Oh and Serenity... You, a USN pilot, telling me that US pilots can't speak their minds... And you say this in a thread on a forum open to the public where you bash the F-35... Must be some kind of record in irony...
No, it's not. The radar fails readily, the bays overheat, the doors can't be opened at cruise speed, the gun can't be fired due to software oversights... If the project was at least on time or budget, it could be tolerated, but everything about this program has failed so far.
We would be better off cancelling the F-35 and upgrading the F-22, or skipping any further Gen 5 stuff and going direct to Gen 6 (supplementing with more legacy fighters). There is not a single adversary that we can't match at this point with what we have. Even if the time difference is 20 years before the Gen 6 arrives, we'd be better off without the F-35.
Your delusional love affair with this piece of junk is the record...
Even if that were true, how would it be ironic? I don't think that word means what you think it means...
Come again?
I'm not speaking here as a representative of the Navy, in uniform, or presenting myself as a government official. Nor am I in front of cameras conducting interviews. Although I'm not surprised you don't understand the difference between the two situations.
Then show me an anonymous F-35 pilot posting negatively about the F-35 on some public forum like you are doing here. I think you'll be hard pressed to find it because I don't believe it exists.
Nope. Contract bound to eight nations. Just let it go.
