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Critical mass is arriving.
The UK goes from 138 to 48? The Netherlands are buying a paltry 37? The Italians are going from over 100 down to 90 odd and are considering going even lower.... And you say the death spiral isn't here? You must be smoking stuff that was once considered illegal in all 50 states.
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Col Pietrucha told The Sunday Telegraph: “All fighter programmes have developed problems. This one is particularly troubling, not necessarily because the aircraft is inherently bad, but because … they are being bought before they have been proven. They have not been tested outside a computer simulation.”&
Britain originally said it would buy 138 of the fighters, but has now committed itself to only 48 of the jump jet variant, spread between the RAF and Navy. The first are due to enter service in 2018.
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter being built for British and US forces is based on outdated ideas of air warfare, it is claimed. The aircraft could be unable to evade enemy radar and be too expensive for long campaigns.Yep.
The critique in the US Air Force’s own journal concludes that the new fighter may even have “substantially less performance” than some existing aircraft.
Critical mass is arriving.
The UK goes from 138 to 48? The Netherlands are buying a paltry 37? The Italians are going from over 100 down to 90 odd and are considering going even lower.... And you say the death spiral isn't here? You must be smoking stuff that was once considered illegal in all 50 states.
