Bomb plot uncovered in NY.

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Apparently the most recent F-35B crash out in SC was caused by a faulty fuel tube and all F-35s will be going through inspection of said part over the next couple of days.

*And I can already feel the fucking Vatniks posting about it.*

Yep, pretty normal. They'll do a Time-change technical order (TCTO) to inspect and/or replace whatever the part is

Yeah as of right now the entirety of the F-35 fleet has been grounded

For like a day or two by the sound of it.

Hopefully this shit is isolated.

If it isn't, it's all we're ever going to hear for probably the better part of next year.

yeah, and if its the whole fleet hopefully its just the line itself and it can be fixed relatively easily, and not an issue with a large ramification within the design

If it was a design flaw with the whole thing, we probably would have ran into the problem already.

At least this was an incident where no one got killed in the first place.

Find it funny, though.

The F-35 has only ever had two or three class A incidents at this point and it's been around for at least 10-15 years. A lot of previous aircraft would have already had plenty of class A incidents at this point.

Though it's implementation has been rather slow, to be fair.

have they seen any combat flights yet even?

RT was already going on about it by 9:30

Yea, they have. In Syria at the very least and I think they've been in Afghanistan as well.

*I think.*

Of course it's been for troop support mainly.

Both direct and in-direct.

Who thought an aircraft capable of tracking around three times the amount of targets of the F-22 (which is around 200, so thus the F-35 can track 600) would be good for surveillance and recon?

Seems it was isolated anyways. http://twitter.com/CombatAir/status/1050472030573858816

middle eastern shitholes with patchy 1960's radar would be the only place on earth an F-35 would be stealthy

can fly around with the bomb bay wide open as much as it likes

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Wow, it’s almost as if America hasn’t been involved in an all out war with an equally well armed enemy since like, hmmm. 1945 or something

I would say Korea, but that'd be being kind to the Norks and Chinks.

While "well armed" I wouldn't say they where equals like how Japan and Germany where

Well, they weren't even really all that well armed except for the very start of the war.

And even then, the only really well equipped group in combat during that war were the Stovies flying Migs.

And some of the Chinks and Norks they trained.

Reminder that the Norks are the only people that have actually mounted MANPADS on their tanks to tell helos to go fuck themselves.

>Int check
>20

>having to use a MANPAD because you cant hit the helo with your main gun

Nork MANPADs are the equivalent of off hand shooting a pistol in the general direction of someone to tell them to fuck off

Actually it's a FIM-92 equivalent but okay.

It's on this ghetto little remote mount on the side of the turret, two Stinger-equivalent MANPADS duct taped together because F&F is OP.

Cheap shit zero-overhead upgrade that requires almost no additional effort or maintenance, no billion dollar boondoggle upgrade programs, and can be easily upgraded to modern standards by just slapping a new MANPAD on the mount

And it makes EVERY TANK a threat to CAS aircraft and helos.

Even outdated T-55s and T-64s