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1. Shadowman311 (shadowman311@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 02:14:28 JST Shadowman311
   1 Trillion Dollar, 30 Year Long Development Cycle, literally called "The Lightning", can't fly near a thunderstorm. Gee I wonder why BRICS is starting to throw it's weight around.
   
   dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12542479/f35-crash-south-carolina-storms-bad-weather.html
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 02:14:24 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     blame king nigger. They wanted to buy enough to replace the eagle fleet forever, but he canceled the production contract at 187 completed aircraft, when there were 280 ordered.

     I love the raptor because it’s the perfect example of retarded institutionalism (granted I got this from old memory, may not be super correct). They pretended that they would shut it down and start building the F-35 in the facility, but save all the tooling, record all production methods, and retain everything needed to restart the line and make more.

     Then all of 5 years pass and they start admitting that they were missing it. Tooling gone, procedures missing, the usual. Then the narrative popped up that ACTUALLY they deliberately destroyed it to keep the chinks from getting that super valuable cutting edge 1992-era design.

   • CatSoc :nv: (catlord@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 02:14:25 JST CatSoc :nv:

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     • synapsid
     I wish the F22 had stuck around. It was my favourite aircraft, as a kid.
   • synapsid (synapsid@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 02:14:26 JST synapsid

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     Let's get this straight: In peacetime, on domestic soil, we're have trouble maintaining and flying our F-35 fleet, but somehow in wartime (with Russia & China), we'd be able to deploy this same fleet across the world and repair them without issue in the middle of a war zone?
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   • leespringfield1903 (leespringfield1903@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 02:14:26 JST leespringfield1903

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     • synapsid
     The designer of the F-16 referred to the F-35 as a flying turkey.
     
     Usually wars enhance the designs of a plane looking at how innovations happened to aviation during both World Wars.
     
     Planes still primarily run on Jet Engines since the 2nd edition, the last major innovation.
     
     During Vietnam, the first F-4 Phantom had no minigun attached because designers believed that all dogfights were to be by missiles.
     
     After discovering during combat that missiles are a finite source in the air, and don't just reload like its ace combat. The minigun was brought back in future versions.
     
     Russia isn't using its air force much in Air to Air combat since the first or second day of the war. All they do is use cruise missiles to blow up the planes before they can get off the runaway.
     
     Now to think the retarded kike of keef believes the F-16 will be able to get off the runway unless Poland is willing to lend their airfields but that will just open up the theater of operations to Russia start bombing polish airfields out of necessity.
   • Shadowman311 (shadowman311@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 02:14:27 JST Shadowman311

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     I mean seriously, when was the last time our fighter planes had to worry about thunderstorms? WW1?
   • Titanbreaker-kun (titanbreakerkun@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 02:14:48 JST Titanbreaker-kun

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     >The designer of the F-16 referred to the F-35 as a flying turkey.
     
     Pierre Sprey, who called the F-35 a flying turkey, did not design anything with wings. That kike, who lied his way in to the media spotlight, stole credit for designing the F15, F16, and the A10.
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