F-35 Lightning II: News thread

JohninMK wrote:Looks like they still have the vulnerability to lightning problem with the F-35A. I am sure they didn't mean that when they named it Lightning 11  

GarryB wrote:Fireball is good... it can't fly fast enough to be considered for Meteor...  

"For the F-35, selective math is the weapon of choice to try to make the costs of this struggling program disappear and give the impression that the jet is quite a bargain."

P.S. That crashed F-35 was worth 175 million bucks, iirc.

https://twitter.com/gunner_schmulke/status/1319424864994951170

https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2020/10/selective-arithmetic-to-hide-the-f-35s-true-costs/

The F-35 fighter jet programme’s costs were inflated after China compromised a software vendor in Lockheed Martin’s supply chain, forcing a ground-up rewrite of a potentially affected system, a policy wonk has claimed to UK Parliament.

https://twitter.com/gunner_schmulke/status/1327612978452160512

Excellent.
Why does it cost more than it should? China hacked it.
Why is the rest of the software a dysfunctional mess? Why is the plane a fat abomination? Why is the structure unsound and the oxygen system unsafe? We couldn't allow a good fighter to fall into Chinese hands!

It is stealth. That's why it's so important that turkey not use Russian radar to look for it. Because it is invisible.

thegopnik wrote:Hypoxia problems still occurring. https://www.airforcemag.com/t-6a-fleet-saw-fewer-but-more-frequent-physiological-episodes-in-fiscal-2020/

kvs wrote:In project management parlance there are way too many stakeholders in the F-35 program leading to both design by committee and
construction by committee.   All sorts of incompetent deciders demanded all sorts of BS functionality giving us this moronic
"wunderwaffe".   The KISS principle was not only rolled over by a tank, it was nuked from orbit.

The US Secretary of Defense spoke sharply about the F-35 fighter


Acting us Secretary of defense Christopher Miller during a press conference called the American fifth-generation fighter F-35 Lightning II "a piece of..." a Transcript of the official's speech was published by The Pentagon.

Miller recounted a recent conversation with a us air force Colonel, during which the Minister called the F-35 "a piece of..." and added: "we created a monster," despite the fact that the pilot considers the Lightning II "a fantastic aircraft." Miller also admitted that he "can't wait to leave this job."

Earlier, Bloomberg, citing the Pentagon's test Department, reported 871 aircraft defects, of which at least 10 are critical. Due to the modest combat qualities of the F-35, it is recommended to leave the battlefield when encountering modern fighters. Lightning II spent $ 1.5 trillion to build - the most expensive combat system in history.

Due to the modest combat qualities of the F-35, it is recommended to leave the battlefield when encountering modern fighters