Smitty-48 wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2019 10:52 pm
Military acquisition on a massive scale is like building an NHL team.
You have to stick to the program and continue to fix the problems from within.
Fake Reform is like the Leafs media and fanbase.
Constantly calling for you to trade your picks and prospects away now.
For a Super Duper Commander Data Drone perfect player which isn't out there.
Or maybe you need more Truculence!, so trade away elite skill for an A-10.
According to the poll, this forum want more Truculence!, and want to trade elite skill for an A-10.
Sad.
F-35 is Mitch Marner, A-10 is Milan Lucic.
F-22 is Connor McDavid, but Obama drank the Fake Reform Kool Aid; 'Boondoggle'
Boondoggle Kool Aid is a helluva drug. America passing on Connor McDavid is an epic fail. Well I suppose it's more like they are relegating him to the bottom six.
StCapps wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2019 12:54 am
According to the poll, this forum want more Truculence!, and want to trade elite skill for an A-10.
Sad.
F-35 is Mitch Marner, A-10 is Milan Lucic.
F-22 is Connor McDavid, but Obama drank the Fake Reform Kool Aid; 'Boondoggle'
Boondoggle Kool Aid is a helluva drug. America passing on Connor McDavid is an epic fail. Well I suppose it's more like they are relegating him to the bottom six.
They have a Connor McDavid, Fake Reform just wants the A-10 Lucic on his wing instead of the F-35 Marner.
F-22 is Connor McDavid, but Obama drank the Fake Reform Kool Aid; 'Boondoggle'
Boondoggle Kool Aid is a helluva drug. America passing on Connor McDavid is an epic fail. Well I suppose it's more like they are relegating him to the bottom six.
They have a Connor McDavid, Fake Reform just wants the A-10 Lucic on his wing instead of the F-35 Marner.
Chia Pet Failz.
Yeah but they aren't giving McDavid enough ice time, Thanks Obamarelli.
StCapps wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2019 1:29 am
Boondoggle Kool Aid is a helluva drug. America passing on Connor McDavid is an epic fail. Well I suppose it's more like they are relegating him to the bottom six.
They have a Connor McDavid, Fake Reform just wants the A-10 Lucic on his wing instead of the F-35 Marner.
Chia Pet Failz.
Yeah but they aren't giving McDavid enough ice time, Thanks Obamarelli.
Obama was a creature of the media, the media loves them some Fake Reform, Millerism is the best click bait.
F-35 Doomsday is a click bait cow, so upon getting Obama to 'replace' F-22 with F-35, they immediately switched to trashing F-35 with an identical Fake Reform smear campaign.
Were they able to get F-35 to be replaced with the Super Drones, they would immediately start trashing the Super Drones.
Fake Reform is an entrenched interest unto itself; liberal media fake jobs.
F-35 does not even have a suitable range for Canada's purposes. Canada has a huge frontier to defend in the north. F-35's effective combat range without tankers must be somewhere around 200-300 nautical miles.
Not even accounting for the absurdity of flying single engine aircraft over subarctic environments, for the F-35 to work at all, Canada would need significant investment in tankers.
There are just so many drawbacks to that platform that it's not worth it. The political corruption could foist that fucking thing on the CAF just like it did to the USAF, but realistically they probably want something more appropriate and effective than that boondoggle.
You almost are better off with the F-15X, honestly. It's cheaper than an F-22 (assuming we ever get those things in production again). It's payload is absolutely massive, with more than twenty missiles loaded on it, and it can launch the newer long-range hypersonic missiles (which F-35 never will without pylons that will negate the stealth advantage you paid so much for). It's range is fucking boss. You can get your aircraft to the rest of the world without having to rely on American tankers refueling you over the oceans.
F-35 is highly overrated. For it's actual role (which is not a main air superiority fighter at all, but support roles like the F-16 was designed for), the stealth actually hinders it's performance anyway.
I sort of wonder if this was Lockmart's plan all along. They can bilk the tax payer for the F-35 scam and, when the truth becomes absolutely clear to the American public that this boondoggle is a threat to national security, we will be forced to fall back on the original plan. But the original plan involved another Lockmart product that actually works well. To get that going again, they basically will need a completely new model, with the avionics tech they developed for the F-35 adapted to the new platform. Which means more money for Lockmart.
To just tell Lockmart to die in a fire means we would probably spend more for somebody like Boeing to build a new fighter from the ground up.
Meanwhile, Boeing is working on the actual game-changers that are suborbital strike aircraft, but those aren't going to be adopted in the USAF inventory for probably twenty years.
No fucking way combat radius is 600 nm. That's probably assuming you cruise somewhere, launch a missile, and cruise back home. A realistic figure is more like 200-300 nm, which is woefully inadequate.
