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Re:The F-35 Is a $1.4T National Disaster (2017) by mieseratte on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @04:03PM (#16870657)
> American jets need a shiny aircraft carrier and a coin can mess them up.

Marine variants are VTOL, USAF operates no carriers. As for the coin story, I'm sure you're confusing A) carrier FOD sweeps, which are because small debris traveling at high-speed will cause serious damage or B) one of those stories about some old Chinese woman throwing coins into a jet engine and causing a major delay and extrapolating from there.

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Re:The F-35 Is a $1.4T National Disaster (2017) by blarg1 on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @06:00PM (#16871628)
there's a documentary I forget where that shows a russia jet closing their front of intakes and opening the top of them at take off, preventing debris on the runway from being sucked in.
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Re:The F-35 Is a $1.4T National Disaster (2017) by dingaling on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @06:10PM (#16871694)
That was on the early versions of the MiG-29.

The latest 29M and K models eliminated the intake plates and over-wing louvres in favour of simpler swing-down intake grilles. That saved a lot of weight and drag and gave extra volume for fuel.

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