Those that describe the F35 as a failure aren’t using the same metrics as those behind the project.
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Replying to @MeFromBefore
"is it useful, good, or not a fuck up in any way?" vs "can it fly"
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Replying to @gypsy_panther @lsthmus
“How much money can we extract to muck around with this”
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Replying to @MeFromBefore
"How can we reasonably convince Congress we need a larger budget?"
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Replying to @gypsy_panther @lsthmus
Now you’re getting it. Note that it’s not just congress; they’ve grafted money from many countries for this pile of junk!
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Replying to @MeFromBefore
Like half of the Western world and half of the non-Western world at this point!
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Replying to @gypsy_panther @lsthmus
Yep! As far as fighting a war, it seems timely to mention that the German WWII tanks were excellent, but the cheap and nasty American tanks were easy to churn out in massive numbers.
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Replying to @MeFromBefore @lsthmus
true story from my gramps: he was a Lt. in the logistics corp for an armored division fighting in France after D-day. his main project was installing telephones on the outside of sherman tanks so that infantry walking alongside the tank could talk to the crew while the hatch...
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...was closed. this was considered high priority because the old method (climbing up on the turret and banging on the crew hatch to get them to open it up) was, uh, exploitable by German infantry in tragic but hilarious ways.
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I never learned if Panzers came with a phone installed from the factory but it seems like the kind of engineering detail that the Germans would not have overlooked.
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