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Pentagon’s big budget F-35 fighter ‘can’t turn, can’t climb, can’t run’
Reminiscent of the multi-service F4 Phantom the F-35 is overweight, underpowered. slow and sluggish. It's also expensive and apparently asks too much from its single engine. (blogs.reuters.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
The old saw that "a camel is a horse designed by committee" comes to mind. I'm not close enough to know who to believe on this one but the cost overruns and numerous groundings gives me pause concerning building one airplane for all missions. That having been said, it's still amazing to me how much freight old Learjets have hauled around and they certainly weren't designed for that. I also believe some of this one source deal rests on the old and venerable Lockheed name and some of the historic products they produced. But Kelly ain't there anymore, and ask any ex German Air Force pilot what he thought about the F-104 and you probably won't need to speak German to recognize foul language.
I think Obama killed the wrong plane! They should have kept the FA-22 Raptor, and killed this turkey!
LOL, you must be republican or conservative, the F-22 was canceled by the senate not the president, with a vote of 58-40.
No need for insults :LOL: Democrat all the way, yes the Denate ultimately killed it, but it was at the behest of the Secretary of Defense Gates, who lobbied against it and Obama who said he would veto the defense bill if included funding for more F-22's.
Glad they kia'd that one too. Shoulda done in the Osprey!
A lemmon is a lemmon, a dog is a dog, a powerful lobbying can make it look like a throughbred of the sky. And us taxpayers keep on lining the pockets of them military contractors with a lot of dough.
The same thing happened with the TFX 50 years ago. Multimission also aand it was canceled