USAF pilot: F-35 lousy

[OrionHunter]

Mmmm...The great minds of warfare on PDF are at it again...

Republican Senator John McCain, not exactly averse to American weapons of mass destruction, calls the F-35 “one of the greatest national scandals that we have ever had, as far as the expenditure of taxpayers’ dollars are concerned.”

And "the F-35 isn't even close to fully operational - it can fly only on sunny days. It can't fly at night. And it can't fly in clouds or near lightning. Has poor dog fighting capabilities. We know this because the Pentagon tells us so, in a report written for the Secretary of Defense by the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, J. Michael Gilmore".

Then WTF can it do? LEMON!

 

[hammer head]

You're right about the sensors, but you know just as much as anybody, that China has advanced electronic warfare capabilities, and with it's millions of engineers, can easily outperform the US in the coming years. Aside from all this, sensors and BVR capability are no substitute for a good basic airframe. The F-35 is not a good basic airframe, because it's built around different requirements (B-model) etc. Idiots couldn't even put on a correct tail hook for the carrier model. And you keep talking about 'top secret technology'. Come on. The US isn't infallible. The Chinese J-10 is just as capable as the Rafale/Eurofighter. So what makes you think the J-20 is a flop? If anything, the Chinese took all the info they wanted from the Americans and improved it.


The Cuda is nonsense, it's merely a drawing board program. Hasn't even been properly defined or engineers, hasn't had a test or anything. Look it up on the internet. Not a single peep from that program since it's 'announcement' in 2012.

Hold on man u going way over head here ...first of Chinese do not I mean do have have good engines yet for the j-20 the most important key to a jet its its engines.. Let face facts here the us do not really care about the f-35 because first its was a bust to begin with the f-35 is like mostly like a upgrade of a f-16 secondly the us have so classified projects that's is going on as we speak Russian can't out do the us in most things even today .....there is a project for a 6 gean jet most focus is putting in to right now ...not to even say the j-20 is a copy of of three plan ...a jet platform wHich was taken from the Russian people which call mig 1.444 I think and they took the shaping from the f-35 I mean com on man the I don't the j-20 could take an f-22 first of the su-35 was not made to take f-22 its was made for f-15s which mean an j-20 ,j-31 can't beat an f-22 and the f-22 is subject to be upgraded in to a even more deadly jet!!!!!!! An f-35 is once again an f-16 and let talk about readers and Russian us is... invasion of it okay lets get that right those copy cat always end years and years behind