RE: The F-35
February 16, 2014 at 4:43 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2014 at 4:47 pm by orogenicman.)
Someone here said that they are needed in order to keep our air superiority. What air superiority is to be gained that we don't already have? When was the last time our air force lost the advantage of air superiority? We won the air war in WWII not necessarily because we had superior weapons, but because we had superior numbers. I believe that the notion that we should build ever capable aircraft that brings our pilots home every time is laudable, but not economically viable. The ones we already have in our inventory do a superb job. Why not just buy more, and train more pilots, if air superiority is really the issue? In other words, why not just stick with what we already know works well?
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
