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F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash (www.cnn.com)
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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The F-35 is a pile of shit. Lockheed ripped of the american taxpayers.

[–] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is it that bad?

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago
  • Not correctly designed to do what it needed to do.

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/lockheed-claims-tailhook-fix-will-allow-f35s-to-land-on-aircraft-carriers/

  • Took forever to deliver

  • Bad design all around.

  • Massively over budget

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-106047

Just for the F-35c, a single engine design for a carrier is dumb as fuck! I spent a lot of time dealing with these planes.

[–] chocrates@piefed.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't it just a multi role fighter and we are cramming too many functions into a single fighter design?

Tbh it doesn't make sense to me. Any dedicated fighter seems like it will just be better

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Multi anything is always multi shit. A dedicated FA18 Super Hornet is better then this garbage.