F-35 Joint Strike Fighter • One Cool Jet Plane
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- The F-35 is the world's most advanced multi-role fighter jet. It can take off in a short hop, plus it can hover and land like a helicopter. The short takeoff and vertical landing capabilities (STOVL) of the F-35 makes it ideally suited for carrier operations as in this video. It also has stealth technology which makes it virtually invisible to radar.
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What an awesome jet! 43,000 pounds of thrust and stealth built in from the beginning. It’s beautiful to look at as well.
*1:44** Get out from here😂😂*
despite of the critics about its combat performance and characteristics. i admit, compare to it predecessor, the "widow maker" harrier, f35b is a giant leap on technology, especially for the flight safety during take off/vertical landing. it's hard not to amaze. it's the best from her two sibling, the a and c series.
I’m going into the marines once I graduate college. Already got my guaranteed pilot slot, hoping to fly one of these!
@MIS TV let him have his 2 minutes of fame :(
How did you get a guaranteed pilot slot
Im not a military guy, the marines pilot jets? Thought thats AF or Navy
@@po2mapp804 marines I think are the only branch that guarantee a pilot slot, just have to pass the test and physical
How did it go?
All I can say is that "I love this F35!" Sweet, smooth yet deadly.
vertical landing!!!! amazing
Ari Lennox likes fighter jets 😍😍😍
It will see combat, you will be impressed, you will still cry. Circle of life
Amazing jet. I sleep better knowing the brave men and women of the most elite air power unit the world has ever seen is prepared to defend.
Ok. It's got issues. At least you can admit one thing, ... It's goddamn beautiful.
+Marvin „TheloniousMac” Price Meh... I'm waiting for VF-19 "Excalibur" ;)
***** Sadly no... But I'm waiting anyway ;)
The issues were easily fixed
They have fixed all the issues and updated its computer software with new software so that's it's more arrow dynamic now it's a beast I was not a fan until they did so and now I love it
Its thicc
The F-35 is the world's most advanced multi-role fighter jet. It can take off in a short hop, plus it can hover and land like a helicopter.
In fact its so good that after 25 years its still grounded almost daily and not officially in service yet a joke on the US taxpayer and all those silly enough to commit to it. B35 the Flyin Ponzi scheme
this is a flying brick
And the f18 pilots say shooting the 35 down is like clubbing baby seals
F-35, it's hard to survive in air combat. F-35 have used too much technical. If there are some technical failure Maybe it's a plane crash it all. It should be at NASA to the appropriate .
Choochat Prasertkun hard to figure out what your trying to say but in air combat so far the f 18 xan take a few at a time
the vertical lift is amazing
Sure every morning i am amazed by it. Just little bit embarrassing but goes automatically..
Really stable landing. I am impressed.
great touchdown at the end very smooth
No catapult or arresting wires needed. This aircraft looks amazing.
still cant beat the sheer badassery and steely eyed brass balled take offs of the Grumman F14 Tomcat.
Say it with me folks, "I feel the need...the need...FOR SPEED!"
Please give that officer on deck a raise!(The one whose hand signals is clearly on a different level) lol
I love this jet
I do not get how anyone could dislike this video unless they were middle eastern or russian
or they read about how bad this plane is and how much it costs.. seriously, this is a money sucker..
Or anyone who sees the massive cost overruns that are taking away from other vital areas... and the fact that it still won't be able to prevent IEDs from blowing up convoys.
Tvaxquivax You know costs are dropping very significantly, in the past year they have dropped from 300 million to 100 million for the production version of the B. And then there is the fact that the price of the T-50 keeps rising.
i love all this seasoned youtube fighter pilots that have obviously flown the f35 and are well aware of its capabilities
Greek air force welcomes you beast,it's time for hunting!! 🦃🦃
people always bash the f35 but forget how many other aircraft have had problems in their initial development. the point of testing is to work out these bugs so that later models being produced don't have them.
even the p51 mustang, the pride of ww2 american fighters had huge problems and caught on fire until they replaced the engine with a british one. Once they did that it became a killing machine.
the US needs an updated airforce because the current one is aging fast. the f35 fills the role and is a huge leap in technological capabilties
You just better pray that one of them two internal missiles hit anything it up against. Because it cant maneuver in a dog fight and is too slow to run. Waste of a lot of money that should've been spent on updating the f15 the worlds most successful jet.
justtelling you didnt pay attention to the video did you? The reliability of this working is only 50% of the time and other failures approx every 4 hours.
