The F-35 is cool as fuck and I'm tired of pretending that it's not. >800+ airframes delivered so far

The F-35 is cool as frick and I'm tired of pretending that it's not.

>800+ airframes delivered so far
>3 new airframes EVERY WEEK (economies of scale)
>Block 4 with TR3 on the way
>APG-85 soon
>AETP almost guaranteed at this point
>Some new DARPA laser shit

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    F35_crash.webm contrarianism posting incoming in 3... 2...

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why does it make CSTO seethe soo much?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's a technology they can never reach at a price point and in volume they can never match, flow by pilots at a level they could never train themselves.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The J-20 has 20% numbers of F-35, costs more each than a F-35, and is half a generation behind.

        And pilots quality are suspect so is doctrine, systems and motivation.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Because they know they will never be able to make an equivalent, or to make more than ten of them.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's lame because it doesn't have a GAU-8. Every airframe should have at least two GAU-8's going forward.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      brrrrrrrrrrrt to you too fellow r/aviation friend!!!
      I fricking LOVE the A-10!!!!!
      Too bad the F-35 can't compete with it's weak 20mm gun /s

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Reddit lives in your head rent free. Find GOD instead of wieners, anon.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        F-35 has a 25mm gun, anon.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Thats 5mm too small.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Words you've heard a lot, huh?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >sleeping with someone who uses metric
              Can only be forgiven if they are tiny japanese waifu. Disgusting otherwise.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >putting the gau 8 inside the fuselage of a plane where you can barely even see it
      they should be given to air defence mechs, that way it will increase civilian morale when people see a giant robot shooting down incoming drones and missiles.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      For a twin jet it should be three.
      >one facing forward, your primary weapon
      >also used to announce your arrival in an airspace to your enemies
      >their radar may not see you but they will hear you
      >two facing rearward, these replace the engines for a substantial reduction in fuel consumption
      >gone are the days of having to search for ground targets
      >you simply fly over while raining depleted uranium on them
      >in flight refueling is conducted as normal but with a belt feed rather than fuel probe

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's so fricking based. I never expected it to turn out well. I mean no one else did either but I'm glad my homie Ash Carter (RIP) proved us wrong.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Ash Carter
      I just wikipedia'd this guy, what a pedigree. What have I been doing w/my life.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >tfw ukrainegays don't even remember when /k/ gigaseethed about it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >when /k/ gigaseethed about it
      resident vatniks like armatard are not /k/

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Let us be real, that was more a small but very loud minority than anything else.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >dumbfricks suddenly represent all of /k/

      no.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Two of them buzzed the airport I work at today. Probably on test flights since Plant no.4 is just 45 minutes away.

    But, all the old guys that retired in the last 8 years, including my old man, can only talk about how amazing General Dynamics was, and how lame Lockheed had been running the facility and production line after 2006. Layers upon layers of mismanagement pushing around lazy union workers.

    But let me tell you how based the F-16 is.
    >in production 1974 to FRICKING TODAY
    >only 4 years from first flight to full rate production
    >flew before it's first flight
    >over 4600 built
    >during the height of F-16 production, they were rolling out A PLANE A DAY
    >has had literal thousands of mods and upgrades
    >long standing combat history
    >phenomenal readiness rate
    >Have Glass, Pacer Mud
    >F-16XL, Vista, MATV, F-2, F-16N, F-16IN, HiMAT, F-16SFW, AFTI, F-16ES, GCAS, LOAN, DSI, etc etc
    >thunderbirds

    Lastly, ranking the based levels of the aircraft that rolled out of that plant goes:
    F-16XL>F-16>B-36>F-111>B-24>B-58>F-35

    I wouldn't know how to cope if I was a F-35 fanboy.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >the plant can roll out F-35 at half the rate of F-16
      >as many F-16s MOGGED per sortie as an F-35 can carry missiles
      I'll take that

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