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Interesting collection of comments at the end of this F-35 advertorial.

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tee · 21 hours ago
Oh Great, so now we are going to buy more "Mistake Jets" that will cost millions more per aircraft to fix , once they ,and if they ever can get it to work as Advertised. Considering the Helmet doesn't work, still hasn't landed on a carrier yet with the new tail hook, Software is YEARS behind schedule. The standards have been lowered so the Aircraft can meet the minimum requirements just to name a few minor Problems.
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SFC Pappy · 20 hours ago
Why the big celebration over the successful drop of a GBU-31 JDAM?? A munition that is nothing more than a Mk 84 2000 pound dumb bomb with a GPS targeting package strapped on it. Only input from the aircraft is a GPS coordinate via a keypad or touch screen. Then the release of the bomb clamps to drop the munition. No laser, radar, radio, optical or even a precision dive bomb run. Heck countries that still use the decade old A-4 Skyhawk can and to drop this thing. Yet the "Experts" in Washington think this is so great that a used car salesman gets them to buy more.
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JCross · 20 hours ago
So, we're accelerating LRIP buys? What are we to do with the few hundred planes we're getting here in total since they won't ever be useful in combat? Use them as more modern trainers?
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blight_ 111p · 19 hours ago
They're captives for future upgrades, though I suppose they could be used as trainers, static models, drones...
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USGOV · 19 hours ago
Fortunately Lockheed doesn't build planes like Boeing.
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@E_L_P · 18 hours ago
Ramp up production when there are no effective working mission systems or robust testing of TR-2 hardware with Block 3 software. Not a good idea.

As for the Amphibs: I look forward to a demonstration of an on-board swap of the $27M each F-35B motor.

The last comment by the General makes no sense. Again because of the lack of proof of a go-to-war jet.

Rate the above article as mostly: spin.
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Big-Dean · 16 hours ago
The F-35 mafia PR machine is at it again
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Mike · 15 hours ago
This site is loosing credibility with articles like these. Every time Lockheed spends some advertising money, you see a JSF fluff article on here.
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oblatt1 · 7 hours ago
The funniest thing is that the next LRIP aircraft wont even be able to fly. They have junked major parts of the hardware and the new software isn't ready yet..

As the JSF descends further into farce they are desperate to make as many as possible before it's shut down.
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superraptor · 6 hours ago
Sad to see that Sec of Defense Hagel now also has joined the F-35 Dunning-Krueger crowd and is not firing his pro-F-35 USAF generals
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Weaponhead · 5 hours ago
So it was acquisition malpractice to start buying "production" jets before testing them, what is different now. Even the A model is only half tested and the B & C models have even less. No OPEVAL, no working weapons, no go to war OFP... It is hard to believe that we continue to run this as a blank check program in an era of dramatic budget reductions.
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Lance · 2 hours ago
I agree so we buy more planes who every several month get grounded by faults in the plane. All the billions wasted for this and we could have bought more F-22s and upgrades for F-15s with the same money and have much to spare.
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Daniel · 28 minutes ago
I don't think I've ever heard such nonsense on a board before... the big deal here isn't the munition dropped as it's been dropped by all sorts of planes before... its the fact that we can now get into enemy territory undetected ( remember it's stealth ) and drop about ANY munition and get out again. Posters here appear ignorant of the fact that the technology that went into this plane and the F-22 had to be invented first. That costs money, and lots of it... So perhaps you should consider that before bumping your gums complaining about things. Or how about this, if you know so much please feel free to do better at a cheaper cost..... yeah, I thought so...
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YepHeJumped · 21 minutes ago
From what I've seen most of the people on this forum do not like the F-35, and I also noted these people also know nothing about the aircraft, but what they have read in badly written articles and forums...this is just a symtom of the overall decline of American civilization...I've watched our country slip further into the Abyss year after year...it's those damn hippies they started it all! Muahhahaha!