So why bring the f16 up, this is a real winner.
justtelling you didnt pay attention to the video did you? The reliability of this working is only 50% of the time and other failures approx every 4 hours.
So why bring the f16 up, this is a real winner.
yea, its almost like the f35 is still in testing.
it also has equal or better performance than the f16 currently.
its a real good thing the military has people in charge who know whats good and what isnt, and dont have to listen to retards. Every country that was skeptical went in and had classified briefings about the f35's capabilities, and immediately signed on to buy them.
burpless6148 later blocks of production have them with 6 amraams. do you understand how aircraft are produced?
Epic.
Thank you for sharing this video with us.
And thank you for your positive feedback.
Gung Ho Vids i think i saw a harrier doing the same thing faster in the 70s. And then the russian yak doing i a little time later. And faster.
***** i dont even remember what the video was about so do not really care.
Faster normally means quicker.
It is an epic piece of broken shit.
burpless6148
faster is different to quicker, in layman terms faster means a high top speed, where as quicker means get to that speed sooner :P
Astonishingly beautiful. A tactical work of art.
Looks like "Mikey" is just 'strapping' that plane on. Damn nice specs too. It has a few glitches like any other new concept, but they're going to be worked out and put behind it. I sincerely believe that.
It's the F-16, F/A 18 and Harrier all put in one jet.
Kevin James The bad bits, though... sadly.
Kevin James You forgot Yak-141
You're missing the point. and the Harrier is STOVL.
Except the first three actually work
That's the problem!
comic, the rafale number one
Respect from Germany.
But the best part is the people on the flight deck looking board as all hell hahahaha
Want to fully grasp how far aviation has come in the last 100 years, visit an aviation museum. The planes of WWI were crudely built with wood, fabric, steel cowlings and engines that resemble what might be in a 1930's tractor. WWII was a great leap forward, with aluminum, rivets, and powerful internal combustion engines, still planes could barely approach 500mph in a dive. In Korea and Vietnam jets were the order of the day in fighters, but still the technology was rudimentary compared to later models, the Sabre and Phantom. If you look at them closely, they are still simple in their construction. The F-14, F-15, F-16, and F-18 belong to a transitional era between the older construction methods and today. They represented the first series of fighters designed on computers before they began construction. Stronger engines and avionics allowed them to dominate the skies of Iraq in 1991. Then came the stealth age, with the F-117 and eventually the B-2 bomber. Both were key in bringing about the 4th Generation fighters such as the F-22 and F-35. Look closely at an F-22 or F-35 and you'll see engineering brought to near perfection. The one thing that hasn't changed (yet) is the Fighter Pilot, still physically and mentally strong, sure of themselves and fast to react, the cutting edge of the warrior elite. This may be the last series of fighter aircraft to be piloted. The limitations of the design incurred by a human are holding back the performance they are capable of. The 5th Generation will like be unmanned fighters, so hail to the cutting edge and those who fly them. The future is just around the corner, so many advancements have taken place in the last 100 years, and we are just getting started.
this jet is awesome !!!!
in aircraft carrier this plane done need compressor acceleration while takeoff unlike other jets and landing vertical thats cool .........
Love reading all the negative comments from the world's 12 year-old aeronautical engineers.
"12 year olds"
I'm impressed that the landing and take-off footage seems to have been taken on an LHD rather than a CV.
The marine version do operate on cv’s. Only the navy version.
well its time for me to grab some popcorn and sit here listening to the entire internet shit on the f-35
Exactly what i'm thinking to do now.
