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Originally Posted by Platapus
F-35: A weapon desperately searching for an problem.  |
Or it is a problem for all three branches of the military, navy, marines, air force. And every of the three branches has a different problem with it, because the design tries to do justice to all three branches' differing demands and thus cannot do anything
really good.
Which makes it the meta-problem that the project is.
And with a super-expensive
stealth design being compromised by needing to hang external fuel tanks and weapons onto it, I have a principle problem... In German, we have a word for things like this: we call it the
eierlegende Wollmilchsau (egg-producing wool-milk-pig).
I would not be surprised to learn one day that the program was cancelled like the Comanche.