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2018-02-01 Science & Technology
F-35 Problems: Late IOTE, F-35A Gun Inaccurate, F-35B Tires, Threat Data, Cyber…
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Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-01 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Can Musk shoot them into space?
Posted by Skidmark 2018-02-01 00:43||   2018-02-01 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 F-35B Tires

Ah, they don't need 'em, it's VTOL. Give it pogo sticks.
Posted by gorb 2018-02-01 02:29||   2018-02-01 02:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Is the F-35 turning into the aerial version of the Gama Goat? An innovative concept that proved to be a nightmare in real life: ...complex articulated drivetrain made maintenance difficult (the lubrication order alone took around six hours).
Posted by magpie 2018-02-01 02:39||   2018-02-01 02:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Gama Goat? Magpie, we're dating ourselves again, ha.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-01 02:40||   2018-02-01 02:40|| Front Page Top

#5 I had to take one of those for a test drive familiarization. Fundamental violation of the KISS principle.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-02-01 07:47||   2018-02-01 07:47|| Front Page Top

#6 ooops, suppose to be a line through. aaaccckkkk. back to coffee.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-02-01 07:48||   2018-02-01 07:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Like I have said all along, the guys running this program were like kids in a candy store with all of the shiny things and really neat techie things they decided they had to have on this aircraft.

Its a flying iPhone and no one is talking about this computerized "wonder" being vulnerable to EMI jamming of critical components...how do you fly by wire when your flight control computer has been hacked or targeted by an EMI burst from a weaponized microwave oven or a satellite dish.

I hope Mattis gives the bum's rush to these idiots who completely forgot what they were supposed to be providing to the military...an aircraft that shoots down the enemy and strafes ground targets...

Oh lord, I can remember when I was called on the red carpet for having a low operational readiness for parts...command thought there was some issue with the lack of command supervision of how the equipment was used...oh come on man, those are freaking tanks and they are supposed to be able to take rough use...

I think we need to dissolve these high ranking program offices and put together a bunch of pilots to design the next aircraft...isn't that how the F-18 was developed...after the Air Force said they didn't need guns on their new planes?
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-02-01 09:55||   2018-02-01 09:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Reminds me of Porsche's German super tanks. To complicated to work in the field.
Posted by Woodrow 2018-02-01 10:09||   2018-02-01 10:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Legit question: If this is as bad as it looks, what do we replace it with?
Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2018-02-01 15:55||   2018-02-01 15:55|| Front Page Top

#10 "Legit question: If this is as bad as it looks, what do we replace it with?"

The F-22?
Posted by newc 2018-02-01 17:30||   2018-02-01 17:30|| Front Page Top

#11 Anecdotal information states the YF-23 was a superior aircraft to the F-22. So much so that they have permanently classified its top speed, which according to its program manager was "extremely fast."

I'd vote for dusting off the YF-23 and then investing in an upgrade to the F-18.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-02-01 18:03||   2018-02-01 18:03|| Front Page Top

#12 Good isea Sock. I did hear they are upgrading the F-22 we have.

The F-35 move was strictly a political decision I think by that idiot 110th Congress (The worst America ever had)
Posted by newc 2018-02-01 18:34||   2018-02-01 18:34|| Front Page Top

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