Sorry for the last post - THIS is the most idiotic set of comments for the week

Huge spin, via L. Thompson.

Radar cross-section is a complicated calculation that varies depending on the frequency of a radar and the aspect in which a plane is viewed, but with less reflectivity than a bird from most directions, the F-35 will make it impossible for defenders to complete all the steps in a “kill-chain” necessary for successful interception.

Well no. Still curious why Forbes risks their reputation by providing a place for this kind of poor analysis.

The F-35 is an export-friendly, narrow-band (X-band/Ku-band) mostly nose-on low-observable aircraft that needs the F-22 to do the heavy work.

The F-35 will get killed because a variety of sensors well outside of the its limited X-band/Ku-band ability will cooperate over the network to help superior combat aircraft and superior surface-to-air threats to target and kill it.


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-Time's Battleland - 5 Part series on F-35 procurement - 2013 
-Summary of Air Power Australia F-35 points
-Aviation Week (ARES blog) F-35 posts (2007 to present)
-U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) F-35 reports
-F-35 JSF: Cold War Anachronism Without a Mission
-History of F-35 Production Cuts
-Looking at the three Japan contenders (maneuverability)
-How the Canadian DND misleads the public about the F-35
-Value of STOVL F-35B over-hyped
-Cuckoo in the nest--U.S. DOD DOT&E F-35 report is out
-6 Feb 2012 Letter from SASC to DOD boss Panetta questioning the decision to lift probation on the F-35B STOVL.
-USAFs F-35 procurement plan is not believable
-December 2011 Australia/Canada Brief
-F-35 Key Performance Perimeters (KPP) and Feb 2012 CRS report
-F-35 DOD Select Acquisition Report (SAR) FY2012
-Release of F-35 2012 test report card shows continued waste on a dud program
-Australian Defence answers serious F-35 project concerns with "so what?"
-Land of the Lost (production cut history update March 2013)
-Outgoing LM F-35 program boss admits to flawed weight assumptions (March 2013)
-A look at the F-35 program's astro-turfing
-F-35 and F-16 cost per flying hour
-Is this aircraft worth over $51B of USMC tac-air funding?
-Combat radius and altitude, A model
-F-35A, noise abatement and airfields and the USAF
-Deceptive marketing practice: F-35 blocks
-The concurrency fraud
-The dung beetle's "it's known" lie
-F-35's air-to-air ability limited
-F-35 Blocks--2006 and today



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