SatorianHint: The WP is reknown for being at the far left edge of the political spectrum.
That’s not the impression I got.
And again: What would be center-left in your opinion? Where does your spectrum leave something like “People’s World”? On a same level as the WP?
Calling everything even slightly left immediately something far-left in an weak attempt to discredit it as loony is a cheap trick usually employed by bubbleheads like O’Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, Malkin, etc..
SatorianI’m not sure a far left publication like the Guardian is necessarily the last word on matters like this. That’d be akin to quoting the Daily Kos or the Huffington Post on US defense matters.
Far-left? What would be centre-left in your spectrum? Considering that their weekly contains articles from the Washington Post, it’d make more sense to compare them to that.
SatorianThe comms boss has changed in recent months from a German who spoke and wrote perfect English to an Italian whose English is less precise.
Yup, Wolfdietrich Hoeveler retired from EF GmbH and was replaced by Valerio Bonelli.
Also, I wouldn’t put too much emphasis on grammar and spelling being a bit off in casual non-investor or non-journalist correspondence.
SatorianI did not get it; what is it with that huge picture?
That picture has been discussed on here already. It’s a few months old and shows an EF-18G with an F-22 kill mark after getting a simulated kill during some exercise.
Not really worth much hubbub.
SatorianIt sure DOES show that the program is having more issues than LM and some forum warriors want you to believe.
No it doesn’t. All it shows is that Gates is bowing to political pressure to ‘play it safe’ & assume JETs ‘worst case’ 2 years of FURTHER delays are likely.
Where’s your evidence for that claim? Oh, right, you have none. It must be the political pressure of the “We want to pay EVEN MORE for the F-35 development” brigade. And it’s been said lefties were the Kool-Aid drinkers…
As for your claim of unit production costs: Yeah, awesome. Never mind that they achieved that by being severly late. Had they been forced to be on schedule with their LRIP lots, the cost would have been never near that. And you end up paying the increased costs those delays incurred. LM definitely deserves a pat on the back for that.
What ARE you babbling about? In fact the delays have been CAUSED in some part to pressure to meet milestones, causing airframes to be delivered (to the next stage) incomplete which in turn then took MORE time to finish later.
Your reading comprehension fails you yet again.
Indeed airframes haven’t been ready when they should have been. Had LM been forced to complete them on time, costs would have risen. Production is on budget because it didn’t have to be on time.
The reason you can flaunt the production costs being close to what they are supposed to is that they are delayed, which costs you money on the other part of the bill. Awesome achievement.
Also, for all your harping on about intellectual honesty you go about comparing fighters prices from different currency zones without considering PPP adjustment to derive their respective costs again. Where’s your much desired intellectual honesty in that?
Nonsense.
You seem to have no idea how international currency relations work. Do you want to claim ignorance or dishonesty?
Anyone still defending the way the JSF program is being run, and the leeway and sloth LM has been awarded, after another delay and cost increase as expected in the next budget as being just fine and claiming that everything is all dandy, deserves the title of “Black Knight”.
Sorry but even LM & its supporters know full well & admit to delays & cost increases that have occured BUT the reality that the program is currently (& has been for some time now) trending BETTER, not worse (& worse is what would have to be the case for FURTHER 2-2.5 years of delays & cost overruns).
As far as I’m aware, the only thing that has been trending better are those production cost of specific LRIP lots. And these have already been discussed above.
SatorianIf the test pilot isn’t credible in your book who is, some keyboard warrior or EADS? :rolleyes:
Third-party test pilot from an evaluatory team for a fighter purchase, allowed to freely speak his mind after a lengthy testing and DACT period.
SatorianVolume efficeiency is a ratio of actual volume within given dimensions.
For example, a sphere that fits in one by one by one meter of space, has a radius of 0.5 meters.
So, that same sphere has a volume of 0.52 m^3, while the volume of the cube within same dimensions is 1 m^3.
I thought it was volume per surface area.
