Yep. F-35 critics can't handle the truth....
via AOL. Read the whole thing but here are the good bits....
Admiral Venlet: We live in world that has J-20's and PAK-FA's who gonna defeat them?
Sweetman: Did you order the F-35B?
Lockheed Martin: You don't have to answer that Admiral!
Sweetman: I think I'm entitled to an answer!
Lockheed Martin: We'll wait for the answer!
Sweetman: Did you order the F-35B's?
Admiral Venlet: YOU DAMN RIGHT WE DID!
JUST JOKING BILL! LIGHTEN UP DUDE!
via AOL. Read the whole thing but here are the good bits....
The program executive officer for the problem-plagued F-35 said Thursday he has "great confidence" the multi-service fighter can deliver the oft-promised stealth and the sophisticated package of sensors.and this...
Vice Adm. David Venlet said he has "measured data" to show that.
"If we stick with the fundamentals, stay with reality, I'm very positive about this program," Venlet said.Below we'll paraphrase the above scene. The person speaking is in bold lettering:
Admiral Venlet: We live in world that has J-20's and PAK-FA's who gonna defeat them?
You BAE?
You Boeing?
You weep for the Rafale and you curse the Marine's STOVL figher.
The F-35B's existence while grotesque and incomprehensible to you saves lives.
Deep down inside places you don't talk about at parties, you know you want the F-35 at 40,000 feet, you need the F-35 at 40,000 feet.
The Lockheed Martin team and the USMC would rather you say thank you and you went on your way.
Either way we don't care what the critics think they're entitled to.
Sweetman: Did you order the F-35B?
Lockheed Martin: You don't have to answer that Admiral!
Sweetman: I think I'm entitled to an answer!
Sweetman: Did you order the F-35B's?
Admiral Venlet: YOU DAMN RIGHT WE DID!
JUST JOKING BILL! LIGHTEN UP DUDE!
i think most people miss the point of the F35, its one of the most ambitious military projects of all time and is literally creating MANY new technologies needed for the future all at the same time trying to prepare for its deployment. I dont worry about bugs in the system, nor failures of the planes if it happens (please dont get me wrong, i dont want to see any pilots hurt at all), but failure is part of the learning process, and will only make the weapons better. Remember the P51 mustang, it sucked until we worked with the British to install their Merlin engine, which was one of the few clear decisive turning points in military aviation. they didnt get it right the first time but it didnt matter, we got it right in the end. We are spending vast amounts of money, but thats what taxes are for and i know people hate taxes but you must pay at times for the privileges of living in a free nation (i am not making any political statements about domestic use of tax money or anything). i dont see what the fuss about the F35 is about, clearly there are people so myopically focused on its failure they arent thinking of the big strategic picture. i rather make a few mistakes now then see our children s generation having to play catchup to Russia, too many people have given their lives for security, we cant give it up now. Failure will only teach us how to do it right. There have been some very bad decisions made in the program office and alot of it probably to down politics and bullshit, but we are getting an unmatched weapons platform that will defend our shores and those of our allies for 30+ years, well work the investment to me.
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