I have said it over and over, the Pentagon and the Hill is as much to blame for this anyone. They were stupid enough to buy the promises that were being sold as well. Read more
Our F-22s? If you deployed like 75 F-22s to Guam, at best you could keep a fourship over the Taiwan Strait for any given time. This is just one example. There are not enough Raptors to go around for a major conflict, only what 130 combat coded jets or something? The F-35 force will want to fight together and since it… Read more
Great points. The idea that the F-35 is relevant in 30 years is laughable in the first place. Read more
It really made no difference and they could record the telemetry and how the jet responded to actual air combat maneuvers. AF-2 is outfitted for that. It is within visual range so none of the crap they listed mattered. Laughable. Read more
I don’t agree with everything War Is Boring puts out there but David is a good reporter for the most part. The post that went up recently about the F-35 being a shitty BVR fighter using Airpower Australia I was not a fan of. I am going to do a post on reporting on the F-35 and all the bullshit that is out there. Read more
Take that reference out and the piece reads using only modern circumstances. The idea that no enemy aircraft will make it past a BVR exchange with F-35s is non sense. Even our own testing is insufficient to replicate a real peers state competitor force throwing a LOT of targets at our forces which will most likely be… Read more
Not even close. Read more
I sorta disagree with that last statement. I have long held that we should have just evolved the F-22 and gone directly to UCAVs. We don’t need a fighter at all. I could care less how maneuverable this thing is IF it wasn’t designed and marketed as a fighter, with the trade-offs in LO and range that go with it, when… Read more
Not even with AIM-9X! Read more
If you are flying against an occasional four ship of antiquated aircraft maybe, but in the real world, facing the threats we may face soon, this is not accurate. Read more
wow! Living in 2004, thank you! Fixed! Read more
Take a deep breath, I have full control of the content of my pieces but sometimes not the headlines. And who really cares, if this is a deal breaker for you, than maybe it just won't work out brotha Read more
wow, very interesting! Read more
absolutely! Shoot me an email at tyler@jalopnik.com Read more
Actually you could not be more wrong. Everyone has an opinion, just because Dustin’s is different than your’s or mine does not mean he is a tool for anyone. Nobody edited his comments and he is not even in the service anymore. Read more
Inevitable. I could see numbers end up being 2/3 to half that once they realize the operational cost. Read more
thank you! That slipped by! Always something. Read more
The top video that showed the tests (where the GIF came from) was somehow stripped from the post. It is back now, sorry about that, not sure why that was dropped during the last save. Read more
great point Read more
Well... It was haha. Read more