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[Madman198237]

Real Engineering's take on the F-35.

It's not as bad as it looks or is made to look. It's an impressively capable fighter and carrier aircraft despite its plentiful problems, and it has the computer hardware (unlike the F-22 and some others) to continue performing as a modern aircraft quite a ways into the future. A lot of its power and potential come from networking and avionics rather than obvious performance statistics.

[Il Palazzo]

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Do note that without quantifying those 'sometimes' qualifiers, that list may be similar to the lists of adverse effects of vaccines or other drugs - too rare to bother.
Furthermore, such problems should be compared to problems with existing aircraft the F-35 is slated to replace. It's not like all those older jets are perfect issue-less machines.

[Dostoevsky]

All true, though I've read additional takes that the "sometimes" for pitch/roll/yaw problems are less 'sometimes' and more 'any time making a tight maneuver'. That one is something that a software upgrade should be able to fix, theoretically.

Also the case that we (i.e. taxpayers) have spent already over $150 billion on it, with that number expected to reach anywhere from 300 billion to 1 trillion over the next few decades. The amount per year we're spending on just the F-35 is more than many agencies' entire budgets.

Not a hill I'm going to figuratively die on at any rate, and I'd certainly rather be wrong and have the program end up well. Also, by 'competitor' to the F-35 for that new prototype I was referring to existing alongside it seeing as we're already buying new upgraded prior-gen aircraft alongside the F-35.

[Lord Shonus]

Much of that is in the earliest-manufacture aircraft, as a result of the idiotic "concurrent design" practice where planes were beimg manufactued while the design was being finalized.

[Dostoevsky]

In further 'other' news, it seems a wall street investment firm is starting up the first U.S. futures contracts for water in California. Gotta monetize scarcity, after all.

Excellent times all around.

[Starver]

I would have thought that was already a thing...

(I imagine it'd be an attractive hedge to those with plenty of liquid assets.)

[Starver]

(Double-post, as there's clear water, and nobody else yet said anything inbetween.)

Obama has finished his first book.

It's not out until just after this election, though, I suppose because (unlike some people) he knows to keep it classy.


I've also heard a rumour that Trump is about to finish a book he started just after his inaugeration. Something about caterpillars and hunger, apparently..?

[hector13]

(Double-post, as there's clear water, and nobody else yet said anything inbetween.)

Obama has finished his first book.

It's not out until just after this election, though, I suppose because (unlike some people) he knows to keep it classy.


I've also heard a rumour that Trump is about to finish a book he started just after his inaugeration. Something about caterpillars and hunger, apparently..?

Hey man, he aced those cognitive tests. Aced!

[JoshuaFH]

(Double-post, as there's clear water, and nobody else yet said anything inbetween.)

Obama has finished his first book.

It's not out until just after this election, though, I suppose because (unlike some people) he knows to keep it classy.


I've also heard a rumour that Trump is about to finish a book he started just after his inaugeration. Something about caterpillars and hunger, apparently..?

Hey man, he aced those cognitive tests. Aced!

Time to preorder my copy of "Person Woman Man Camera TV"

[MrRoboto75]

Is that the long-awaited sequel to "Whose Boat is this Boat?

[Jopax]

I do wonder what an experience of reading a whole book written solely in trumpspeak would be like. Probably necronomicon tier gibbering madness after a while.

[voliol]

The reason I prefer to consume Trump's twitter as second-hand retellings.

[delphonso]

I assume it'll be edited to the point of being ghost-written and Republicans will hold it up next to Atlas Shrugged as a masterpiece.

[Starver]

Already done, with The Art Of The Deal.

(And, word on the grapevine is that Trump is almost at the point he eventually finds out why it's so hungry. The White House media team have implored irresponsible journalists not to spoil it for him at the next press rally briefing...)

[RedKing]

"This caterpillar, he's a loser. Look how long it's taken him to eat that -- I can eat stuff way faster, just ask anybody. I mean nobody -- they said Bill Clinton was a big eater but -- just ask Melania, if you know what I mean, right?"

*Melania glares sullenly*