BTW, i wonder if there are someone here that reminds the shitstom that hit the F16 when it entered in service, in the late 70s...
I looked up it's specs and all the other planes are better. So what is it exactly that makes this so much better
Cool design awesome to fly in bf4 but from what I read, I heard it was a big waste of money on a jet that never became mass produced
It's supposed to be replacing the A10, but they're having problems with the F35
That one trillion is for the lifetime cost of the project. 3,000 jets at $85 million each is $255 billion. The cost to just fly a fighter aircraft is about $40,000 per hour.
this pilots a pretty much among the luckiest people on earth
hard work pay off
The best machine in American history.
You're right about that the F-22 is an incredible machine.
XBOX360 GT/DANIEL W180 Russian parrot.
Freaking Spaceship.
A broken spaceship that is just for commercials and is a decade old paper weight.
im still very much skeptical about this aircraft and its effectiveness...being jack of all trades and master of none
I love how there is so much hate for this jet, yet half of the critics have no idea how the development plan of this jet was supposed to take place. So many of the original projections were.. at best, educated guesses. But with the current batch of developmental F35's, they have already hit the 100 million mark with the jet engine, and are well on their way to being the promised 83 million per jet.
If you trolls would actually do some serious research, you would know that the current fleet of about 160 F-35's were never meant to be mass produced units, rather, units to TEST AND PURPOSEFULLY BREAK THINGS so that when it DOES, AND IT WILL go into full production, it wont have the issues these EXPERIMENTAL F35' CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTION IN SMALL BATCHES TO KEEP COSTS LOW, will have. It will be as close to flawless as you can get today with a jet aircraft.
This Jet has only suffered one, count them with your finger, ONE lost jet due to malfunction. No other jet in US HISTORY WHILE IN EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTION has pulled that off. If you are taking Pierre's word for it that this is a "turkey" You are just as immature and a fake as he is.
IE, being a Defense Analyst, as Pierre is, DOES NOT EQUAL being an actual engineer actually designing and actually physically building the jet, which he did nothing of with the F16, or the A-10. He just has the disturbing childish habit of calling any project he is not a part of crap, or a Turkey.
Ok. Cant deny how cool it is with its vertical landing/ take off capabilities.
I believe that every single American Tax Payer should be proud of this amazing piece of defense equipment.
i want it in my garage
The F-22 is a beast, the PAK-FA even more. The F-35....well at least the cockpit has a nice design...
Capt. Mike does not look happy even though he is sitting into a brand new plane, that shows Mikey knows more about the plane than us :).
I sadly remember F-14
Everyone is saying the F-35 is bad. You try pilot this thing. You think you know everything about this vehicle and ignore the fact that it is the most advanced aircraft in the world.
Qnd then comes the fact that it hasn't been deployed in it's 13 years of development so of course no one would know how to fucking pilot it. It hasn't reached the fucking skirmishes of the field yet.
You dont deploy an aircraft still in development, dipshit.
F35 is trash. My fuckin Micki mouse minivan can go faster.
People comment on the cost of this aircraft . Well after threes since this video was posted , the F-35 is now manufactured in Italy and Japan now . The unit cost has come down to 85 million per jet because of procurement . This year alone the cost has come down 667 million dollars .
The F-35 was always cheaper than the Eurofighter and recently it was just $20 million more than the latest F-18.
Beautiful people! beautiful music! beautiful vehicles! thanks God for this country!
This will be one of the greatest aircraft of all time. Just wait.
Maybe not... or maybe yes, who knows.
Hikinit There will be better in the future.
so fucking amazing!!!!
+seatgurus What amazes you ? It's small wings are limiting it to around 3 to 4 g. It is underpowered for it's size. I watched 3 demos on YT of it in airshows, I never saw hi g manuevering, the ooh and ahh factiors were all around the hover. Which is useless for all branches except Marines.
