Is the F-35 a boondoggle or not? I keep seeing shit saying it

>>30962292

No, bit behind schedule and overbudget. Business as usual. Move along.

Actually all negative things about are just Chicom propaganda in an effort to get Americans butthurt over cost so the project gets canceled. Don't you know the j21 wins every scenario anyways?

>>30962406
That and the Vatnik web brigades earning their bread and Vodka.

>>30962292

The F-35 honestly was a boondoggle for a long time. Things really got straightened out after the program got restructured.

Its over budget and behind schedule, but full scale production is starting this year.

Its no boondoggle because it will be fielding the most advanced radar, and jet engines that have ever been built.

>>30963560
And because it was always going to be expensive to replace the viper fleet, but it has to happen. These fucking things are older then their pilots, ground crew and the Secretary of Defense combined.

>>30962406
>j21
a jugoslav fighter jet? :^)

>>30962857
you should find another word for chinaboo

>>30962292
Given they actually approved it for active service instead of adding it to the pile of failed projects, no it was not a boondoggle.

>>30963625
I don't know, you should check out the Vatnik shitposting here: http://www.wired.com/2016/08/stare-tank-barrel-russias-friendly-war-games/

>>30962292
Its not as shit as the detractors claim and it's not as great as the guys trying to counter those retards with their own retardation say. It's a fine multi-roll jet, nothing more.

>>30962292
it is

>>30962292
Yes, the F-35 is a colossal boondoggle. That said, it will probably eventually do what it's supposed to, which is more than can be said for LockMart"s other boondoggle, the LCS.

>>30964870
this

>>30964870
>>30964926
>>30965567
>Idiots who don't know what a boondoggle is

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>>30962292
>be skunkworx
>design seventh-generation interceptors & bombers with perfect stealth and gravity lensing propulsion
>thx ayyy lmao 4 teh l337 tech
>cannot allow anyone without sufficiently high clearance to know about these amazing aerospacecraft
>openly design & build middle-of-the-road fifth-generation multi-role combat aircraft to go against contemporary foreign fifth-gen fighters
>f-35
>it's not as good as the other countries' gen5 fighters because of reasons:
>(1) russians & chinese putting everything into gen5
>(2) murka putting only liek 50% into gen5 because the other half's funding the secret gen7
>tfw danger zone

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>>30966240
>China and Russia have 5th Gen fighters

>>30962292
it's a solid plane

>>30962292
If /k/ is your only hope, you've have already lost