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10212134 No.10212134[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

To sacrifice that amount of maneuverability and speed by adding the stupid lift fan thing just because our Men In Uniform (tm) wet themselves at the idea of landing on a carrier horizontally may as well be an act of genocide. The enormous amount of complexity that the STOVL system adds basically makes it such that even the slightest battle damage will probably make the STOVL system fail causing the plane to explode upon landing, meaning that every flyout of the F35 is a potential suicide mission. At best it is profiteering, at worst it is an attempt to sell our NATO allies inferior tech so we can enslave them one day.
I think the F35 is more aptly called the F56, because it is truly a 56% percenter fighter jet, because it is simply half assed.

>> No.10212139

>>10212134
Stay mad at our gripens

>> No.10212144

The F22 will always be the king of the sky, fuck the F35, it's trash.

>> No.10212145

>>10212139
You can just tell whoever came up with the stupid lift system thing probably fantasizes about sticking their dick in it

>> No.10212146

>>10212134
Is it 2011 that you can be so uninformed on the F35 capability?

>> No.10212147

>>10212146
>whiter than you, Mohammed

>> No.10212148

>>10212145
I think the lift system is a nice idea but it's not needed

>> No.10212160

>>10212148
I think whoever thought of it ought to be gassed :D

The F35 is the epitome of 'whiter than you', as though we wh*Te subhumans could even beat ISIS just because of our fancier equipment

>> No.10212166

>>10212147
I am on the burger free side of the Atlantic

>> No.10212172

a vehicle for hiding the black budget stuff. All those delays and problems sure provide great cover.

>> No.10212179

>>10212172
Yeap, just like how the US military hides its homosexuality

>> No.10212189

>>10212134
You said basically the same stuff I would've said.

>> No.10212192

It's weird how the Russians made the Mig-35 to come out at the same time as the F-35.

>> No.10212203

>>10212148
>>10212160
The idea has been around for a long time. In this case I think it was the Marines that really wanted it and they forced the company to re-engineer the planes to use this ridiculous system to redirect the engine thrust downwards. It adds a ton of weight and complexity to the planes that is not necessary. It's literally because they wanted just one plane to do everything.
The f35 is The Homer of planes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPc-VEqBPHI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw9gaEiQAxY

>> No.10212937

>>10212134
>the slightest battle damage
what do you think this is ww1? average distance between planes in dogfights has been at least 100km, either the whole plane gets incinerated into its constituent atoms with nothing left by a missile or you dont get a scratch its the way it has been since vietnam

>> No.10213374

>>10212145
It's so fucking loud goddamn it makes me horny

>> No.10213388

>Muh carriers
>Muh planes

Imagine unironically blowing trillions of dollars on this garbage in the age of falling space launch costs. Your shitty boat is a nice big floating target to an orbital weapon platform and it can strike with far more speed over a larger range than any plane.

>> No.10213611

>>10212134
That downward vectoring is only in the marine variant if I remember correctly, and is intended for use in areas that don't have operating runways.

If a war got so bad that carriers were taken out and airfields were blown to shit, a jet that can land anywhere is pretty valuable. Fortunately, war like that is and always will be, extinct.

>> No.10214132

>>10212134
Russian internet trolls still trying to make the F-35 not-happening, I see.

>> No.10214180

>>10214132
Wasn't its software shit initially?