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ThePBot
Glad to see a leader of a major country not afraid of calling out the issues with the F-35. Every time the damn thing gets a re-work, the price goes higher and higher. No offense to that guy here in JT who I assume loves the F-35.
wanderlust
A number of pilots have written of re-booting the computers that control different systems over and over again, and having to call off training flights due to the airplanes just not working. A couple of millions of line of code just to fire the gun? The Lockheed Martin PR machine are in full offensive mode, after their losses with the F22-Raptor; now focusing not on what the plane can do, but on the jobs it is alleged to sustain and its theoretical capabilities (when it does fly), and less obviously of course the congressmen it keeps in power. The Military Industrial Complex in action.
Sabrage
Reminds me of the South Park episode "Inteli- Llink"
WilliB
The way the US governments have been pushing this extremely expensive and unproven piece of gadgetry, often against the wishes of the military experts, it is obvious that this is a political project. Good to see some government balking at it.
SenseNotSoCommon
Yes, folks: war is a racket.
smithinjapan
No problem in questioning something.
WilliB
That sort of hamfisted slogan is hardly helpful. Wars have all sorts of backgrounds; they have been part of human history since the first caveman picked up a rock.
loggediin
war is a racket. indeed. I second the motion. as a Canadian, I should give a flying fart, but I don't. let the upcoming immigrant population go on and pay for it all. sovereign nations should be vigilantly pushing for end of hostilities around the globe...but they don't...I truly wonder why. too many cookies in the jar. too many virgins up for grabs ( in the path of destruction they are, the multitude of innocents...) rate me thumbs up or you are a sleeze! mankind on the whole is seriously a bugger, ain't he?!
Cliffy
He criticizes it because it is from the conservative party with sole-sourced. Yet, his own party is doing the same thing with the super hornet purchase. It is so easy to point to someone. That's what the Liberal government had been doing from the provincial level up to federal level.
I would prefer drones. Replace that hundred something pounds pilot with same weight of ammunition. Never mind the cost of training a pilot and the crazy maneuver it can be done without the pilot.
Zaphod
Cliffy:
The Super Hornet is only fraction of the cost of the F35 and proven technology, not an open-ended bondoogle with an ever increasing price tag and and development delay. So, hardly the "same thing".
Cliffy
^ Of course not the same. I am referring to how they go about with the purchase - procedures.
MarkG
Until humans become exactly the same (impossible) wars will continue and the wares will be developed.
I certainly would not want a global totalitarian dictatorship like a select few nations at present.
HonestDictator
So wait, it was a multi-national investment into a new stealth fighter and now its supposedly just a "US" developed thing? Wow, hypocritical much? Title needs to be fixed.