ferrari sells a 600whp car to a 16 year old that buries it in a fence ten minutes later is it Ferrari’s fault? Funny how much worse everything sounds when you’re a flaming ingrate.

The point is, you have no firsthand knowledge of anything. You know nothing about the country and the people except what you read in the paper. I lived there. I’ll go with what I know instead of what you think you know. I was there when insurgent forces were using Saddam’s chlorine artillery as IEDs. That doesn’t…