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If you go over to /r/credibledefense and read up on the F-35 discussions sometime it'll probably change your mind about the program. It gets a tremendous amount

If you go over to /r/credibledefense and read up on the F-35 discussions sometime it'll probably change your mind about the program. It gets a tremendous amount of unjustified hatred from people who don't realize what an impossible balancing act it is to build cutting-edge defense aerospace products, especially one that's such a huge paradigm shift.

sametmax 9y ago
Trillion man. Nothing on earth is worth that. Nothing can justify that. The amount of good you could do with such resources compare to what is been done ? Hell even if it was a success it would still be mind boggling. No entity should be allowed to spend that much on a single project except if this project is a infinite energy reactor or world peace in a can.
- fellellor 9y ago
  I believe they already sell world peace in a can.
droithomme 9y ago
Thanks for joining HN 5 minutes ago and congrats on your first post. How did you find us?
- xor1 9y ago
  n-gate has been getting pretty popular, maybe through there?
- nyolfen 9y ago
  defense contractor doesn't want to use the account where they post about flight control software
Alupis 9y ago
> It gets a tremendous amount of unjustified hatred from people who don't realize what an impossible balancing act it is to build It's only an impossible balancing act due to the absurd requirements imposed by civilians in Congress with little-to-zero understanding of the roles current-day aircraft fulfill and why we have role-specialized vehicles in the first place. And then they let the Marines dictate requirement after requirement in an attempt to replace the Harrier... no other service wanted VTOL, yet VTOL dominated the design considerations (causing all sorts of design trade-offs), leading to the turkey known as the F-35 project. A one-size-fits-all jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none aircraft was, is, and will remain a bad idea. Not to mention there's now 2 variants of the F-35 platform (the Navy version is larger and removed the VTOL capabilities), so it's not even meeting that original design goal anyway!
nyolfen 9y ago
a huge paradigm shift that can't fly in the rain

sametmax 9y ago

Trillion man. Nothing on earth is worth that. Nothing can justify that. The amount of good you could do with such resources compare to what is been done ? Hell even if it was a success it would still be mind boggling. No entity should be allowed to spend that much on a single project except if this project is a infinite energy reactor or world peace in a can.

fellellor 9y ago
I believe they already sell world peace in a can.

droithomme 9y ago

Thanks for joining HN 5 minutes ago and congrats on your first post. How did you find us?

xor1 9y ago
n-gate has been getting pretty popular, maybe through there?
nyolfen 9y ago
defense contractor doesn't want to use the account where they post about flight control software

Alupis 9y ago

> It gets a tremendous amount of unjustified hatred from people who don't realize what an impossible balancing act it is to build It's only an impossible balancing act due to the absurd requirements imposed by civilians in Congress with little-to-zero understanding of the roles current-day aircraft fulfill and why we have role-specialized vehicles in the first place. And then they let the Marines dictate requirement after requirement in an attempt to replace the Harrier... no other service wanted VTOL, yet VTOL dominated the design considerations (causing all sorts of design trade-offs), leading to the turkey known as the F-35 project. A one-size-fits-all jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none aircraft was, is, and will remain a bad idea. Not to mention there's now 2 variants of the F-35 platform (the Navy version is larger and removed the VTOL capabilities), so it's not even meeting that original design goal anyway!

nyolfen 9y ago

a huge paradigm shift that can't fly in the rain