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And you thought $88 Million Was A Lot To Waste on NASCAR?
reference: http://www.democraticunderground.com/11784346
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/05/08/361791/us-f35-jets-unable-to-escape-radars/
US F-35 jets unable to escape radars: Aviation Week
Thursday May 08, 201405:47 PM GMT
US warplanes, under the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, are incapable of escaping Russian and Chinese radars, a report says.
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter... is not, in fact, stealthy in the eyes of a growing number of Russian and Chinese radars, the Aviation Week recently reported.
The report said the F-35 is not even effective in jamming enemy radar.
The US Department of Defense is spending hundreds of billions of dollars for a fighter that will need the help of specialized jamming aircraft, the Aviation Week stated in its report.
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Why would we spend a quarter of a billion dollars for a plane that needs an expensive jammer aircraft for survival?
We are spending our future into the dirt with this and other POSs.
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And you thought $88 Million Was A Lot To Waste on NASCAR? (Original Post)
unhappycamper
May 2014
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GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)1. Greed!
TekGryphon
(430 posts)2. As a rule, I dislike "news" sites that reference reports they refuse to link
I tried searching for Aviation Week F35 radar and all I got was a bunch of copy/pastes of this article all over the fringe news sites.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)5. I've found the quotes on dailybeast by the same writer who writes for aviation week
This column also appears in the April 28 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/28/new-u-s-stealth-jet-can-t-hide-from-russian-radar.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/28/new-u-s-stealth-jet-can-t-hide-from-russian-radar.html
http://aviationweek.com/defense/opinion-jamming-needed-against-agile-radar-threat
nyabingi
(1,145 posts)3. We gotta keep the profits
rolling in for the military hardware manufacturers and keep some conflict going to justify the expeditures.
TRoN33
(769 posts)4. Words has gotten around that pilots from USAF
Has alleged that F-22 is superior in every performance parameters over F-35. Superior in stealth, flight performance, and less susceptible to enemy jamming while F-35's avionics has gotten fried by F-16's radar jammers.