Is he right?

>>31928416
sure, if you count it's over 3000 aircraft being built for the US and our allies. Not to mention it's the lifetime cost.
It's like saying if I said raising a child will cost 1 million dollars and intentionally leave out the part about how it's spread out over 22 years (assuming college). Not tot mention as it gets more mature costs go down as it becomes more mature.

>>31928552
>that last sentence i wrote

>>31928416
>Cracked
>right

>>31928416
F35s are almost ready for combat.
The major flaws have been fixed and its almost ready senpai.
The first few shipments to Europe have been delivered.
And they all love the f35.
Lotta situational awareness and ease of flight.

Lockheed projects to build 2,300 f35s

>>31928416
we really need to collect a dossier of everyone who screamed the F-35 would be shit, then rub it firmly in their faces. This includes people who are arrogant enough to go "Because i said something it got fixed."

>>31929532
I just dislike the thing because they tried to replace the A10 for CAS missions think8ng it will outperform the damn thing

>>31929597
But it will

>>31928416

> "A-10, F-16, F-15, F/A-18, AV-8B... these numbers mean nothing to you, let's put it in Star Wars terms."

Fucking normies.

>>31929624
for anti tank work, maybe. but i seriously doubt that it will outperform the A-10 in general purpose CAS work.

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it is "too big to fail" in as much as it is mature and by cancelling it america would be shafting its partners like Britain who helped develop it and have based their entire carrier strategy on the F-35B

>lets scrap a program that is over half way finished and works fine while also creating Skybolt Crisis 2: electric bongaloo all because some bitter old cuck called it lemon

how would they even resolve the massive shitstorrm from the USgov completely fucked the bongs over by canceling the F-35B? give them free legacy hornets and EMAILS if they convert their carriers?