Interview: Paul Livingston hits back at the billionaire’s claim the fighter jets will soon be obsolete

Summary

Lockheed Martin UK’s chief, Paul Livingston, defended the F-35 stealth jet program after Elon Musk called it obsolete due to advances in unmanned drones.

Livingston emphasized the F-35’s unmatched capabilities, including stealth, battlefield data-sharing, and cost-efficiency by replacing multiple aircraft types.

While Musk labeled the program overly expensive and poorly designed, Livingston argued drones alone can’t match the F-35’s capabilities or defend against threats like China’s J20 jets.

Despite criticism over cost and reliability, the F-35 remains integral to NATO defenses, with widespread adoption across 19 nations, including the UK.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2013·
    2 days ago

    Elon is such an idiot.

    This is the same shit he pulled back when he pushed drones as a solution to all those kids trapped in a cave. They weren’t even remotely viable, and when human beings rescued them, he called the leader of that successful operation a “pedo” for absolutely no reason other than his own childish idiocy.

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netEnglish
      16·
      2 days ago

      he called the leader of that successful operation a “pedo” for absolutely no reason other than his own childish idiocy.

      Come on Muskrat call the CEO of Lockheed Martin a pedo

    • Clent@lemmy.worldEnglish
      65·
      2 days ago

      he called the leader of that successful operation a “pedo” for absolutely no reason other than his own childish idiocy.

      I think it’s darker than that. Their solution involved doping the kids so they were heavily sedated during transport. This was out of fear they would panic and threaten their own life and that of the person transporting them.

      The dark part is how Musk’s mind associated sedating a child to make them more docile with sexual assault.

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      38·
      2 days ago

      or like when he brained up hyperloop to prevent normal high speed trains development in california, but this one is too glaringly stupid and it’s going against thing that already is proven to work, and with no equals

    • schema@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      2 days ago

      That was the first time heard about Musk other than a few articles about him. And it was the moment I knew that he was an actual dumbass.