Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "This jet fighter is a disaster, but Congress keeps buying it" video.

It's also important to consider that the people who don't think are effective include Russian experts, who are clearly unbiased and hack frauds like Pierre Sprey. In real world testing and pilot testimony the F-35 seems to be an excellent machine despite all the software blocks still in place, but the news media (renowned by their knowledge in military hardware) keep going back to Pierre Sprey, the "designer behind the F-16" despite the fact that the F-16 is a good plane because they gave it capabilities Sprey himself thought were useless. The people who think the F-35 isn't needed are people insisting that the US of A should stick to older designs that did well under past conflicts but are outdated in the modern world. People who don't know what it's even meant for.
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Look, the government is up to the eyes in cronyism, the Affordable Care Act was not a move towards better healthcare, it was the result of politicians being bought off by the businesses that would profit from forcing everyone to enroll in the program and eliminating health insurances that didn't "get with the program". Fairchild probably ran out of friends in Congress, I'd have to look into that situation myself. But are you seriously questioning the "one hand washes the other" mentality? The contracts had nothing to do with the JSF, so that excludes the possibility of handshakes under the table? Come on.
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***** So you're telling me that for example Richard C Blum, husband of Sen Feinstein, was never benefitted by his wife's activities? You're seriously implying that just because nobody got shitcanned for it, then Lockheed doesn't have their people in congress? Why buy watchdogs? You can look up every conflict of interest for yourself, they're being reported on, everyone is just too busy keeping up with the Kardashians.
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The F-22 is an air superiority fighter. The F-35 is a strike fighter.
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An important part to remember about the F-117 being shot down is that planners became careless and sent the planes down the same corridor at predictable times. They shot down a F-117 because it had left it's bomb bay open and thus making it easier to lock onto, not to mention that the F-117 pilot did not have a launch warning. It was human complacency that failed that F-117, not the stealth technology itself.
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+wesley ogilvie but a drone doesn't do the job just fine, which is why attack aircraft and multi-role fighters are performing the jobs that drones are not sent to do. Not having an airforce is only relevant when the enemy maintains air space superiority. And currently, the US, Russia, Syria, etc are enforcing said superiority over ISIS's skies.
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Okay by no means am I defending Fox News but CNN, MSNBC, etc are terribad at presenting anything about gun control laws. I don't watch Fox News but I'd assume they're the kind of people who'd actually call in experts in firearms, while the rest just calls butthurt senators and astroturf activist managers.
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Joseph Ballard "Have we forgotten that future conflicts between the US and nations equipped with similar technology would almost certainly result in a nuclear holocaust?" Russian/Chinese technology went head-to-head against American technology during the Cold War and there was no nuclear holocaust.
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Joseph Ballard So you're telling me that Vietnam or Korea were "cold" wars? During the Cold War several "hot" proxy wars were fought, in which both sides were armed by Americans or the Chinese/Russian. Remember, Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24 and NATO didn't get dragged into a nuclear holocaust. If you think a F-35 shooting down a PAK-FA or vice versa automatically means nuclear war, you're not really looking at the past. Great, you posted a story that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. I appreciate the understanding that nobody should have ever been trusted with nuclear weapons, but that event doesn't relate to American made gear going head to head with Russian/Chinese gear.
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