Not when it’s going to cost half a billion dollars just to get the line working again.

Oh yeah, that deal made for some very strange bedfellows. The Hardliners in Iran were doing just about everything in their power to scuttle the talks led by the civilian government, and their moderate President. Iranians understand US politics better than most Americans do. They knew what the process was for approving…

If people on both sides are whining about it being a bad deal, that probably means it was a relatively good deal, objectively. It means that neither side got everything it wanted, which is the point of a deal.

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It’d be nice, but why do that when you can make a variant of the 6th gen fighter to do the same thing?

FB-22 concept art.

“Testing to characterize the thermal environment of the weapons bays demonstrated that temperatures become excessive during ground operations in high ambient temperature conditions and in-flight under conditions of high speed and at altitudes below 25,000 feet. As a result, during ground operations, fleet pilots are…

Damn...with this sort of quality control they should start calling it the

The problem with the Russian approach comes down to doctrine. Russia doesn’t mind being defenseless/offenseless. The US takes major issue with capability gaps. THAT’S the main driver for any defense program. Something is reaching its end of life and we need a replacement. You can trace it back even further to a…

Obligatory?

This is a RADAR bug:

More effective and less expensive? Not really.

Finally a use for them!

Fucking hell. Kelly Johnson designed, tested and built the SR-71 in four years using nothing but slide rules and black coffee, and every single part of that plane had to be invented first.

The answer to your question at this point is “yes, but we didn’t.”

That right there is some unamerican Russia style thinking.

This program is too big to fail. They will make it work. US’s strategic advantage—in terms of exports of fighter aircrafts—is at stake. If this program fails, so goes the share of US’s fighter jet market.

F-35: “It's not a bug, it's a feature."

When we waste money on these super “advanced” aircraft while our roads crumble is when the terrorists win.

The F-35: Showing private contractors that there is more money to be made in repeated failure than in success.