Dace Davis what about the navy now they can use these on the helo carrier's and it's not underpowered the f16 has 30,000lb of thrust while the f35 has 40,000 and it's not far either it can get up to mach 1.9 (mabye further) and mach 1.6 with full weapons load
Crikey I just read some of the comments below and it seems like I've wandered into an aircraft engineers convention. So many experts.
This is the winner of the "How-much-money-can-we-possibly-spend-on-an-aircraft-that-does-many-many-things,-but-nothing-especially-well" military sweepstakes!
The F-35 can do multi air and ground targeting at the same time allowing other weapon systems to hit targets in real time. The only other aircraft that can do that is the Apache D and E models.
F-35C had it's first arrested landing today aboard the Nimitz.
Yea, here's the video - F-35 Lightning II • 1st Arrested Landing On Aircraft Carrier
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+Top 10s it is has been, not was
Top 10 not yet
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Those airbreaks are massive
Wow landing is like helicopter and it can hover!!
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you americans talking shit about this beauty i wish my country saudi arabia had one of these, my dad remember the The F-117 when it was deployed in saudi arabia to fight in iraq that was a beast
and also terribly inefficient. F-35 is not a beast. F-35 is a brick.
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Bachelor in Science Major Aviation Minor Counter-terrorism and intelligence. You can see why i shorten it, so i ask why is that funny?
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Correct.I agree with you. That is somehow technology in between
"multi role fighter “and helicopter...
Look at that sea and the sky! Looks like someone just found the perfect playground place!!!!!
just like helicopter yeah. Americans always best !
Hahahaha you right dude 😉
Did did did you see it? It’s... it’s. MEGATRON
No its decepticon
Heard nothing but bad press about it. But looks solid. Now if only we could get them delivered for the new carriers
Fucking sick and badass!! People dont understand what these jets are capable of becuase theyre not the pilots flying it! Worth every penny.
Nothing beats an F-16
ThousandFilms ...except an F-35
Yep. Beats an F 35 any day.
Since when
An f22 :)
F-22 I think will give the f-16 a run for it's money, granted the hornet and super hornet models that aren't the greatest, and I agree that out of every jet that has seen combat, there are none more successful then the F-16, but in a dogfight I think the F-22 would be just as good with the upgrades of all the newer computer tech including better jamming tech, the new fighter helmets with display on visor, and the multi-role platform... but I agree that the F-16 is one of most superior jets ever made, and the most replicated jet fighter by all of our allies because of it, so the counter-tech for fighter jets from Russia and China are now almost specifically built to counter and beat the f-16's strengths because it is the jet they would most likely go against in almost any conflict because the amount produced by U.S. and all of the rest of our allies have used the f-16 design for their front-line jets.
USAF General Says F-35 Will Beat the Russians Like 'an Invisible Muhammad Ali'
"It forces the Russians to take a look at what we are doing and to realize that if they had to embrace us they might be in a position where they had to jump into a boxing ring and fight an invisible Muhammad Ali."
Russians reply-"Yes,if It Can Climb Into the Ring"
Not true. We even buy our rocket motors from them.
shut the fuck up Yankees u can't go to space right now without Russian Soyuz..
+lpj pj Russia couldn't have went to space without Ukraine so fuck off
Correct , that is a reason Ukraine still floating in a space like lost in space spaccraft , without any chances to come to Earth reality.Since Ukraine terminated relations with Russia,Russians never launch any spacecraft :)
You sure USAF Gen. Mark A. Welsh III said that?Cause its not the plane that brings a victory. Its who is flying it an got the skills to escape the fights alive.Does not matter what jet you got only people with skills flying them will make it back alive
thats a neat plane
the Coolest Bird i've ever seen..
thumbs up.......
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all these guys saying its a peice of crap who have never piloted a plane in their lives. lol.
Have you flown it yet? How was the experience? Were you on a combat mission to Syria or Afghanistan? You must be an ace.
@@tomlepski8306 , you're an ace for sure
This is so badass.
Very good
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but is it 2 trillion dollars cool?
