Im quite sure with all his contacts in the military Yeager is kept abreast of developments.

I’m quite sure that any “contracts” he had retired long ago.

In the meantime he has likely been sitting around and reading AVWeek chuck full of Wheeler/Sprey “expert” opinions, doomsday prediction “risks” from Gilmore, “We’ve already spent $400Billion/$1.5Trillion”, etc. If you truly want to know about the details of the program, you have to do a lot of digging & listening to presentations. Both of which he likely has never done given his one-line responses on Twitter.

Consider the fact that these military contacts will tell Yeager the truth that they wont tell the general public, for fear of reprisals from the Pentagon for not toeing the political line.

I am getting real tired of the “everything positive about the F-35 is PR & they’re too afraid to speak the truth” BS.

Who said can’t be built and what does that have to do with anything being said here?

Neither Yaeger have done.
He just responded to a question through his own twitter not through some magazine , even if him, differently by the most of us, would be naturally qualified for doing so.

Sorry that I was not clear enough.

“Neither should anyone count Gen. Yeager as an expert on modern air warfare.”

The “he” is addressed to anyone who says “Look what Gen. Yeager said!!! The F-22/35 must be a POS if he said so.”

I am not offering up myself as an expert in modern combat.

However, neither should he.

Would you trust a mechanic from the 60’s to work on your new Tesla?

Nice pic. The brightness (red) looked to suspicious to me. But if you say so.

Keep in mind that CF-05 is an SDD (ie “orange wire”) bird, not an operational one.

The red lightniong bolt is not a PS, it is CF-05.

The Japanese & Israeli ones are PS.

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My bad on his combat record.. he flew a few hundred hours in Vietnam too.

On the issue of the F-15, his last command of US forces ended in ’71, before the F-15 went IOC.

My point still stands, he has no experience with modern air-warfare and his calling the F-22 a waste of money just proves my point.