Fuck their retarded helmet that doesn't work half the time and their fucked built-in logistics bullshit that cripples the whole thing when it (often) fails.

"HELMET BROKE, MAYDAY, LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO OPERATE THE AIRCRAFT NOW, MAYDAY!"

That's like Death Star levels of oversight.

"Yeah there's this one fatal flaw to our superweapon, only have to hit it with a torpedo ONCE and it self-destructs."
-Joint Strike Fighter group

I kinda feel like you don't like that plane at all

@Ondsinet lol no one likes the plane

that seems like a broad generalization

do you have some polls?

have you interviewed the regular Joe on the street about the plane?

No, but I've never heard anyone say something positive, and I've spoken to a couple of people who have been involved with the maintenance

It is literally a failure on every level.

It's the old adage of "design by committee"

Reports I've read state that it underperforms on ACTUALLY EVERYTHING.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/air-force-pilot-why-f-35-so-deadly-i-can-look-through-airplane-and-see-ground-below-me

I'm just parodizing Vee don't worry

Right, It's a "jack of all trades, master of none"

I don't mind about the plane

They went insane with the 'multi-role fighter' concept.

Both the 22 and 35 are so bad at dogfighting, that we have to keep the F15 around just to fill that potential role

Ah just like the Phantom from the Luftwaffe, how to get one? Buy a big field and wait for one to crash

22 wasn't bad

No, it's not bad at all

But it's not a fighter jet

It's a stealth fighter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR8kjzkpR2M

Yes

For interception, even Eielson Air Base still keeps F15s in case the Russians get froggy

F-16 was my favorite as kid

Which they always do

Literally like once a month lol

Y'all have no idea how often the Russians cross into Alaskan airspace

Remember that sim, F-16 Fighting Falcon? Or whatever? That had a manual the size of a bible?

Yuss

Micropose?

Jesus I could barely not kill myself in that

Of course I don't have HOTAS so

oh I had that, or rather my dad, never got into it, but I like Aces of the Pacific

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkIG8Iuzsdo

@Holy Intersectional Inquisition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gz7s6kli1g

ah would have loved that

That was my shit lol