The pilot of a US F-35 jet ejected as his jet crashed on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier in the South China Sea injuring seven, the US Pacific Fleet said in a statement Monday.
It's a piece of shit plane. It's capitalism collapsing in on itself.
Instead of engineering a plane to fly good or shoot good, Lockheed Martin deliberately engineered a plane with parts that required specialized manufacturers in specific congressional districts. This helped them win the contract.
And it's a piece of shit. They also promised that there would be slightly different versions for different branches of the military, but that just made it a bigger piece of shit, because parts of it have to be modular or whatever.
"What do you mean developing a plane to be both an air superiority fighter and a close air support isn't a good idea? Specializ-what now? But think of how cool it'll look when your VTOL carrier plane gets retrofitted to drop paratroopers (Editor's Note: Retrofitting between roles takes 3-6 business weeks and requires a Lockheed Martin:tm: proprietary aircraft hangar, only available in Arizona.)!"
Instead of engineering a plane to fly good or shoot good, Lockheed Martin deliberately engineered a plane with parts that required specialized manufacturers in specific congressional districts.
1930s Germany: "We use eighteen different kinds of ball-bearings to build and maintain our tank battalions."
2020s America: "You are like a little baby. Watch this..."
Im pretty sure the Osprey crashes more but the f-35 has a bunch of other things that could make it crash or could kill the pilots that restrict its use. They can't fly in the rain because they aren't lightning proof and will attract lightning strikes to the fuel tanks, they had too much stuff in the cockpit to make them useful for flying at night, and flying upside down causes problems to a lot of their internals. The ejection seat also has a coin toss to kill the pilot by snapping their neck (I could not find a pilot being decapitated though I know that was the meme).
There is also more that makes it an even more expensive boondoggle but those aren't parts that are crashing the plane (yet, they probably would in combat).
Guilty as charged. When describing why the military should cancel the program to libs I would say it had a chance of decapitation instead of internal decapitation.
The Osprey is the most dangerous aircraft operated in the world right now. It's less likely to successfully land than this thing.
decapitation
It hasn't happened, not even in this case which included a pilot ejection. I think it was floated as a possibility based on how heavy the glorified VR headset/helmet is.
the latter. everyone here is propaganda understander until they see an article about an f35 that doesn't even specify the reason for the crash. if this were an f-18 or something there wouldn't have been an article in the first place.
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It's a piece of shit plane. It's capitalism collapsing in on itself.
Instead of engineering a plane to fly good or shoot good, Lockheed Martin deliberately engineered a plane with parts that required specialized manufacturers in specific congressional districts. This helped them win the contract.
And it's a piece of shit. They also promised that there would be slightly different versions for different branches of the military, but that just made it a bigger piece of shit, because parts of it have to be modular or whatever.
"What do you mean developing a plane to be both an air superiority fighter and a close air support isn't a good idea? Specializ-what now? But think of how cool it'll look when your VTOL carrier plane gets retrofitted to drop paratroopers (Editor's Note: Retrofitting between roles takes 3-6 business weeks and requires a Lockheed Martin:tm: proprietary aircraft hangar, only available in Arizona.)!"
1930s Germany: "We use eighteen different kinds of ball-bearings to build and maintain our tank battalions."
2020s America: "You are like a little baby. Watch this..."
Im pretty sure the Osprey crashes more but the f-35 has a bunch of other things that could make it crash or could kill the pilots that restrict its use. They can't fly in the rain because they aren't lightning proof and will attract lightning strikes to the fuel tanks, they had too much stuff in the cockpit to make them useful for flying at night, and flying upside down causes problems to a lot of their internals. The ejection seat also has a coin toss to kill the pilot by snapping their neck (I could not find a pilot being decapitated though I know that was the meme).
There is also more that makes it an even more expensive boondoggle but those aren't parts that are crashing the plane (yet, they probably would in combat).
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Guilty as charged. When describing why the military should cancel the program to libs I would say it had a chance of decapitation instead of internal decapitation.
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Wow what a piece of shit
The Osprey is the most dangerous aircraft operated in the world right now. It's less likely to successfully land than this thing.
It hasn't happened, not even in this case which included a pilot ejection. I think it was floated as a possibility based on how heavy the glorified VR headset/helmet is.
I would be scared shitless by that thing you linked.
the latter. everyone here is propaganda understander until they see an article about an f35 that doesn't even specify the reason for the crash. if this were an f-18 or something there wouldn't have been an article in the first place.
You're right.
But fuck that stupid expensive plane though.
i mean it's good at killing other planes but yeah obviously the money should have gone to healthcare or something
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