These lemon-flavored memes got grounded and finally the Pentagon cleared some of them back into the service.
>Pentagon grounds Lockheed Martin's F-35 jets after South Carolina crash
>The suspension was spurred by a crash last month in Beaufort, South Carolina, in which a then-unknown fault in one of Lockheed Martin's F-35B jets forced its pilot to eject from the cockpit. >The incident, which marked the first crash of an F-35 since the fifth-generation aircraft became operational in 2006, adds to the challenges facing the U.S. military's most expensive weapons system.
Love the last part... "operational in 2006"... kek;d hard.... """"operational"""".
Many are still grounded. Still useless. Still a MULTI-TRILLION DOLLAR BOONDOGLE.
soyuz rocket is grounded after a crash now, too so whats your point
Lucas Campbell
>MUH RUSSIANNNS! kek'd. Muttniks always blame russians for everything.
Dominic Mitchell
Nobody blamed Russians for anything here. He just pointed out that Russian shit also breaks. You just want to shitpost and the shitpost you gave didn't match up with the post you responded to.
Ethan Rogers
gosh, i had not thought of that. perhaps it was the american that crashed the russian rocket he was riding on! go home ivan, you're drunk
Jason Moore
>""""operational"""" Only one set of quotation marks is necessary. Adding so many extras makes you look rtetarded.
Hunter White
How many are grounded right now?
Jason Allen
bitching about quotations makes you look immensely butthurt.
Josiah James
kek
Cameron Thompson
This is some low energy trolling Boris, better work harder if you want to earn that potato.
This is only an argument that's made by people who are completely out of touch with engineering and development that their opinion is the literal opposite of reality.
In my previous job I worked on the development of kitchen appliances (really simple coffee-type machines) and it took us almost 8 months of tests and changes to get it working to be able to launch it. After the launch there will be more changes, maybe some emergency fixes and so on, until it works fully as intended. 8 months on testing and fixing a fucking kitchen appliance, with a whole team of engineers working on the project.
Combat aircraft are orders of magnitude more complicated. You can't just build over-sized parts to be safe. You're at the limits of technology. The assembly is massively complex and so on. Yet it doesn't look half as retarded as our fucking kitchen appliance development.
My point is that if all development phases were made public to you braindead morons, you'd be wondering how aircraft have ever managed to fly in the first place. You wouldn't be laughing at the F-35, you'd be laughing at some much worse projects wondering what the fuck they were thinking. You'd be amazed that your car doesn't break down everytime you even try to use it.
Aiden Ortiz
>no other jet has had issues requiring grounding >Pratt & Whitney engine defect = Lockheed’s fault >muh trillion dollar meme >what is contract lifetime cost >cheapest modern jet, both per-unit and to actually fly
Weak b8
Joshua Price
>first crash since operational That's fucking remarkably impressive.
Gabriel Wright
>These lemon-flavored memes got grounded and finally the Pentagon cleared some of them back into the service. DAILY REMINDER: While vatniks were screeching about the whole fleet being grounded and how big this is of a thing in the first thread, there were F-35 already flying for 12 hours.
Literally 10x better than early F-16 record. But of course retards will ignore that.
William Cook
>year 2006 >the ultimate next gen fighter aircraft is operational >"wow! soon real life is gonna be like a scifi movie with these awesome stealth jets in service" >12 years later
You'll have to wait until 2026 before they become useful.
Angel Miller
F-35 has been more or less operational since 2013, it's when main pilot training program started. Immediately after that, accidents become to accumulate for the plane. And the problem is not that it did crash, out of 4400 F-16 produced 650 crashed by now, the problem is that airforces grounded the plane after crash which mean they are still unsure about it.
Easton Cruz
Unfortunately people are retarded and spew shit for the sake of spewing shit. All things considered the F-35 procurement has been pretty damn good overall. The F-16/F-15 and many other major procurement programs were riddled with problems and the F-16 was called a fucking lawn dart for a while because it kept crashing. Now it's considered the most prolific and reliable modern fighter in history.
I blame the 24/hr news cycles with retarded MSM talking points, and the internet for giving people with shit opinions a platform to make their shit opinion visible to the rest of us.
I think there's another more subtle factor: everyone wants it to fail.
Basically Americans have a tendency to distrust their government, which means they'll believe any claim of their taxes being wasted.
A lot of foreign countries want it to fail, so now you have both sides spouting the same crap.
The rest of the media will just recycle US articles and their shit opinion.
So you end up with F-35 hate all over the place, without many alternatives for information even if you try to look it up a bit. Of course, retards here have had everything explained to them so they have no excuse.
Cooper Carter
>Not www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2M7QwHnVXQ Do you even 80s?
>All things considered the F-35 procurement has been pretty damn good overall. At this point it's going fucking insane. The price of the F-35A is pissing distance from the price of a new Super Bug. Block 3F is in and done, most Block 3 aircraft are either being upgraded or are already 3F. EO-DAS is nuts. APG-81s is nuts. 9X Block 3 is in. 120D is in. If SDB-II isn't already in it's coming in a month or two. More than 300 have been delivered as of several months ago. And the maintainers seem to fucking love the thing. Apparently it's a joy to work on and all the access panels are actually where a maintainer would fucking want them to be and it doesn't take hours of fucking with rivets to get them off (looking at you, A-10).
The 35 is on it's way to being the Viper of the 21st century.
