I mean I’m sure the $400 billion dollars spent on designing the thing must have created something useful and wasn’t just used to line the pockets of executives at Lockheed Martin, right?
It’s definitely amazing at funneling money into the MIC. The number of crashes and lost planes make me think it isn’t great, but being more of a train person I’ll admit I don’t know much about planes. Not to mention I’ve heard the carrier version has real problems with salt water degrading the stealth coating, but when has salt water been a problem on the ocean, right?
The PLA is reverse engineering it as we speak to learn what not to do when designing planes.
I mean I’m sure the $400 billion dollars spent on designing the thing must have created something useful and wasn’t just used to line the pockets of executives at Lockheed Martin, right?
The F-35 is genuinely an amazing airplane, even if the American MIC is one of, if not the most, evil organisations on the planet.
It has many groundbreaking capabilities like the ability to turn off its transponder and fly itself directly to hainan
It’s definitely amazing at funneling money into the MIC. The number of crashes and lost planes make me think it isn’t great, but being more of a train person I’ll admit I don’t know much about planes. Not to mention I’ve heard the carrier version has real problems with salt water degrading the stealth coating, but when has salt water been a problem on the ocean, right?