No... according to half those who like to pretend they are defence “journalists”, the unit cost is over $1trn.
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An article nominally about the B21 that spends most of it’s time editorialising about the F35?
- Establish the requirements for the programme.
Step 1: F-35 is terrible!
Hi Kelsey, nice to meet you.
F-35 flogging was Tyler’s bag, can we shake things up and try something new?
Yup, Ike was right about the ‘Military-Industrial Complex’ in like, 1950. . .
These are not, by most measures, good airplanes. The ejection seat poses a danger to lighter pilots. It can’t run on fuel that’s too warm. In early tests, an F-35 itself caught fire. Sometimes the plane’s computers crash and need to be rebooted mid-air. It is a flawed aircraft
Going to ignore the content of the article due to poor quality and instead address the title
On the strength of this one editorial? Good. One thing I ask, and this is important, is for FTA going forward to please draw a stronger demarcation between reporting and editorial. The two have been mixed in equal measure in the style it’s been using so far. I would really like to see objective pieces with as little…
Another F-35 hatchet job? He'll fit right in here.
New writer, even worse F-35 bias.
These are not, by most measures, good airplanes.
A Foxtrot Alpha haiku:
F-35 will not carry AIM-9, ASRAAM or IRIS-T operationally. One, because AIM-9 is rail launched and physically can’t be fired from the bay. Two, the other two IR missiles will never be carried internally because that means trading a MRM for a SRM. That makes zero sense given the aircraft’s capabilities and tactics.
F-35 will be able to carry 4xAMRAAM + 2XSIDEWINDER with a later software. The aircraft that other countries are getting are functionally identical. (Unless they want different capability, like the brit's rolling landing and the Israeli's modifications)
It’s that the pistol is held sideways that increases the badassery!
“You choose to simply laugh at the section on passive stealth, which is pulled from various authorities with applicable knowledge. It shows that you are here not to help a debate progress or to inform but simply to heckle.”
“The cannon, has in fact been fired in air, though the door sometimes doesn’t close, hardware and software side are still arguing. There is also still the small issue of its ammo supply, as in it is very small.”
Posting a link to a 100-page PDF over & over again is not a counter argument.