Not pitching the F35 here, but do we buy jets for what we *want* to do, or to [within reason] prepare for worst case scenarios?

As much as that rustles my Canadian jimmies, it *may* have still had to be written. The costs of fighter programs keeps going up, the Avro Arrow may have been our first and last indigenously designed one for all we know. We may have still dropped other jet production and joined the JSF platform development still.

All fighter jets experience that at the heights they fly at.

There are a few good articles on why there are no diesel hybrids. The tl;dr I think is that their torque curves are not complimentary, unlike with gas. There are also several other factors that would make the benefit lesser than using batteries in gas cars.

As fast as a volt when the i8 is in electric only mode. When the assist system kicks in, it’s much faster.

Did that use it’s body to contribute to lift, rather than just the wings, as the F35 does?

I love the underside, it looks like a muscly shark’s. And that design also makes the body itself contribute to lift, which some critics of it’s wing area don’t understand.

One was deliberate fraud with a testing detection device...The other was an oversight.

“The F35 is a dog and was rejected by Russia when it was originally the Yak free style”

The F-15 is cheaper than the F-35, but we’re talking about the F-15 silent eagle. The estimated costs of that were *above* the F-35, nearly miraculously. It’s why few countries want it and there are no sales (apart from the Israel being blocked thing above). Only countries that aren’t cleared for the F-35 were…

No, but he’s talking about the Silent Eagle, which is far above the regular F-15 costs. There’s no infrastructure to build it in mass either which drives costs up. Last I checked it’s estimated costs were somewhere over 100M, and above the F-35. That’s why few countries are interested, some countries that aren’t…

I’m curious why Israel wanted it though? It’s per unit cost is supposed to be higher than the F35, especially as production of the latter ramps up, and Israel is a country cleared for F35 sales. Saudi Arabia isn’t though, so their interest makes sense.

Wait, what? The Silent Eagle costs more per unit than the F-35, certainly not under 50 mill. Especially as the SE has no production, while America is still buying 2000 F35s so costs will continue to drop (yes, they’ve been dropping)

That’s cool, but hey America, can you guys just go ahead and build these, for no reason other than I think it looks borderline orgasmic? Yes, that’s a F-15 with canards (STOL/MTD “Active”).

Yeah...With all the rumors I was expecting a bit more. Not including any sort of standard gaming controller means a much smaller marketshare that has them, which limits developer interest in making core games for it, which leaves it with waggle/simple games. And I wish it at least had A8X or A9, the Shield TV is far…

Are the requirements pretty much the same as Ground Zeroes? That played surprisingly nicely on even my Iris Pro 5200, I think 1440x900 mid-low at around 40fps.

Can’t seem to get it working again with Windows 10 :(

Each reboot, it says “cannot communicate with the trackpad++ driver”, I’ve tried reinstalling many times.

“Russia has also been working for close to a decade at finding a buyer internationally for the Su-35 without success.”

Didn’t they just agree to sell them to China?

Wouldn’t it take less than 10 minutes to walk a third of a mile? It takes about 20 to walk a full mile. That must be a pretty painful drive, as short as it is.

What do you mean, “have the radars to track US stealth aircraft”? Sure, a radar could do it, but at a closer range than the radar on the other craft would need to track them. And if you mean L-band radar, those can’t guide a missile to them, they at best just say “oh, there’s an F22/F35 around here”.