F-35: The Part-Time Fighter Jet
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The F-35 fleet can only perform the full range of its combat roles 30% of the time. This unreliability renders the entire program ineffective.
  • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    9·
    8 months ago

    I’m in the bag for the damn F-16. It should have never been abandoned, they should have just built hundreds and hundreds of the things with robot brains.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      8 months ago

      Okay but 16 is less than half of 35

      More seriously, they do have F-16s with robot brains. They’re called Predators and they’re terrifying, particularly when employed inside a defensive perimeter.

      But they’re not great at power projection. F-22s/35s are built for extended range.