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Re:F-35 crashed into the carrier Carl Vinson’s deck, fell in... by m0llusk on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:41PM (#30080592)
The F-35 has not enabled any military victories, but it has consumed so much money that we could just write $64k checks to every American instead. Which option would make this nation stronger?
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Re:F-35 crashed into the carrier Carl Vinson’s deck, fell in... by credit_guy on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:56AM (#30083287)
> we could just write $64k checks to every American

Actually $51k. Over 66 years. Comes at around $780 per year. If it were paid off only by Americans. It will be used and paid for also by Brits, Australians, Israeli, Japanese and about 10 other nations.

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Re:F-35 crashed into the carrier Carl Vinson’s deck, fell in... by coolspot on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:46PM (#30080623)
F-35 research, development & maintenance employ a lot of people and move science forward.
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Re:F-35 crashed into the carrier Carl Vinson’s deck, fell in... by m0llusk on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:57PM (#30080697)
Employing people to produce a plane that does not function as intended is a good use of money? It seems like there might be superior alternatives available.

Can you point out any specific ways in which the F-35 project actually moved science forward, even indirectly?

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Re:F-35 crashed into the carrier Carl Vinson’s deck, fell in... by PraetorianGourd on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:37AM (#30082495)
Identifying underseas airplane crashes obviously
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Re:F-35 crashed into the carrier Carl Vinson’s deck, fell in... by ensan on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:56PM (#30080693)
The employment and “moving science forward” are certainly not commensurate with the money pit that is F35.

How many JWST-scale projects could be funded with that money?

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Re:F-35 crashed into the carrier Carl Vinson’s deck, fell in... by PraetorianGourd on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:36AM (#30082489)
170 is the answer. 170 JWSTs.

For more fun facts, JWST has employed 1200 people in the world, F-35 has produced around 250,000 jobs.

So F-35 has produced more jobs per dollar than JWST so from that perspective it is a steal

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Re:F-35 crashed into the carrier Carl Vinson’s deck, fell in... by mrlonglong on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:01PM (#30080338)
That's interesting, the UK Navy lost one of their F35s in the Mediterranean a few months back. Maybe there is an issue with these aircraft that they need to resolve quickly?
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Re:F-35 crashed into the carrier Carl Vinson’s deck, fell in... by hindsightbias on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:26PM (#30080502)
Back in the day (idk about now), the CAG (Commander, Air Wing), wasn’t working them hard enough if a least one a/c wasn’t lost during a deployment.

As F-35s roll out to the fleet more, expect more.

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Re:F-35 crashed into the carrier Carl Vinson’s deck, fell in... by mycall on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @09:54PM (#30081093)
Let Top Gun do the tuning?
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Re:F-35 crashed into the carrier Carl Vinson’s deck, fell in... by bathyspheric on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:03PM (#30081549)
I think that plane was lost soon after takeoff because a raincover was left on an engine. Perhaps this incident was something related to landing heavily, unless the pilot made a very quick go-around.

https://theaviationist.com/2021/11/24/f-35b-crash-cover-poss...

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Re:F-35 crashed into the carrier Carl Vinson’s deck, fell in... by djohnston on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:01PM (#30080339)
Will be interesting to learn more about what happened if it gets released. Hopefully they can learn from a $74M error.
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