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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
capitalist efficiency in action :)