Axyl not as cool as crumbling infrastructure
And I'd prefer having something worth defending in the first place. Otherwise why do we even bother?
Axyl id have no fear of being bombed when your defense budget is equal to the next 8 countries combined and have the strongest network of allies in the world
davis kampschror And just because you can afford to place armed-guards to watch over a worthless, empty lot does not mean that it's a particularly smart investment...
HipposHateWater whats your point
Beautiful airplane. Hello from Russia.)
It can't turn, can't climb, can't run. But it is gorgeous.
All of you arm chair generals are speaking out of your asses. You have no idea about Total Cost of Ownership. The fact is that the existing hardware is expensive to maintain. Many airframes were built in the 70s and 80s and are still being flown today. The whole idea is to replace many legacy attack/fighter aircraft with a single aircraft because there only needs to be a single supply chain, a single set of common parts, and parts engineered to last longer. The cost savings over 30 years will make all your arguments moot. Old planes have parts that are harder to acquire and therefore more expensive. Things that are handled electronically now were handled mechanically then, making the older parts heavier and more expensive. It's not just about the initial investment.
If you guys have any experience with manufacturing supply chains or logistics, you will know that if you have 20 different products all with parts that are not compatible with the other aircraft as well as different manufacturers who each have their own sub-suppliers and supply chain, it is horrendously expensive to manage.
Give it time, and the savings will show up.
"Give it time,"
"The cost savings over 30 years-"
Our enemies will wait that long?
Yes, but this has been a procurement fiasco. The "savings" are not going to show up.
nutsackmania WRONG
Look the F-22 is a fine aircraft. I'd go so far as to say excellent. We should have bought more. I have trouble saying that about the F-35. Now I was in the Air Force and I did in shop avionic maintenance. So, while that makes me in no way an expert on aircraft, I do know the essentials.
I have researched the F-35 because I want to like this aircraft. Look how awesome it looks, and it's VTOL in one configuration. Yet... I cannot. The fact is, that it seems it's that incorporating VTOL into the design is what has made this aircraft less than it should have been. Making room for the VTOL fan meant that it could only be single engine, plus it made the wings narrower. From all reports I can find, it's sluggish in a climb, takes too long to turn, and just flat out doesn't have enough range or speed.
The F-22 has super cruise but the F-35 doesn't. Why? It would see to be something we would want but it cannot because of it's weight and single engine. It's range is less than the F-22, again because of weight. Even without the VTOL fan, it still has only one engine the body has been widened, the wings shortened and made more narrow on all models.
Again, I want to like this plane. I really want to. It's freaking beautiful. Yet, I am worried. The Chinese stole the plans and built the fighter the F35 should have been. Drop the VTOL, or make a different design for the Air Force and Navy. I know they leave out the VTOL for them but I am saying slim down the body, extend and strengthen the wings and add another engine.
Then we will have a game changer. The Chinese cannot match out avionics. Period. Nobody can. Not our jamming, not our stealth. Even with the designs they did not get a lot of the stuff that makes these planes stealthy. The special resins, and coatings etc. We can have an incredible aircraft, but unless they change it... I think we are going to only have an ok one. OK, is just not good enough for our military. Not at this cost in money, and the possible cost in lives.
robert smith You sure wrote long enough, Trouble is you are all wrong. The f-35s are doing just fine THANK YOU
Scott Gist
All you have to do is fallow the reports on the F-35s testing and you will see that they are in production, testing is ahead of schedule and for the most part complete. Pilot training is in full swing. They will also be appearing at air shows starting in July of this year. They will be in full service in 2017. There was is no big push to rush it into service, Because the aircraft it is replacing are still in service and will be for some time, but they are not producing them anymore. You must understand that the F-35s are replacing at least four aircraft programs and is multi- national in use. The cost of the aircraft programs that the F-35s are replacing is very much less expensive that the total cost of those programs. The F-35s will give us the most technically advanced fighter in world and will serve us will for decades.
