The Armory - Guns, Knives, and Axes

[Speaker to Animals]

If you want to insult me, that is fine. At least attempt to make a coherent argument. Bombarding people with vacuous insults without ever making a single God damned argument of your own wastes everybody's time and is beneath the other forum members.

I am sad to say I regret you ever started posting here again and your performance in this thread confirms that regret is soundly based.

[StCapps]

I am sad to say I regret you ever started posting here again and your performance in this thread confirms that regret is soundly based.

You said that already. I get it, you don't like me. Whoop dee do.

[Speaker to Animals]

I just do not like the fact that you disguise the fact that you have no idea about a topic with endless pages of childlike insults. Like I said, if you want to insult, that's fine. You still need an argument.

[TheReal_ND]

Shut up retard

[Speaker to Animals]

Great discussion.

[TheReal_ND]

Nice strawman

[The Conservative]

Get a room you three.

[Speaker to Animals]

I will continue to post stories that interest me. These characters are dead to me, however, and any post I make should not be construed as an invitation for more harassment from them, or really anything at all from them.

[TheReal_ND]

[Smitty-48]

It certainly is distressing to lose a jet.

Particularly the pilot, but Japan is also out a hundred million dollars.

Based on the reports tho, seems to be plausibly something more catastrophic than a simple engine failure.

If the engine quit the pilot would have glided back towards shore as close as he could before ejecting.

This plane seems to have spiraled in rather precipitously, like it was a flight control failure.

None the less, fighter pilot is a dangerous profession, fighters crash all the time, price of doing business.

With combat aircraft, safety is not the highest priority, war is not safe, neither is training for war.

Twin engine redundancy is of course a fallacy, as there's plenty of twin engines jets crashing too.

Canada for example has lost 20 CF-18's with 11 pilots killed, and not once was the number of engines a factor.

In fact, pilot error is by far and away the primary cause of crashes.

F-35 has been flying for 20 years now, with only two crashes.

It's flight safety record is far better than the twin engine CF-18's.

In terms of the assertion that single engines can't fly over the ocean?

Seems to fly in the face of the Navy & Marine Corps operating single engine A-4, A-7, AV-8 and F-8, for decades.

The single engine F-8 Crusader is one of the greatest Navy jets of all time.

Also used by the French Navy for many years after America retired it, as their primary fleet defence fighter.