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2010-02-03 Home Front: WoT

Gates Tries to Get F-35 Program Back on Course

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Posted by Steve White 2010-02-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 ROTFLMAO.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-02-03 03:10|| 2010-02-03 03:10|| Front Page Top

#2 If you're going to take all the electronics out of it and put in your own, you might as well stick with F-16's anyway rather than trying it with a plane where most of the cost is electronics you won't use to begin with and all the R&D cost is integrating the electronics into the airframe without screwing up the RCS.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-02-03 09:33|| 2010-02-03 09:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Heck, buy a 737, I understand they have much more room for electronics than a F-35.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-02-03 09:36|| 2010-02-03 09:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Wait til the Brits inform them that they're canceling their two fleet carriers and won't need their share of the F-35s ...

Posted by Steve White 2010-02-03 09:39|| 2010-02-03 09:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Besides - if you get 737's you can use them to shuttle the Queen Pelosi's family around the country and spend the savings on booze.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-02-03 10:48|| 2010-02-03 10:48|| Front Page Top

#6 ...Some folks who are in a position to suspect the worst are telling me the Air National Guard - which was going to get a good number of the -35s - is quietly looking for a way to cut the numbers or get out of it entirely. It's bad enough that some ANG staff are flat out denying that a couple of units that have been publicly ID'd as getting the -35 will ever see the airplane.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2010-02-03 19:18|| 2010-02-03 19:18|| Front Page Top

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