Pentagon’s Big Budget F-35 Fighter ‘Can’t Turn, Can’t Climb, Can’t Run’ -- David Axe, Reuters
The U.S. military has grounded all its new F-35 Joint Strike Fighters following an incident on June 23, when one of the high-tech warplanes caught fire on the runway of a Florida air base. The no-fly order — which affects at least 50 F-35s at training and test bases in Florida, Arizona, California and Maryland — began on the evening of July 3 and continued through July 11.
All those F-35s sitting idle could be a preview of a future in which potentially thousands of the Pentagon’s warplanes can’t reliably fly.
To be fair, the Pentagon routinely grounds warplanes on a temporary basis following accidents and malfunctions to buy investigators time to identify problems and to give engineers time to fix them.
But there’s real reason to worry. The June incident might reflect serious design flaws that could render the F-35 unsuitable for combat.
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My Comment: The above 60 Minutes Report is "somewhat" brutal .... an even more brutal report is from the CBC.
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A mate of mine joked that the only way you'll ever get to see the F35 actually fly, is in the video game Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4...
He's probably right.
And I can bet you that on those video games the F-35 can turn, climb, and run.
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