you know, you remind me of someone… in high school, we had a buddy who looooved mathematics.. throwing all sorts of formulas we weren’t supposed to learn about for a couple of years to come… unfortunately for him, while he loved mathematics, mathematics didn’t seem to love him, as whatever he did, he never managed to pass the class… in mathematics

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He has always tried to blind with science but is starting to lose it like the other F-35 bots….Lukos after finishing your degree I hope you have got a proper first job by now ;- )

Shame Lukos has changed his moniker again because now you can’t post his degree qualifications!

(BTW, what the fcuk has his degree got do with anything?….as if it makes his claims more worthy! :D)

The flaw in the F-35 is one air frame has to do different jobs for marines, navy and air force. The cost of $1.5 trillion isn’t worth it for what it does.

If Lockheed Martin has to start again it would have a separate airframe for the vertical take-off version for the marine F-35B, and better performing versions for the Air Force and Navy.

Lockheed Martin cannot admit this…..a bit like the banks that said they were too big to fail….we’re stuck with it and the tax payer as always will pay….but the F-35 is too expensive for what it is and for tax payers that is what matters.

Forget trying to overcome S-400 and S-500 air denial missile systems, counter-measures to any new system as always will be adopted in iterative improvements to counter at a much lower cost…..the point being it won’t cost as much as $1.5 trillion to do that!

Have I spelt out clear enough that it won’t cost $1.5 trillion to counter the F-35? (no degree needed to understand this fundamental flaw 😉

Because they cannot talk about its performance because key parameters were relaxed to make it meet the required criteria, they talk about the situational awareness, rubbish like it can see a rocket flare from 800 miles away, but so can mark 1 eyeballs!

And what will a F-35 do if it sees a rocket flare 800 miles away, pass on info to someone 800 miles? My answer is there is sufficient radar and satellite tracking that already does this and you don’t need to spend $1.5 trillion to achieve this non-achievement ;- ) which has no practical purpose other than another PR puff to showcase the F-35’s amazing ability to see a rocket flare from 800 miles away, which anyone case see with the naked eye!

Its low visibility does not make it invisible to IRST and its huge F135 engine can be tracked….so when they say all aspect low visibility air frame I would say, what have you found a way to hide 43,000 pounds of thrust? 😀

Brilliant, Moggy. One of my great motoring bugbears and you have neatly dealt correctly with every permutation.

The only drivers you omitted to mention were those driving in poor to bad visibility with either no lights on or only parking lights on. To save electricity I suppose!!;)……

I have been told some people don’t put on their lights (they think) to save the battery!

Tony sans T

Phew ! I’m re-assured.

So am I! (I doubled checked!).

Tony,

You appear to have been truncated/cut off in your prime/abbreviated/less than your former self/a diminished person – if you get my drift.

I am seriously worried. Why are you now Tony and not TonyT ? Perhaps you are not one and the same person ?

I sense the onset of a campaign: “Bring back TonyT”, “TonyT is nearly innocent,” etc.

I think we should be told.

Hello John,

Just to reassure you I definitely (last time I checked ;-)) haven’t been cut off in any way! It’s always been just Tony without the T….

I am sure the wholly innocent TonyT is still around somewhere and will be back soon!

Perhaps he hasn’t had a chance to post for a while….I know I can go months without posting if really tied up…; -)

Sorry to hear of this Bob….losing a best friend is a big blow especially to go at his relatively young age.

Best mates are hard to replace…and I hope you get over your loss soon.

Hello Buitreaux, any news from Argentina with Kirchner going what the election results might mean for funding for the FAA? Thanks,

Surely he’s the exact opposite of a lame duck. With no prime ministerial ambitions he can do whatever he likes (and persuade his party to accept) with no worries about the next election?

Moggy

Nah, he’s demob happy having had a good run as PM…..he’s thinking about lovely dinner parties with the Chipping Norton set….it’s been a while but he can have Rebakah Brooks for Christmas dinner again now she’s been cleared…cough…cough….and talk about her nice few millions pay off (together with a new job) from Rupert Murdoch for her trouble to take the “hit” for him.

It’s like end of term but five years too early for him….the others are jostling for the top spot now….George has got his bods in every department (didn’t reckon 3 million on tax credits would vote for him anyway…turns out quite a few did vote tory!)….Teresa May may deserve it but can’t see her getting the support.

….as for Boris he’s got plenty of chances to muck it up and there’s plenty of skeletons (a whole graveyard full at least…well done Boris, keep your pecker up 😉 in his cupboard mainly of the Bill Clinton variety,…but times change and people don’t get so het up about things like that anymore….at least here, can’t say that for say America who still have almost half the population still believing in talking snakes (talking to Adam and Eve) and believing the world was created 6000 years ago in 7 days etc.( 6 if you don’t include the day he rested…only trouble is they got the order of creation slightly mixed up in Genesis….I forget which was first the sky or earth or something :D).

In similar vein isn’t it appalling how quickly the review of the Lords has been announced after the current government was embarrassed?
If nothing else it comes across as petty and revenge based….

Snafu, what’s happened here is the Government tried to slip through important legislation in a sneaky way using Statutory Instruments that would have hit hard three million people in April by withdrawing tax credits to those can least afford it because they earn the least in the country.

While getting rid of complicated rules brought in by Brown is a good idea, George Osborne is so out of touch he doesn’t understand £1500 (peanuts to him) make a big difference to someone earning very little.

(Don’t even get me started on that complete t**sser Ian Duncan Smith! Living in a grace house (and not paying a penny on it) on an estate owned by his rich in-laws and moaning about scroungers not paying for anything (the irony!) and poor people being poor because they want to be!:D)

Statutory Instruments are delegated legislation meaning they are not debated or scrutinised and can’t even be amended as can “normal” bills that are presented to parliament to be enacted.

The Tories voted down Statutory Instruments during Blair’s time and are now crying when they have it done to them!:D

Put through a full bill that can be debated and tweaked a bit and it would have passed.

Now the Tories will have to water down the tax credits arrangements anyway and bring them in over time to soften the blow on three million people earning the least….a miscalculation that will hurt George Osbourne in his bid to be Prime Minister (Dave is a lame-duck after announcing he is going….should have kept it under his hat for a while ;- ))….Boris will be chuffed (Boris’s policy is simple: Boris No.1. Fcuk everything else including UK. That’s it!)