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Sputnik: 'Su-35 Can See F-35 All Right': Military Expert Says US Jet 'Too Complex'
The US’ fifth generation F-35 stealth fighter is too expensive and will become less and less invisible as new and more sophisticated radars come along, Russian military expert Dmitry Drozdenko told Sputnik.
Too Complex
“The F-35 is a very complex system and, as such, it has lots of holes, bugs and other things, and it is very difficult to debug it. Like other problems, all this is because it is an excessively high-tech aircraft," Drozdenko said.
He mentioned the problems the F-35 has had with its radar-evading coating and the life support system for its pilots.
“The Americans tolerate this plane because it’s a very big and expensive business with contracts running into trillions of dollars. While they keep making the F-35as, the Americans are modernizing their 4++ generation F-18s and F-15s trying to bring them up to par with Russia’s Su-35,” he noted.
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WNU Editor: An interesting Russian view on the F-35.
Yep, and no one is impressed with your junk
ReplyDeleteWhat should he say?
ReplyDeleteAs always. Thank you for your input Lori.
ReplyDeleteWhat Lori says is a good point. Consider the price tag of the F35. A unit is like what, $75-80mn..about twice the price tag of the Russian SU35. Is the F35 really twice as good? The US cannot and must not allow companies to be so inefficient. Cost overruns like in the F35 program have to be investigated. It looks to me like cronyism. Where is the market efficiency in those companies? Why are the CEOs not held responsible for endangering air supremacy, a key aspect of US power and survival? Who talked us into such a complex fighter jet that doesn't deliver from all we can see so far -and it's been years of shitstorm in this F35 program - and on top seems to be a system that cannot be maintained in a prolonged war as it's dependent on so many intricate parts (the SU35 less so).and we know that we only need the f35 against parity powers like China or Russia which would always be a long war. So wtf is this program about other than ruining US supremacy?
ReplyDeleteJust asking, I really want to know.
ReplyDeleteAnd the B-52 keeps getting more effective.
The F-35 must really be good for the Russians to whistle so loudly in the dark.
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