Josh Graham
WRONG it is doing sorties in the middle east at this moment. Where the hell have you been?
Josh Graham Well, the problem with your argument (which is essentially that the F-22 has no combat experience) is that it would involve... combat. Now personally I am not one to wish for combat to take place to test new weapon systems. It is being tested in it's bombing, penetration, and ground support roles, and by testing I mean killing people in those roles. So you want us to kill or start a war to test this air combat? That is essentially your argument you know. It has been tested in mock combat, but that's not good enough? It has essentially been tested in every way possible except actually killing other aircraft, but you want that too? Who should we kill I ask? Because it is not even a question against older fighters that the middle east might have. China? You would have us start a war with China to test an aircraft?
I hope you see the fallacy of your argument here.
Josh Graham
Little do you know.
Some were flew to us in the UK for our Air Force might I say they look amazing. Sure it’s not built for dogfights but the technology it has is next level!
idk why dogfights are taken in consideration anymore. planes never dogfight anymore. They kill eachother before they are able to have a look at eachother.
very nice.
So in exchange for a hundred-billion-over-budget, seven-year-behind-schedule project we get this sweet propaganda video? Totally worth it. USA! USA!
+Monster LMA Nnnnnope. No other weapons program in US history has cost this much or been this far behind original schedule. It took 12 years after the first ever satellite launch to land men on the moon. JSF program is now 20 years old, and F-35 has difficulty just getting airborne.
+mrjpb23 Just because you say it doesn't make it true
+mrjpb23 take ur own advice
Vincent Chen "Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the most expensive acquisition in military history and one of the most controversial. Currently seven years behind schedule and $167 billion over budge, the F-35 program could cost over $1 trillion over its lifetime." (read.bi/29ADLe4) These are widely-known facts… Literally no one has ever disputed this, fan or critic.
mrjpb23 well, that's true. But $1 trillion over its lifetime sounds pretty good for what it is, cheaper than maintaining old fighter jets from the 70s. It is the most expensive program, like there is always a highest grossing movie. Over budget, behind schedule, like someone said, that's like every aircraft. The F18 was even longer, the last big issue was in 2000s. I would be very suprised if it was right on schedule and right on budget. But who cares? I'm just a idiot on the internet just like you
They finally build a plane with the capabilities of one built by the British in 1969! well done 😕
+Paul Davenport Do u honestly think this thing is as reliable as the Harrier?
Paul Davenport And a whole lot more.
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this is the plane that is over budget and coming out later than plan at least add so cool fireballs
Yak-141 :)
Yak 141 what?
NANI?
2:34 Norway, fuck yeah!
incredible and wonderful jet.. i work in argentina Air Force
nice to see the uk has took order of some of these.
Yeah we traded Harriers for these but after we realised how undeveloped they were we took our Harriers back.
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Israel shit country. Fuck shitsrael
Picking up fight with everyone ..classic American . Haha.
flying turtle
+Gamerinjacket turd*
No it's a turtle
+Gamerinjacket So was Gamera.
Gamerinjacket how so?
this is the greatest video
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Super expensive shit that ten years may not adopt ...
Gotta pay to play.
+poplug $1.5 trillion is the lifetime cost for operations, support, fuel, personnel, etc up to the year 2065, inflation adjusted. To instead support legacy fighters until then would cost about $4 trillion.
edawg792 Everyone talks about how expensive it is. well it costs 1.5 trillion to develop plus the other things you said. It costs 80-100 Million for each unit and it costs about 100.000$ to fly (fuel)
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The F-35's basic design and technology was taken from the Russians
Tony Blair Lol
No it wasnt
Gracias por mostrar estos hermosos pájaros son los número 1
Cool I enjoy seeing my parts I machine on the F-35. I machine the flaps on the back of the engine. I'm a CNC machine operator specialist.
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facepalm ...
...a 1$ trillion+ waste of taxpayer money.
+Gung Ho Vids: As it seems the reply link no longer works and thus you seem to get the last say Ill add the following here...
