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Oh dear....Johnny Got His Gun
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RE: Oh dear....Johnny Got His Gun
Not eager to defend the status quo, but with the Civil War and WWI and WWII, the US Government has learned that throwing enormous quantities of resources at a problem = victory.

They aren't going to change.

As long as we don't have to fight Israel, we're probably OK.
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RE: Oh dear....Johnny Got His Gun
Quote:Not eager to defend the status quo, but with the Civil War and WWI and WWII, the US Government has learned that throwing enormous quantities of resources at a problem = victory.


I'm trying to figure out what we need a trillion dollar fighter for when our enemy's most successful attack relied on box cutters?
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RE: Oh dear....Johnny Got His Gun
Combat ready huh......so I guess the idea is that the pilot flies it into something, like a very expensive missile..........I'm with Min, we could have hijacked alot of passenger jets for that much money to the same damned effect.
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RE: Oh dear....Johnny Got His Gun
(February 2, 2015 at 4:58 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Computer code.

As the article explains further down.

Quote: Lockheed Martin apparently couldn't be bothered to write in code to connect the JSF's trigger to its gun. Air Force officials say that Lockheed Martin is telling them that it's going to take another four full years -- until 2019 -- to integrate the seemingly simple code into its web. -


How'd you like to be a pilot in a dogfight and press the trigger and get the little buffering icon on your display? Not too happy I imagine.


Don't worry. F-35's maneuverability, acceleration and agility are all well below the standard set by last generation of fighters (from the 1970s). It relies on wiz bang stealth and "situational awareness" to "dominate" airspace.

If the Mig is close enough to shoot at with guns, the Mig will fly circles around the F-35 and the f-35 will never be able to bring its guns on target before the Mig has taken its killing shot. So the fact that the gun won't fire makes no difference.

(February 2, 2015 at 6:03 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:Not eager to defend the status quo, but with the Civil War and WWI and WWII, the US Government has learned that throwing enormous quantities of resources at a problem = victory.


I'm trying to figure out what we need a trillion dollar fighter for when our enemy's most successful attack relied on box cutters?


In defence of the Air Force, it has done far more than throw money at the problem of f-35's abysmal kinematic performance. It has also lowered each kinematic performance benchmark time and again, in most cases to successive points each well below what 1970 era Soviet and Chinese jets are capable of, so the airforce can come a little close to being truthful when it says the awesome f-35 has beaten every performance bench mark.
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RE: Oh dear....Johnny Got His Gun
Um, Chuck.

Sounds like every performance bench mark has beaten the F-35.

P-O-V is everything, I suppose.
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RE: Oh dear....Johnny Got His Gun
And here in Europe they complained about the Typhoon development costs. Peanuts!
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