Tweet of the Day: Money Well Spent?
If the American taxpayer has been wondering where and how the Department of Defense has been spending its money,… https://t.co/2s7wwlhnbD
— tomcoyner (@tomcoyner) November 27, 2017
If the American taxpayer has been wondering where and how the Department of Defense has been spending its money,… https://t.co/2s7wwlhnbD
— tomcoyner (@tomcoyner) November 27, 2017
Given time to refuel and rearm, i.e., staggered launches, those 12 F35s could eliminate the entire nork Air Force. I hope they share a few with the F-22s.
No. Really, I hope they convince the people who manage the fat rocket-boy to change the conversation away from war.
Lemay said it well. There is no such thing as a moral war.
True, there are some you must win; but people will die in any war. And it likely won’t be the illegitimi who caused it to happen.
The norks lose in any war; but I have friends and family between Guri, Paju, Seoul, Suwon, and Songtan on any given day. I don’t want them turned into casualties, if possible.
I still have some criticisms of those aircraft (both F-35 and F-22) but this is not the place or the time to state them.
GO TEAM!!!
Thanks JoeC! There are issues with all aircraft. But if the Nork pilots are as wormy as the “elite” soldier who defected, they might all fly into Manchuria within minutes of takeoff… G-forces don’t make stomach cramps feel better…
Certainly money not well spent, project was a disaster from the git go.
I’d rather defect South. Going to Manchuria is a one-way ticket back to Wormland.
J6, the problem with defecting south in a military aircraft is one of dodging incoming fire from potentially accurate AAA guns and missiles…
Flyingsword, we won’t know if the investment was worth it until it is tested I would argue the B-36 was one of the best investments because it was never tested. I would like to think the F-22 and F-35 might avoid combat, too; but there are too many egos involved…
It has worked before http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/24/world/north-korean-fighter-pilot-defects-to-south-with-jet.html
Some F35 notes: http://www.businessinsider.com/here-are-all-the-problems-with-the-f-35-that-the-pentagon-found-in-a-2014-report-2015-3
https://www.rt.com/usa/331308-pentagon-f35-issues-list/
And apparently the Chinese have hacked all the data, saving the R&D costs and built a copy already…. http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2015/09/more-questions-f-35-after-new-specs-chinas-copycat/121859/