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Even back in the 80s, the Brits were heavily dependent on the Americans to be able to have their little war. Now, not only is everyone weaker, but the US is a little busy.
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forums posters Zadok Allen and crepeface, please claim your prize for correctly calling that it was about gas: https://twitter.com/haaretzcom/status/1726808905131401549
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Ardennes posted:Britain has got around 28 of (35-Bs) them I think last I heard, and the only operational carrier, the HMS Elizabeth, is carrying a whole 8 of them with an unknown amount being combat ready. US' F-35 Bs have a mission capable rate of around 10-15% I think. The Prince of Wales is now sailing and flying aircraft, after a year (more?) of having to fix all kinds of very broken stuff on the ship. Finally set out to sea a couple months ago. The current deployment looks like a combination of making sure that it's all for real fixed and also doing a wide variety of flight training and interoperability checkouts with the Americans in the Atlantic. I don't know where you got F-3B mission capable rates of 10-15%, do you have a source? GAO puts it around 50-55% for F-35Bs, which is still poor, but 10-15% seems like it would generate some serious headlines. https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-23-105341.pdf
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Retromancer posted:My man, let me introduce you to the Allied IFV from C&C Red Alert 2 600 million or billion?
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Why not both? /MIC
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Psychic Blast Dome is also what it gets when your mom is placed inside it.
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Genocide Joe sure likes to see things burn
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Boat Stuck posted:Genocide Joe sure likes to see things burn Lit by the flames of hell as he teeters on the edge
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Boat Stuck posted:Genocide Joe sure likes to see things burn you see the cake is your hope and dreams for a better future and biden is smiling watching it burn while doing nothing, very simple
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Yeah according to that report...the full mission-capable rate of the F-35B is between 0 and around 18% depending on when it was built. The early F-35s have a pretty shocking mission-capable rate in general. Even more recently, within the last year a half, the fully mission-capable rate of even later F-35As (the best of the lot) have dipped below 40%. How the hell is the US going to fight a war with these things if the operational rate is dropping this fast even during peacetime? Also, a carrier fitting out doesn't mean combat operational. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 20:52 on Nov 21, 2023 |
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sounds like the us needs a new and improved fighter that can do everything even betterer than the f-35. for a mere two trillion dollars i'm willing to design one, and if you throw in another trillion i'll make it able to fly in a vacuum so the space force can get in on the action too
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Ardennes posted:Yeah according to that report...the full mission-capable rate of the F-35B is between 0 and around 18% depending on when it was built. The early F-35s have a pretty shocking mission-capable rate in general. Even more recently, within the last year a half, the fully mission-capable rate of even later F-35As (the best of the lot) have dipped below 40%. How the hell is the US going to fight a war with these things if the operational rate is dropping this fast even during peacetime? Yeah mission-capable rates in the 50-70s and full mission-capable around the 40s are bad, no doubt.
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Cerebral Bore posted:sounds like the us needs a new and improved fighter that can do everything even betterer than the f-35. for a mere two trillion dollars i'm willing to design one, and if you throw in another trillion i'll make it able to fly in a vacuum so the space force can get in on the action too This is called a Sixth Generation Fighter. There are several programs. US: -Next Generation Air Dominance -Next Generation Air Dominance (they have two with the same name lol) UK\Italy\Japan -Global Combat Air Programme France\Spain\Germany -Future Air Combat System Russia: -Mikoyan PAK DP China: -??? What is a sixth generation fighter? No one really knows, but everyone is excited. The main things talked about are: -stealth - but we already call that fifth generation -lots of computers - but we already call that fifth generation -drone integration - but the F-35 and J-20 are already advertised as doing that -AI - lmao -Optionally manned - lmao -fuel efficient engines - cool I guess, I dunno why you can't just stick them on anything -lasers - lmao
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Getting the impression fighter planes are a mature technology with only incremental gains being possible from now on, like tanks, but the MIC is trying to desperately maintain the idea that a major qualitative leap is still possible
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does anyone have the video of biden during the recent summit going to Xi to mumble something weird into his ear and Xi being completely weirded out? I can't find it. during their table meeting
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crepeface posted:https://twitter.com/li_dawei98/status/1726323319098781961?t=XZKRP7_e1QhWUy94LtVc8A&s=19
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Thank you for some reason YouTube refuses to give this in any search Probably a glitch. Couldnt possibly be getting buried
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:This is called a Sixth Generation Fighter. There are several programs. lol of course there is
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The talk about the new fighter started a year ago, maybe more, when several military people publicly stated how much rear end F-35 sucks.
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Lostconfused posted:The talk about the new fighter started a year ago, maybe more, when several military people publicly stated how much rear end F-35 sucks. hell, it started about a decade ago, though was renamed a couple times. It started in large part because the F-22 is getting old and will need replacements by 2030s. By 2022, prototypes of NGAD were already flying. it is very dumb that the air force has the name NGAD (EN-gad) and Navy has a distinct program called NGAD (en-JAD)
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ENGAD, so what
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Real hurthling! posted:lasers are so dorky Railguns are FTW because kinetics > thermal.
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:Railguns are FTW because kinetics > thermal. Nah, therm hits many more rats. Kin is really only good if you've got a bonus from whatever hull you're in.
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BearsBearsBears posted:So when will the F-35 finally finish development? When it falls to the first enemy missile in conflict and everyone turns with a grumpy face to Lockheed and demands an answer. Let me introduce you to ErGhad, I mean, NGAD.
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BearsBearsBears posted:So when will the F-35 finally finish development? They call it the F-35 because it will be done in 2035. Or maybe 2135.
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Have you guys considered, a common tank chassis with a banana and western jeans module? The Slavs have no chance.
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Looking forward to poo poo posting in my golden years about whatever next next generation fighter is still trying to be finished in the 2040s.
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BearsBearsBears posted:So when will the F-35 finally finish development? cant wait for the unofficial community patch to fix the bugs.
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FuzzySlippers posted:Looking forward to poo poo posting in my golden years about whatever next next generation fighter is still trying to be finished in the 2040s. im looking forward to posting about the f-35 too!
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gradenko_2000 posted:forums posters Zadok Allen and crepeface, please claim your prize for correctly calling that it was about gas: im so clever for thinking a war in the middle-east involving US proxies was about energy resources 
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Everyone's holding out until the F-35.5 with the OLED display comes out. Really no point in investing in the OG when the mid-life upgrade version offers 3 second faster boot times and better thermals.crepeface posted:im so clever for thinking a war in the middle-east involving US proxies was about energy resources 
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BearsBearsBears posted:So when will the F-35 finally finish development? After star citizen fully releases.
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People were wondering what a 6th generation fighter is. It's simple. Anything that looks even more sleek and sci fi than an su-75 felon. Ideally an actual X-Wing. It's more of a vibes and feeling thing.
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