Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
by belter on Thursday May 12, 2022 @11:26AM
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I am familiar with article you posted and others that, as I mentioned before, argue the F-35 did not have the latest software. Mostly the argument has always been, it does not matter because in modern air combat dogfight don't happen anymore. The fight in Ukraine is showing exactly the opposite.
The article you posted was written as a first person account, by a non military Pilot, ex-FoxNews reporter, ex-CNN reporter, ex-Pentagon procurement expert. I quoted the actual F-35 pilot involved in the dogfight with the F-16.
The overall F-35 program is bigger than the PIB of some countries, so from the beginning when the bad news started to come up, there was a strong incentive to
present the program on a certain way.
The article you posted was written as a first person account, by a non military Pilot, ex-FoxNews reporter, ex-CNN reporter, ex-Pentagon procurement expert. I quoted the actual F-35 pilot involved in the dogfight with the F-16.
The overall F-35 program is bigger than the PIB of some countries, so from the beginning when the bad news started to come up, there was a strong incentive to present the program on a certain way.
"U.S. Air Force instructs airmen on exactly how to praise the F-35": https://fortune.com/2015/09/25/air-force-f-35/
I think by now the US Air Force already understood the program is a failure.
"The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed": https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/02/23/the-us-air-...