F*ck you you ignorant POS. Thankfully dumb asses such as yourself have no say as to who wears the uniform and based on your stupid assed comment, it is unlikely you have either.

You are smoking crack if you think even for a moment that the motley collection of dirt mounds China has raised above the high water mark in any way, shape or form have anywhere near the force projection capabilities of a carrier group.

Ok, this response tells me you are a whackadoodle idiot, lol. Iam VERY interested in knowing where the right to stop Chinese dredging activity exists, outside of your fevered imagination. Trying to do any such t8hing would have pretty much been an act of war and an act that few other countries would have supported.

Your ignorance of both economics and the current state of the Chinese nation should preclude you from commenting on either, if you had any idea how little you knew or understood.

Argentina/Great Britain had McDonald’s AND a war long before that.

You are an idiot.

That is incorrect and has been for some time now. It was true up until the 80's or so, but as you may or may not be aware, both Argentina and Great Britain had McDonald’s before the Falkland War. Both Georgia and Russia had McD’s before their war, Russia and Ukraine etc.

You are incorrect. Canada is (and has been for a long time) our largest trading partner, although China is in the #2 place. Trade with Mexico is almost as much as there is with China and comb9ined trade in North America totally overwhelms US trade with China.

You are a complete and utter blithering idiot. Very little of consequence is made in China and nothing that cant be almost immediately duplicated in economic/trade terms in any one of a dozen other nations around the globe including the US.

The US could get along just fine without China and you are a fool to think otherwise. There is more than enough capacity in the world to absorb anything that China does and makes in short order with little to no impact on the wider economy of the West. China itself would be devastated, but the rest of the world that…

The F-22 and the F-35 are apples and oranges. For one, the F-22 is capable of flight and is operational and the F-35 is still trying to catch up after a much longer development time. The F-35 design was crippled by all the competing requirements put into it (especially the Marines ‘requirement’ of VTOL) and everything…

Gee, I wonder how many weapons the F-35 can actually use or has been successfully tested with? Since it cant even fire the AIM-120C successfully, I would be far more concerned about getting a basic mission critical capability that that worked out first. The software wont suppot anything beyond the AIM-120 and the JDAM…

An even better question might be: ‘Can anyone with a decent IRST system detect and lock on to the F-35 from between 50-75 nm out?’. Because the answer is ‘Yes’ to that question, means that regardless of how the best SAM system in the world does or does not handle this plane, it already has huge, gaping vulnerability.

You are a goddamn liar. The current cost of those planes is $185 million a year and your $90 million dollar number is as much of a fantasy and a lie as it has always been.

No, it isnt and I am sick of you liars saying it is.

You are an idiot and a liar.

You have a p0oint, but the cost of that bolt cannot be defended in any way shape or form. Yes, there are different tolerances, materials and testing that an aircraft part must undergo over a ‘Home Depot’ nut, but we cannot afford nor allow $2000 nuts, bolts or any other such boondoggles.

You are completely full of shit. The price of the plane isnt dropping at all and is still going to cost $185 million a pop this year, down from $186 million last year. I am sick of you fanbois quoting directly from the LockMart fan page of how much these planes are supposedly costing, rather than taking the cost…

The F-35 cant do SHIT right now, like and for instance fire the only missile it is currently slated to use (AIM-120C), which has only been successfully launched from the F-35 3 times.

This comment is a good example of the ‘rah, rah’ bullshit that fanbois write about this plane and the helmet is a great model for thy the F-35 is such a piece of junk.