Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "" video.

  1. The F-117 was extremely successful.
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  2.  @Globalscanningeyes  Two crashed.
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  3. Did your 18 wheeler fly over Iran in such an embarrassing event that they had to fire the head of the air force?
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  4. Quantum radar doesn't exist.
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  5. The SR-71 wasn't stealth, it just went full throttle whenever a radar-guided SAM was fired at it.
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  6. Carbon fiber isn't radar absorbing.
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  7. Why?
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  8. Not when they're hauling external tanks and missiles/bombs with fins under their wings.
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  9. It's better than everything else we have, the Gripen is too expensive and not capable enough, a modernized F-15 is just as expensive as a F-35. Its range is better than other fighters with external tanks, the armament is satisfactory with internal only.
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  10. The problem is that a bird is much smaller than an aircraft, so the inverse square law is working against you. By the time you get a contact at 350 kts heading your way, you should probably start running. There's already a glide bomb about to fall on your radar site.
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  11. How so? It's cheaper than 4th gen jets, absolutely curbstomps everything else. Rookie F-35 pilots can score kills on veteran F-16 pilots.
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  12.  @michaelwhite3615  Are you just here to spam the same old and tired reformist talking point? If so, you are the ultimate Pierre Sprey fanboy. Take a look at Ukraine and see what happens when you say "ahhh to expensive". Well, the cheap stuff gets shot down. Either spend the money, or don't have an air force. Trying to cheap out is deadly.
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  13.  @michaelwhite3615  I'm not the one spamming all the "waaah waah" cope from 2015.
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  14.  @michaelwhite3615  Your 2015 talking points.
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  15.  @michaelwhite3615  It's also not my fault you post wrong opinions that need to get fact checked. Does National Interest send you a check?
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  16.  @michaelwhite3615  Okay. And a perfect example why some issues should not be decided by the uniformed voter. You don't get to decide anything. The people you elect know that they will be sinking their own air force is they stop buying F-35s. So don't flatter yourself. Your freedom of choice ends where the freedom of choice of our military leaders (who want F-35s) begins.
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  17. No, it's a jobs program because otherwise Boeing would have to close the St. Louis plant. Look at procurement numbers. The USAF has 144 but proposed cutting to 80. The Navy asked for Super Hornet production to stop and it's lawmakers and lobbyists that want it to continue. The Corvette comparison makes no sense. The F-15EX is a very expensive 4.5 gen with twin engines. Its operational costs are on par with the F-35. It's a Corvette too!
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  18.  @davidschupbach2113  I'm not missing the point. There's a ton of things individuals have done that can't be done at scale. It's hard to convey in a small number of words, but things that work in a vacuum many times don't work outside those conditions. Such as, how would power and wavelengths interact with such a surface? Would it even hold to high subsonic speeds? Would it work if the aircraft had to fly in arctic conditions? Or over Kuwait? There's a reason there's people being paid the big bucks to say that rotating the bolts by 25º will reduce the radar returns. That's right, the insides of the F-35 were modified because they could get less radar returns from changing the orientation in which bolts were pointed when fastening pieces together. These are highly complex subjects that require time and money to research, and an 18 wheeler that beats speed traps isn't gonna drop bombs on Kim Jong Il's palace.
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  19. No. There's no cheap 6th gen multirole in the pipeline.
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  20. The 4 missiles is only a limit without the Sidekick expansion program that extends it to 6. Also, missiles on a 4th gen are used for spoiler shots that are never meant to hit, just for the enemy to go defensive. With stealth, you can position yourself to have every missile be a kill shot. Hang 10 AMRAAMs on a 4th gen all you want, half of them won't be able to score kills on a purely statistical basis. It's not the slowest jet. A F-16 needs to punch afterburner to fly in formation with a F-35 in dry thrust according to F-16 pilots. Ground radar and AWACS doesn't make stealth irrelevant. It doesn't have limited AoA, it's in fact a nose pointer. Pilots describe it like a F/A-18 where the nose pointing authority can be used to defeat more nimble fighters. It's not bulkier than other modern fighters.
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  21.  @saquist  1. Okay. In the old days aircraft were made and only had the ability to fire AIM-9s and had to wait for Sparrow integration. Big deal. 2. Low probability of intercept radar. Also, there's other means of acquiring lock. 3. The F/A-18 doesn't have thrust vectoring. Or canards. Your "doubt" does not contradict real pilots. I don't know who taught you about aircraft but get a refund. 4. All the other aircraft carry external tanks so they're in a worse spot than the F-35.
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  22. Only in the B and C variants, at very high altitudes. It's a freak situation that is hard to replicate.
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