SatorianGreat work Pfcem, but the most volume efficient body is a cube and the least aerodynamic one, at the same time.
Wouldn’t a sphere be more volume-efficient?
SatorianAs for ‘able to achieve and maintain speeds in excess of Mach 1.0 for extended periods of time without the use of afterburners’, the F-35 is most likely able to do that.
I’d wait and see how the F135’s bypass ratio figures into dry supersonic performance.
“Strike” is an adjective.
No. It’s either a noun or a verb.
No, the USAF/DOD & LM have the data (& test pilots have experienced it) that shows that a COMBAT LOADED F-35A has “subsonic acceleration is about as good as a clean Block 50 F-16” &
Turning at the higher Gs and higher speed portions of the flight envelope, the F-35 will “almost exactly match a clean Block 50 F-16“.
So when in turn a clean Blk. 50 about matches the F-35 and the F-35 about matches the F-22, then the clean Blk. 50 about matches the F-22, right?
What does that tell us?
That margins matter in fighter performance, and that statements of “about as good” are worthless.
AND in terms of air-to-air combat the F-35 will be 4 times more effective than legacy fighters.
And what are those terms behind this fuzzy marketingspeak? What’s the SI unit for that? How is it derived?
It also depends on the intellectual honesty of the beholder. To those that are intellectualy honesty the F-35 is plenty nimble, to those intellectualy DISHONEST is isn’t nimble enough.
Has the entire flight envelope already been tested and cleared?
SatorianAnd just what is that supposed to show?
It sure DOES NOT show that the program is having anywhere near as much problems as some want you to believe.
It sure DOES show that the program is having more issues than LM and some forum warriors want you to believe.
As for your claim of unit production costs: Yeah, awesome. Never mind that they achieved that by being severly late. Had they been forced to be on schedule with their LRIP lots, the cost would have been never near that. And you end up paying the increased costs those delays incurred. LM definitely deserves a pat on the back for that.
Also, for all your harping on about intellectual honesty you go about comparing fighters prices from different currency zones without considering PPP adjustment to derive their respective costs again. Where’s your much desired intellectual honesty in that?
Anyone still defending the way the JSF program is being run, and the leeway and sloth LM has been awarded, after another delay and cost increase as expected in the next budget as being just fine and claiming that everything is all dandy, deserves the title of “Black Knight”.
SatorianLOL
The only ‘turn-round’ will be morons like Sweetman admitting that things in the F-35 program aren’t (& neber were) as bad as they want to make them out to be.
I suggest you get your rose-tinted glasses with wrap-around straps, because you are still in a for a ride.
SatorianBS. US military spending is ONLY ~3% (~4% INCLUDING WOT spending – that’s right the US is bassicly devoting a wopping ~1% of GDP above ‘base’ defense spending to fight the WOT) of GDP. What IS moving the US fast toward bankruptcy is all this BS entitlement spending.
Never mind that it makes little sense to look at GDP when trying to find out what’s bankrupting a government. Hint: The GDP isn’t the US government’s annual income.
SatorianNo, supercruise is the term chosen to define/describe the KPP/capability.
The USAF/DOD/LM ‘changed the definition’ TO THAT, AT THAT POINT.
Yadayadayada.
“`Certainly,’ said Alice.
`And only one for birthday presents, you know. There’s glory for you!’
`I don’t know what you mean by “glory,”‘ Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. `Of course you don’t — till I tell you. I meant “there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!”‘
`But “glory” doesn’t mean “a nice knock-down argument,”‘ Alice objected.
`When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
Do I need to quote HUNDREDS of USAF/DOD/LM documents/official press releases and other official & unofficial comments? :rolleyes:
I’ll make it easy and be satisfied with a dozen official press releases that specifically state supercruise being M1.5+.
Satoriannever seen […] ages ago!
Non-sequitur much?
SatorianAnd you wonder why so many of us feel nothing but contempt for the average Euro and their world view.
What’s ‘the average Euro’?
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