Ladies and gentleman, this window licking idiot is what’s wrong with the F-35 program. They are keeping the populace in the loop and as a result we comments like this.

“The answer to thess is yes.”

Much is..... but not all by any stretch.

You’re not far off target! At the height of the cold war, they had a political party (I can’t judge its significance through the fogs of time) vying for country leadership, whose only half joking idea for the whole defense budget was to replace its armed forces with border signs that said, in Russian, “we give up”.

The numbers you are using are not in any way based on reality or flyaway cost.

Everything you wrote was wrong.

Renewed Russian hostility.

Particular parts built for the U.S. articles come off the assembly line fully finished, while those destined for foreign FACOs are shipped out in their primer coat.

I call them teething problems with the hindsight that just about every major military program has significant issues early in its career.

No airframe issues, yes it has fired its gun, the avionics are what the 2012 re baseline said they would be, it has already fired our two most advanced A2A missiles, oxygen you’re thinking of the F-22, no it has the exact weapons planed for this date, the ACM abilities are better than an F-16 all day long and it…

Its a superior strike aircraft right now, but it isn’t exactly the best fighter, AFAIK...

The Danes have only 30 operable F-16s at this point... so it is practically like for like.

In terms of weapons though, I’m not sure the US will hold the edge.

Good question.

That will be another opportunity for criticism of the jet’s continuously rising cost

FA commentators would have simply recommended replacing every plane the Danes have with an A10 and calling it day.

I read a lot of blogs and stuff so I know things!

This is clearly the wrong decision. The F-35 scores extremely poorly in the relevant “Internet armchair generals who read that one article once and likes the jet with the big gun that goes BRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPTTTT” category. Its just science!

Yes, it is under par relative to previous gen planes.

There is money involved

They spent several years and around €20m coming to this decision.