So was the f-35 a good idea in the end?
yeah
The f-35 is the spiritual successor to the mig-21, of course it would be successful.
>>62086366This is one of the most outrageous posts I've read in years.
>>62086375good. means we're returning to form
>>62086339Anyone claiming X or Y system is great or terrible before it sees combat is guessing based on propaganda from both sides.
>>62086600Ah, typical /k/.
>>62086339Yes but not for the reasons you might think
>>62086600Good thing the F-35 saw combat in the middle eastern theater then.
>>62086926>combat
>>62086960>It doesn't count if it dabs on Muslims undetected!
>>62086339Is this the one where a pilot jacks it off?
>>62086339The idea of a light stealth mass-produced multirole fighter jet was a good one.The idea of a common design with three different variants was stupid and already failed once with F-111.
>>62087024>The idea of a common design with three different variants was stupidThe F-35 is practically worth it just out of the gate for how superior it is to the AV-8B; effectively doubling the number of carriers the US Navy has available and making it viable for the UK and Japan to have carriers at allIt also being a straight upgrade to the F-16 and F/A-18 is just gravyIn fact even as it balloons past the trillion mark I'm pretty sure it's still cheaper than three programs replacing all of them would have been
>>62086339Yeah probably, stealth plane that can drop a paveway, since most modern soviet/russian planes are going to be depleted in the near future, what is not to love.Shame that they don't produce the F-111F for paveway dropping needs anymore.
The F-35 is cheaper per airframe than a Gripen, a Rafale, a J-20 or a MiG-35.If the US is making a mistake, what the fuck is literally everybody else doing?The latter two surprised me to learn because I thought you could operate Russian/Chinese jets with change from a laundromat but not anymore I guess
>>62086969You said it bud
>>62086922What reasons did you have in mind
>>62087024Yeah but the f-111 makes my pp hard so it's based
>>62087024>The idea of a common design with three different variants was stupid and already failed once with F-111.Nobody tell him about the F-4.
>>62087069Part of it is simply volume of scale. They're producing so many F-35s that they can afford to discount the prices. By comparison, all the other 4.5 and 5th generation competitors have such small production runs (Gripen and Rafale), are struggling with trying to catch up with cutting edge tech (J-20) or just straight up don't exist (MiG-35).
>>62086339Inflation art
>lust provoking image>somewhat relevant time-wasting question
>>62090711>cutting edge tech (J-20)lol
>>62092156>lust provoking imagefor whom? it's a fucking plane
>>62092358You're telling me you wouldn't cum all over those abs?
>>62092358Pretty sure this artist draws this plane having sex, so it literally is indeed a fucking plane.
>>62092371Oh, I must have overwritten the actual image, fuck.See you all in Autumn, boys.
