The American Air Force is fucking shit lmao

  • CamaradaD
    27·
    2 years ago

    I have to say, it’s amazing: First, they discover it’s a submarine. Now it’s a suicide drone.

    This is truly a wonderful piece of technology! XD

  • Shaggy0291
    24·
    2 years ago

    I said it once, I’ll sat it again; the F35 exists simply because it represents a $1.5 trillion dollar slice of the Pentagon’s budget. To bin it off now would cause a crisis to ripple throughout the American MIC, as contractors are dependent on the revenues this faulty fighter jet brings in.

    • knfrmity
      27·
      2 years ago

      Precisely. Projects like this aren’t fuckups, they’re everything working as intended. The goal isn’t to have a fighter jet, it’s to make a couple people richer.

      • lxvi
        16·
        2 years ago

        Until the rest of the world realize the US military is just expensive theater

        • Shrike502
          17·
          2 years ago

          Expensive theater with nukes. I’d prefer not to test if those are rusted and disfunctional via live fire

          • CamaradaD
            8·
            2 years ago

            Furthermore, they did display good industrial capability when the situation demanded it in WWII. However, the US doesn’t have the same industrial capabilities nowadays - still, underestimating someone is never the best way to go. If anything, it’s better to overestimate the enemy one might face: It’ll make any victory look like a breeze.

        • knfrmity
          4·
          2 years ago

          I wouldn’t say it so clearly, but that’s a way of putting it.

          In a sentence I would say that the F-35 project was designed to enrich military contractors, and if a fighter jet came out at the end that would be a nice bonus.

          In my view it’s like a lot of huge government contracts. It takes ages to get that type of funding through congress, so one of the strategies the owners of these companies fall back to is geographical separation between elements of the project. This increases overall time and costs (distance and communication issues between branches and companies at minimum), but it also makes such a project in the direct interest of more congressional representatives and senators (investment and jobs in their district, to say nothing about bribes campaign donations). These contracts are awarded on a cost-plus basis, where the contractor bills for whatever they claim their cost is, and the government agency pays that cost plus a nominal amount of profit on top. So it’s in the interest of the contractor to drag their heels and make some mistakes. Based on these two structures alone such massive projects (F-35, Space Shuttle, SLS all come to my mind) are destined to be expensive, take a long time, and probably not deliver the expected quality, but they always enrich the owners of the companies involved.

  • loathsome dongeaterA
    23·
    2 years ago

    In the F35 Lockheed Martin have made an excellent submarine but folks keep trying to fly it for some reason

  • carpe_modo
    20·
    2 years ago

    I remember pretty early in the development when footage of a vertical takeoff got leaked where it went maybe 30 feet in the air before it just dropped back down. They remain true to their legacy.

    • JucheBot1988
      8·
      2 years ago

      So… worked about as well as some of the Wright Brothers’ very earliest attempts. How American.

      • Shrike502
        13·
        2 years ago

        Apparently I used a wrong designation, apologies for misleading. I meant Yak-141, it is a late Soviet VTOL jet, designed for use on the carrier-cruisers (USSR never invested in dedicated aircraft carriers the way USA did, due to different strategies and policies)

      • Munrock ☭
        13·
        2 years ago

        It’s like an F-35 without some of the features (submarine mode, surprise landings, etc)