check out the seats in this thing. Maybe not! Read more

that's exactly right! Read more

Many of them aren’t even paid! They email me and end up telling me they work for LM or have a brother that works for a sub contractor who is a good guy. It’s maddening. You can’t say a good thing about this program without being a fan boy or a bad thing without being a hater. Not an easy gig telling the truth as you… Read more

haha great story! Read more

This was not even a bashing article! tabloid site? I have well over 200 very detailed articles on this weapon system. You have zero argument or facts. Who is the random basher here? Also, THIS IS AN F-35 pilots own words! Read more

I am not seeing it? Read more

Guam would be a safer option, and you can’t operate F-35Bs in your backyard like you think, especially if under attack. You need to have dispersal areas ready to go, not a cratered mega target base like Kadena. Read more

HOBS IR missile with HMD/S Read this http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/why-its-sad-th… Read more

this is inaccurate. I will have my response by next week Read more

Lots of close in engagements due to ROE’s and the spatial scenerio Read more

Then you should be doing seminars for the command staff at the Pentagon about how we can cut our spending to just a force that can only take on low end threats. Then again why do we need an F-35 is that is the case? Read more

Keep thinking the enemy is a incompetent doormat that will only throw a handful of 4th gens and a few cruise missiles our way. Do some reserach about fighting over vast distances in an A2/AD scenerio, or just keeping waving you flag and believing whatever you want. The enemy can push us out hundreds, even thousands of… Read more

call it a piggy bank for all I care or “Not that nimble fighter,” F-105 II, Joint Strke Tornado, it is what it is and it was sold as more than it is in the manueverability dept. It’s a story of constant over promising as much as one of the jets abilities WVR. I still give the jet plenty of benefit of the doubt in… Read more

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in an expeditionary situation, especially one in the Pacifc, 30 raptors gives you very little on station time for a fraction of that force and even that is not sustainable. During even a limited major conflict, a capable foe will flood the zone with throngs of cruise missiles as well as fighters and even converted… Read more

no, it is much more complex than that but thanks. Also, it's not like they claimed this for years, quite the opposite Read more

no, i have explained that at great length in many articles before. You are quite wrong, UCAV warfare is not analogous to manned fighter warfare. I cannot shove my whole body of work into every piece. Read more

the report is readily available, that was not my title, take it up with David Axe. Read more

The world is rapidly changing. Clubbing tin pot dictators old jets is a far cry from even a limited peer state conflict. But even going by your logic, why then do we need a fighter at all? Read more

Exactly. Read more