Declassified Pentagon F-35 Study Details Reliability, Security Woes for America’s Costliest Weapon
www.bnnbloomberg.ca
A declassified Pentagon comprehensive test report of Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 warplane, America’s most expensive weapons system, reveals that six years of combat testing has been marred by reliability and maintenance delays, guns that don’t shoot straight and unresolved concerns about cyber defense capabilities.

https://archive.ph/t4NCD

  • GaryLeChat@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 hours ago

    Good thing Canada wants to buy a bunch, basically a parallel upgrade for the constantly breaking down F/18 jets 😂

    (I do not condone the purchase, just think it's funny in a sad waste of money way)

  • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 hours ago

    In the meantime China added insult to injury developing Shenyang J-35 which both looks and is named incredibly similar to F-35, but it actually works good enough that PLAN will most likely order some for their carriers.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 hours ago

      It's worth keeping in mind that while F35 is an absolute failure as a weapon, it's been a stellar success at doing what it's actually meant to do, which is to soak up as much tax money as humanly possible.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        8 hours ago

        Exactly, and it's only a tip of the iceberg that got spilled up because they went too openly greedy with it.

        Also it remind me when Poland constructed a bog standard corvette, but it ended up taking 19 years, costed so much you could buy 3 comparable corvettes in German shipyard and was ultimately finished as huge but barely armed patrol boat.

  • propter_hog [any, any]
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    20 hours ago

    Calling it America's flying cybertruck is the best and most accurate dig ever thrown at this project

  • sexywheat [none/use name]
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    19 hours ago

    “The Trump administration should bear in mind we’ve been flying the F-35 for 18 years and we still can’t maintain it, keep its stealth skin intact or shoot its gun straight,” Williams said in a statement.

    Lol. Lmao.

    • Hexboare [they/them]
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      4 hours ago

      keep its stealth skin intact

      Did they ever fix the B2'a stealth coating being rinsed off by rain?

    • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
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      16 hours ago

      I once worked with a lady who's husband did maintenance work on f-35s or something like that. I commented that he probably has his hands full just keeping them from falling apart. She was confused and said they're actually really solid and reliable... I still don't believe her.

  • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]
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    20 hours ago

    I remember being a kid born in burgerland and thinking that the F35 was the coolest shit ever.

    Finding it out to be garbage is a pretty good metaphor for my radicalization journey and current view of the US