Grew up in a Republican family back when the party still had real "moderates", common sense, and actually supported social programmes and ideals. The party went downhill in the 1980s when it first became wrapped up with the religious right and eventually turned into the group of right wing extremists we have today. As an axample of how far the party has swung, John Boehner is well to the right of being a true moderate, however he is considered so when compared to the rest of the party today.
Ike warned us of the dangers the Military Industrial Complex. posed when it came to involvement national policy. We never heeded that (and back then, it was the Democratic administrations which continued to promote it)
A Centtury ago another Republican Senator, Robert "Fighting Bob" LaFollette, embraced and promoted many of the ideals the party today vehemently opposes.
Not saying there weren't a few bad apples like Joe McCarthy, But today that seems to be the norm rather than the exception where the party is concerned.
Back to the main discussion...
The F-35 is based on the Yak 41/141 concept (which Lockheed actually was a development partner in back in the early 90s). While it isn't a direct copy, much of the initial concept still comes from the Russian programme. My argument is it's not whether it is or is not superior in air to air engagement, it is more, is such a costly programme warranted while this nation is being allowed to fall apart (sometimes literally with regards to our infrastructure) from within and Congress seems loathe to address the fact?
The M-IC needs an adversary relationship with someone to continue justifying its existence. With the demise of the Soviet Union and Russia now an "ally" (as well as supposedly China), the new "enemy" has become international terrorism. Apoligies, but I don't see many terrorist groups flying around in advanced supersonic stealth jet fighters or using state of the art sensor/radar and missile systems.
As. slow, old, simple, and ugly as it may be, the A-10 has more than proven it's worth in the air to ground superiority role, a role which is most effective against terrorist groups.
This is the future of warfare, not big fleets of ships or fronts of armoured forces facing each other off. Global war today would be detrimental for everyone involved as economies are so intertwined and dependent on each other...
...and many nations know it.
We already saw the beginnings or this in Vietnam where we engaged a cunning enemy who didn't abide by the "standard" battlefield tactics and conventions which we were geared to deal with since WWII. This was a guerilla war, and we were totally ill equipped to fight it even given the might of our military machine back then. Terrorist groups use very similar tactics and don't care about something known as the Geneva Convention. They wage their fight by their rules just like the Vietcong did, not ours or that of some international; organisation'. They are not above using tactics like human shields which makes much of our heavy firepower (which the F-35 is part of) useless for fear of collateral civilian deaths.
We still have yet to learn the lesson Vietnam taught us that just throwing our military weight around does not necessarily mean "mission accomplished". One only has to look at who has been in control of Vietnam for forty years, or how much more unstable the Middle East has become today following the second iraq war.
Not living in the past, but I do accept that history can be a good teacher.
Lockheed made a different design the yak had 3 engines the f35 has 1
Anh chàng điều khiển phi cơ cất cánh ngầu chẳng kém chàng phi công. From Việt Nam. I love UsArmy.
Why the Army and not the Navy, he flies for the Navy.
I might sound stupid here, but what exactly makes this plane bad? To me it seems incredibly advanced and practical. I don't see any problems with it apart from its price tag. So why all the hate towards this aircraft?
pixelking its un-educated people who hate on this aircraft, the F-35 completed the “comprehensive flight tests” without a single loss or fatality, and shooting down more targets than any other aircraft in US history who participated in such tests, the price tag is the only drawback
If you look up stats like top speed, handling etc it is trash compared to the new Russian sukoi su 35 for example. But it is so stealthy and other things that make it the best. The USA has a lot of other planes that rival su 35 in specs so if for some reason the stealth didn't work it doesn't matter.
Fadzilicious the F-35 was not designed to be a dog fighter, hence the lower specs compared to fighters that ARE designed for such combat, the F-35 is designed to be so stealthy that it will take out an enemy fighter before said enemy fighter even knows the F-35 is there, and i wouldn’t worry to much about its stealth capabilities being bad or anything, its already proven that its one of the most, if not the most, stealthy fighters ever built