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U.S. Air Force grounds F-35 fighters over cooling line problems
- gaius 10y agoA flaw in the F35 will ground the USAF, USMC, US Navy, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, the West's two most-capable air powers. That will leave... France to defend Freedom.
- abysmallyideal 10y agoThe planes will be obsolete within two decades in almost all scenarios except against alqeada. They're already obsolete against Russian missiles and radar defense and soon against Chinese defenses. I'd diminish orders on these flying pigs and wait for the Japanese stealth scout planes to finish prototype with their better designed and maintenance friendly framework.
- analognoise 10y agoIt's easy to make a paper plane and claim it is better. It is far harder to make hundreds of superior air-war machines with extremely advanced capabilities. That being said, I think the design is a mistake and we should go back to not trying to make everything a multi-role plane - a plane with one, maybe two, mission profiles.