1. Gun can’t hit shit the recoil throws the plane off target.

No. That was a bullshit report that was the aviation equivalent of a kid in his dad’s car crowing about beating the guy in the next lane from the light when no one said they were racing.

http://jerryofgarcia.kinja.com/f-35beast-fully-loaded-from-the-future-1788789885

Imaginary? What freaking planet do you live on?

“Topping” a trillion is wrong. The trillion is projected cost over the 50-year lifetime of the program. Fifty years of fuel. Fifty years of maintence. Fifty years of training. The trillion dollars has the truth of: A) Not having been paid out yet; B) Being much less money involved than the prospect of keeping…

Easy there. Nobody of consequence called him an ISIS agent and that kind of over exaggeration does not contribute to the conversation in any positive manner. Some dumbass in congress wondered if he was “playing for another team” or some such. Hardly an accusation of being a member of a Jihadist group. Ya they weren’t…

this program has managed to top $1T

It fought against F16s in the summer and I think the result was 27-0.

I thought the A-10 had sort have been saved?

I smiled when I read this. Thanks! I needed something like that, this morning.

Some Sukhoi orders imminent I wonder!?

Thing is, it is only in the last few years that the programme’s costs have actually come under control!

I thought Obama was just finishing up his 8 years in office. Have I been mislead?

I still would still challenge anyone to show me a cost model where lifetime costs of multiple platforms would come anywhere close to as cheap as the F-35 will be. And I’d also like someone to show me a meaningful test (aka, high AoA control envelope testing of the F35 doesn’t count) where the F-35 hasn’t been…

Still recycling a debunked ‘it can’t maneuver as well as an F-16 when restricted to high alpha!’ BS.

Though of course the STOVL variant is the one that is really good. It’s not as good as the A or C, but it’s the first time there has ever been a STOVL fighter even remotely close in capabilities to its conventional contemporaries. 

“I’m working out a deal that will buy us second-hand Su-27s to replace the F-35. Don’t worry, I know a guy, I know all the best people.”

And on February 5th we can see Sukhois fly over the Super Bowl. Good times.

When he threw a temper tantrum about Air Force One costing $4 Billion over 20 years, I literally said “boy, he’s really gonna shit himself when someone tells him what the JSF-35 is costing us........”

Let’s translate what Trump said: