OH, NO!
DO NOT BUY IT!
Remember the Bomarc!
A good article explaining what a peice of crap the F35 is.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/...ram.html?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral
An important measure of the cost, sustainability and value of the new jet is its total operating cost. In 2018, flying an F-35A cost about $44,000 per hour on average — about double the cost of operating the Navy’s Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. Some of the military’s top officials, including Gen. Dave Goldfein, the Air Force’s chief of staff, and former Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, have complained that it is too expensive to fly and maintain the F-35, raising the possibility that the service may have to buy fewer of them if costs don’t shrink.
In 2018, Goldfein called the F-35 “a computer that happens to fly” — a popular characterization among F-35 advocates, highlighting the plane’s ability to collect and analyze data in order to knock out enemy planes and missiles. But as China develops its own stealth fighters and pumps government money into research on supercomputing and artificial intelligence, the Pentagon is wondering how it can continue to give F-35 technology a competitive edge against America’s adversaries.
One solution favored by Winter during his recent tenure was so-called agile software development. His vision for “continuous capability development and delivery” resembles DevOps, a popular method in the private sector for quickly testing and evaluating features for new products. Coders generate software upgrades or patches in a matter of days or weeks, pass them along to users to test and then push out the update more widely if the changes are successful. That speed would be a major improvement on the months, or in some cases a year or more, that it can take defense contractors to deliver a software patch right now.
Winter also made it a priority to push for drastic streamlining in the process for testing new software in the F-35. Under the existing procedures, the Pentagon can require test flights for more than 300 different factors or functions when a new software load is installed. Winter worked to cut that down to a single validation flight, to test just the software and the systems it affects, rather than retesting the performance of the whole aircraft. A trial program staffed with a team of Air Force and Lockheed coders proved that the method works and doesn’t put pilots at risk, and Winter’s rapid software development strategy is now being implemented. But moving to an agile software approach for the F-35 presents a huge challenge for the sluggish and bureaucratic military acquisition system, and there’s no blueprint for how to integrate it alongside the traditional processes for developing and testing hardware.
As with all stories involving the tangled web that is the Pentagon bureaucracy, it’s tempting to try to look for a hidden root behind all the problems — greedy corporate executives, corrupt generals, the military-industrial complex itself. But those closest to the F-35 program, the engineers, software developers and midlevel managers, express the same things over and over. Frustration that the tremendous scope of the program keeps them from being able to do more to fix it; and a wounded sense of pride for the impressive technological advances they have achieved, but that often seem lost in the intractable tangle of complications and setbacks.
"REMEMBER THE BOMARK" wails the SOVIET IMBECILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For those who dont know...............................................
NUT Zone Doug is referring to an early anti missile defense system from the 1950`s.......................................
that was given CHEAP to Canada..........................................
IN PART.................................................
as a consolation prize for canceling the Arrow fighter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was the usual Cdn military CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Arrow was a stunning technical leap forward....................................
capable of CRUISING at speeds faster that the TOP SPEED of the latest Yankee fighter of the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But as with any new weapon there were cost over runs and technical issues with the engines and its all the standard headaches when
some thing so radical and new is developed.................................................
so Cdn govt got cold feet and canceled the Arrow......................................
in part over cost and in part because they were MORE AFRAID of Soviet missiles anyway..............................
hence the "gift" of Bomark missiles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Due to the complete lack of computerized controls- the world was still using fragile vacuum tubes.........................
the idea was the Bomarks would each carry a small tactical nuclear warhead.........
with the missile being fired in the general direction of incoming Soviet missiles......................................
and the Bomark blasts would be big enough to knock down or disable the Soviet weapons..........................................
even though the Bomark accuracy was not so good - due to the lack computers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Planting those Bomark missiles in the Cdn north meant that if there ever was a nuclear exchange...........................
the Bomarks would explode out over the Beaufort Sea...................................
INSTEAD OF OVER CENTRAL CANADA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If the Bomarks had been based in mainland United States...............................................
then there would have been a LONGER FLIGHT TIME allowed to the Soviet missiles......................................
and there would be MORE CDN CASUALTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The tactical warheads carried by the Bomarks were MUCH SMALLER...............................
than the warheads on Soviet missiles...............................
so using the small Bomarks to break up and disable Soviet weapons BEFORE they reached their target and exploded......................
would ACTUALLY REDUCE the amount of radiation people were exposed to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals were appalled at the prospect of nuclear weapons in Canada...............................
FOR ANY REASON at all.....................................
even for defense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals focused only on the concept of nuclear weapons in the pure innocent hand of Cdns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And never looked at the MASSIVE ARRAY of Soviet weapons set to CRUSH all North American cities!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So the Bomarks were rendered virtually USELESS by having conventional explosive warheads attached..............................
with Yankees STORING the nuclear warheads close to the border....................................................
ready to be swiftly attached if war came!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And with Washington HOPING there would be time to attach the nuclear warheads.....................................
BEFORE the Soviet missiles started showing on the radar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The UGLY TRUTH IS that just because you dont have nuclear weapons................................................
you cannot insure against DYING as a result of nuclear weapons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is why the North Korean, the Iranian and the RED CHINESE nuclear programs are so VILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those three DICTATORSHIPS want to threaten and bully and bluster..................................
and maybe some day actually LAUNCH a nuclear strike...........................................
if we do not surrender to their BLACKMAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALL DICTATORS have the same play book........................................
and they ALL start out with the standard crap about "dont worry, trust me, I wont hurt you"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nut Zone Doug and his Soviet Allies want to see the F35 SCRAPPED..........................................
for the same reason dictators ALWAYS oppose the west having any weapons at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The dictators ALL want to deal with a western govt like that of poor DELUDED Brit PM Neville Chamberlain........................
who sold out Czechoslovakia AND BRITAIN to Hitler.................................
for a brief euphoric months of "Peace in Our time"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!