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..."
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..."