Samurai faith

SLD is always worth a chuckle when they try to sell the troubled F-35. Here, they use Japan's latest defense white paper as an example of sound F-35 faith.

In other words, the new fighter aircraft needs to be able to effectively deal with high-performance fighters, as well as being equipped with sufficient performance to deal with cruise missiles and the ability to carry out its operations effectively in network-centric-warfare that has those functions as constituent elements.

Well, good luck. Interesting since communist appeasement types in the Bush administration refused to sell the F-22 to Japan.

I wonder if these 2010 Lockheed Martin claims (similar to claims held for years) will hold true?

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Quantum leap like the TV show (marketing)? Or quantum leap like physics (and what the engineers say is real)?