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F-35 pilots are seeing double, but it's the plane that's drunk
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter may be stealthy, powerful and expensive, but the plane's greatest threat isn't the enemy. Instead, engineers have discovered a software glitch that gives these new super fighters the technological equivalent of double vision. F-35s are equipped with Advanced Sensor Fusion, a system that's designed to collate sensor data from all of the planes and combine them into one big picture. If you have 10 jets zooming around, all of the allied pilots and… (www.engadget.com) More...
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You can't make these kinds of things up!
As much as you'd like to flush this turd, there's too much invested now. Wouldn't it be nice if the Pentagon stopped believing this plane can do it all? <insert History 101 here>
Especially regards the A-10 debate: The Hog is unquestionably the best design close support already doing the job.
Especially regards the A-10 debate: The Hog is unquestionably the best design close support already doing the job.
It may be too big to fail as you say but as he is a personal friend and now my Senator, I have inserted Tom Cotton into this fight. Let's see what he can dig out of it, especially as a CAS replacement for the A10. I think his days as an Army Ranger in that territory may put a different perspective on things.
I think Tom will mature and do well. No matter what I respect my brothers in arms.
Nothing that another few Billion won't fix, maybe?
What's the cost per aircraft running now?
What's the cost per aircraft running now?
A few nuther billion wouldn't be bad if it would fix the problem but so far nothing is clear cut.
