………:D:D:D

Scooter, March is going to be a horrendous month for a rabid F-35 fanboy like yourself. I suggest you go away and hide for a while.

pcfem, that’s got to be the dumbest response I’ve ever encountered on this forum, I’m embarrassed for you, and hence will not comment further.

According to the current plan only 1% of testing will be done before they start building production JSF’s.. now that’s confidence or idiocy …:eek:

I wonder what %age of testing will be complete after a 2 year slip:

The likelihood of difficulties in the program is the subject of debate. The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) cited a potential 27-month, $13-billion slip last March, based on an independent assessment sought from Naval Air Systems Command. The Pentagon commissioned a Joint Estimating Team (JET), which predicted a two-year slip and $15-billion SDD overrun.

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=dti&id=news/DTI-JSV.xml&headline=Debate%20in%20Washington%20About%20Real%20Cost%20of%20JSF

Hmmm…..I wonder if the Pentagon & NASC are in cahoots with Sweetman…help scooter, help!!

No airforce other than the US has actually commited to buy the aircraft, so to state “Air Forces which chose the plane” could be construed as stretching the truth in some lights. It might, again i say might, turn out that the F35 doesn’t get purchased by anybody but the US, very unlikely but stranger things have happened at sea..then where are you left with your assertations re the aircraft?

More likely, however, is that nations will significantly cut their export orders (which in turn will raise unit costs), then you have to ask ‘How effective is the F-35 as a force multiplier?’, will nations feel comfortable using the F-35 as an interceptor or counter-air fighter? – I think not.
This in turn is good news for all upgraded bad-ass 4G+ fighters ’cause they will not only price themselves back into the market, but will be seen as necessary to ‘supplement’ the F-35.

Sorry, I missed one option out:

(d) Boeing- who believe the F-35 is a flying dustbin.

I believe USAF, RAF and a host of other Air Forces who believe in the capabilities of the Lockheed Martin F 35 and has committed their future strike force to the same. I believe the countless scientists and researchers working for them (The Airforces and their tech evaluation committees etc) over any single journo however good his reputation. 🙂

So the answer is b. 🙂

ante_ are you Obama’s speech-writer?

I believe the growing army of detractors, both civilian & military and politicians & civil servants of several governments tearing their hair out at massive cost escalations, delays & performance issues, with only an LM brochure to soothe their frayed nerves.
I choose A. But hey I’m an optimist- supplant moon with JSF:

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

Yeah, that’s the way science and arguments are done: Claim something, present no proof or evidence, and then tell everybody else to do their own research.

It’s not like you just blindly jumped on a bandwagon or anything. :rolleyes:

Maybe he’s a String Theorist.