Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Why Canada Has Chosen The F-35" video.

There's no point to that. Operating a dozen F-35s will cause the operational costs to rise, while also dealing with the added logistical tail of having to field dissimilar aircraft.
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@spackle9999 The F-15EX is simply a way to keep the St. Louis plant open. It's a "top of the line" aircraft with high operational cost and sticker price.
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@davidrydl7292 It's not slow. Pilots say the F-16 pilots have to run on afterburner to keep up with a F-35 on dry thrust. Newest radar technologies cannot defeat physics. You cannot make a flashlight that makes a black shirt reflect more light than a white shirt.
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@BLAKKKPOWERR The other way around. Operational costs may lower as a whole (because there's less aircraft available) but per aircraft they increase. The more aircraft your fleet has, the economies of scale lower the cost per aircraft. The smaller the fleet, the higher the costs per aircraft.
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@spackle9999 It's not me saying it, the St. Louis plant was going to close if Boeing didn't get more fighter orders. Not losing production capability is a hundred times more important than the justifications they can come up with.
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@criticalevent Now try to achieve the F-16 top speed with an actual combat load. The paint doesn't get blasted off. There is a situation with bubbles forming in the skin that has happened to B and C variants while flying supersonic at very high altitude. It only happened a few times and a peacetime restriction was put in place, but it's only a precaution. During wartime they'd be allowed to fly in those conditions as the chance it will happen is low.
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The Gripen is not as cheap as Saab claims. Stealth is rapidly becoming the price of admission.
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South Africa also put half their Gripen fleet in storage rotation to reduce the operational costs. Operational costs actually increased per flight hour as a result.
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@double0cinco795 There's an engine used in both F-16s and F-15s, where there's been actual airframe losses of F-15s after engine failure but no losses from F-16 engine failures. Modern engines are so reliable it's actually a total coin toss, single engine fighters have survived engine loss but twin engine aircraft haven't. Really crazy.
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All non-stealth aircraft will be grounded, and stealth becomes the normal.
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In Serbia the US SEAD/DEAD operations never took out all the radars. You're asking for something that will only occur very late in the conflict if the enemy plays their cards right.
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There's declassified reports of solved UAP cases. It's very boring stuff, unlicensed drones and target balloons for Stinger missile training. Better quality will increase the range at which UAP never become UAPs because they'll be identified through the footage, while things that will appear blurry on 4k footage due to distance will continue to be UAPs.
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@davidrydl7292 Shooting down a F-117 doesn't win the war when it just keeps pummeling a country into dust and forces the signature of the Kumanovo agreement ;) The better flashlight will illuminate normal aircraft better. So you'll still need stealth. If stealth was useless, why did Israel pick a stealth aircraft to add their own electronics, and not a normal aircraft? Thanks for admitting that stealth works and is the new standard.
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How were we lied about stealth?
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@briantaylor8197 Who said what? I don't think the average person understands radar physics so it's perfectly reasonable that someone trying to translate it for the general audience messed up. For the purpose, the F-117 was invisible to radar as Iraqi forces could not tell what was dropping bombs on them and fired into the air with manual AA out of desperation. If you use the F-117 correctly, it's "invisible". If you allow defenses to deploy trial and error tactics until they get inside engagement range, yeah you're doing it wrong. It's also important to consider that the radar failed to lock twice, and the first missile fired lost the lock and missed the F-117. And the pilot wasn't aware he was being fired on nor did the aircraft have counter-measures. That's how good the technology was, the missile stopped seeing an aircraft that was just cruising around. After the mission planners got humbled, tactics were changed and the F-117 resumed dropping bombs on Serbia. Guess it became "invisible" again.
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