Great stuff, love the Mirage 2000D

Told a Russian friend of mine your idea and his first reaction was “Didn’t we lose enough men in Europe to make it easier for the west… now you want some more of our guys to die in the east to make the Pacific easier too? How much Russian blood would you have liked to have seen spilt?”

I hope your Russian friend realizes how much the allies did for his country during WW2.
Stalin never opened up a second front to stop the fall of Western Europe and he never sent fighters and tanks to Great Britain when we faced invasion.
The USSR did not make it “easier” they helped make it possible to win in Europe, as did the North African campaign, the battle of the Atlantic, the strategic bombing of Germany, and the defeat of Italy to name a few.

Hitler and Stalin should be blamed for Russian loses.

Indian, mate I can’t remember who it was, I think it was the russians, but i know someone made a cruise missile that had switch blade wings mounted on top of the missile, and they flicked around after being shot out.

Sounds like the Chance Vought BGM-110 which lost the USN competition which produced the Tomahawk.

[QUOTE=bring_it_on]i dont get yur point..but if u are trying to suggest that the f-35A should be scrapped and the f-35C be adopted and reconfigured instead then the result would most likely be the f-35A since there is a considerably high percentage of commonality between the varients with the CV having better low speed handeling and added weight

Good point, what I’m trying to say is that any talk of cancelling STOVL JSF would mean loosing an entire capability which cannot really be replaced by any other platform.
As you say CTOL JSF is the baseline for both STOVL and CV variants, but I’m suggesting that the buy of STOVL and CV should be increased to reduce the unit cost.

In my opinion the program can only be called a success if all 3 variants are put into service.

Always lots of talk about cancelling the STOVL JSF to save money.
Wouldn’t it be better to cancel the CTOL airforce JSF?, I know it’s the cheapest, but plenty of countries operate carrier capable FA-18s from land bases.