French claim:
> Four years into their operational career, F-35 fighters are expected to require between 41.75 and 50.1 maintenance man-hours (MMH) per flight hours, or about three times as many as most fighter aircraft currently operated by Western air forces.
How is this acceptable? This is fucking insane. Also, F-35 can't fly when it rains.
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So it's basically every claim that every modern aircraft has been accused of?
Legit, why can't Americans just produce good planes?
Source for the last claim?
Undefeated baby!
>French claim
Why should a claim from a country with an innate bias against the F-35 be taken seriously?
Fair point.
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Yeah thought so. Sounded like total bullshit.
That's all these threads are anymore. They post unsubstantiated or old claims, provide no proof. Then when confronted with the evidence that they are wrong they will say "can't turn, fly, etc etc all the other things that have been proven wrong time and time again.
Still fun though
Paint doesn't deal well with water. The plane in that pic probably needed half a dozen coats of the new paint.
F-35 can't take cold either.
It's sad when i shot down someone in a lobby yesterday flying that when i was flying pic related as i won the match and received hatemails from him.
Good time.
kek
Additional lightning protection isn't anything too crazy. F-35 hate is pathalogical at this point.
Nigger, the Norwegians alone did extensive cold weather testing and it was fine. Read a book.
Yeah, I'm sure this is a complete honest claim from a country who's own plane is competing against ours in a bunch of foreign markets at the moment and who has also never operated the type
Meanwhile the UK launched 96 F-35 missions clocking up 225 hours of flying with 90% serviceability for 6 aircraft during a 4 week (672 hour) exercise/deployment, and only ever had to scrub one of those 96 missions.
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The same 6 aircraft have now moved on from Cyprus to Italy to do a bilateral exercise with 32° Stormo and USAF F-35s
not to mention the F-35 is cheaper than the Rafale so it make them seethe
>Frogs complain about the F-35
>Frogs offer the Rafale as a “competitor”
>The F-35’s biggest critic is named “Pierre”
hmmmm
>vidja is real life
ok nigger
>The F-35’s biggest critic is named “Pierre”
I always knew Sprey was a French spy.
lockmart shill pls go
Currently fucking a girl whose BF is an F-35 pilot. AMA.
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Whats it like flying an A-10?
How is that impressive when the only game where an F-4 vs F-35 could happen is Ace Combat?
so the same a the F14?
yeah if we remove all the missiles that came from the ground right?
>The French are bitching about something that nobody else seems to have a problem with
Checks out.
Makes sense.
Wasp user here.
OP's last claim is full of shit, at least for the Marine variant.
Can't speak for the AF version, but the carrier model is likely also okay with water considering...sea spray. It's a thing.
Well yeah, that is kinda how air-to-air kill counts work
Still no shoot downs of the A2A models of the F-15. The only aircraft that have been lost to SAMs have been F-15Es.
Fuck it's so true...
Like riding a bike with an erection.
biggest
whores
ever
running in circles against third worlders flying with a J7
> Also, F-35 can't fly when it rains.
Pathetic. Do Americans think that they will fight only in sunny days?
>a team of 25 men take about 2 hours each to work on a plane per hour of flight time
this seems reasonable
Brutal.
Good thing F35's aren't painted then.