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My favorite F35 hack: just buy whatever the latest out of Sukhoi is. It will be cheaper and work better, and we can afford more of them than the Russians can.
by scottlocklin 8y ago
My favorite F35 hack: just buy whatever the latest out of Sukhoi is. It will be cheaper and work better, and we can afford more of them than the Russians can.
Hey, we do it for everything else!
- Scramblejams 8y agoYou're in good company. US Navy Rear Admiral Paul Gillcrist (Ret) had the same idea as you: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/695515/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/695515/posts
- strictnein 8y agoPerfect plan, if you want a good plane for target practice for the F-22 and F-35. Or if you need to test your radar systems against something and you can't find a Piper Cub. https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/stealth-aircraft-rcs.htm https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/stealth-aircra...
- scottlocklin 8y agoHas the US ever managed to shoot down even an old Su-27? Guessing the answer is no. F22 might do it. F35, only in a beyond visual situation. Remember in Vietnam when the doctrine was that missiles were so good all combat would happen BVR? Yeah, it's not gonna happen now either.
- strictnein 8y agoAre you serious right now? An F-22 "might" take out an Su-27? And the F-35 just simply wouldn't? This isn't 1968. That was 50 years ago. Things have changed ever so slightly. Your knowledge of things seems to extend little past lines in Top Gun.
- scottlocklin 8y agoI've written extensively on the topic, under my real name even. Pierre Sprey, one of the fighter mafia guys who came up with our Gen-4 fighters agrees with me. Who are you?