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Old 09-28-2015, 05:44 PM
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All good jokes, but YOU dont have to pay the taxes to finance this pork belly folly
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...and pay...and pay...AND PAY...
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Well, in a sense we do, because our government has still the intention to buy three dozen or so of this silly bug. Considered that the Netherlands is a little smaller than the U.S., it still is a heck of a lot of tax payers money...
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Truedat....
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Good point PK..
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I read another article about the flying pig. No, not the WONDERFUL A-10, but the F-35. It had some comments from the USAF brass and reps from Lockheed Martin about how the F-35 got utterly waxed by an F-16D (two seater) carrying 2 external fuel tanks in mock dogfights. Oh, the F-35 was in "slick" configuration, nothing extra on it, and light on fuel load.

The F-16 had higher energy rates in every parameter of flight. It also out maneuvered the F-35, because the pig couldn't pull lead to get a shot when trailing. If it did, it lost even more energy and early guaranteed a kill by the F-16.

The Lockheed and USAF folks said that there was no objective to win, just to collect data.

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Interesting piece of reading from war is boring
On what officials have to say when opposing members of the public ask nasty questions about the F35. Quite sobering.

I read some calling the F-35 a flying bucket but he quickly corrected himself by saying he'd rather fly a bucket.
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Over at Google+ someone named the F-35 "Porkchop" which I find a terrific name for this crappy airplane. So from now on I'll call it the F-35 Porkchop.
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Annnd... The F-35 Pork Chop saga continues. This is real news and it actually becomes a little sad. When perseverance suddenly changes into something that looks more like stubbornness and fool-heartedness.
US Business Insider reports on the Pork Chop's latest setback.



This F-35 is in quarantine after it got rabies and almost started to infect other Pork Chops. The man in the foreground is monitoring its health but everyone is afraid it has to be put down.
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The headline on this thread is not as bizarre as you might think. I am in a local machinist's club, and a lot of the members work for a major defense company.
One of their biggest problems is "Aberrant Behavior" on all these smart systems, and they aren't laughing about it at all. The systems are as close to self-aware as you can get today, and they don't always do what they are supposed to do, much less what they have been theoretically "programmed" to do. Every system and interface now requires extensive testing to detect and diagnose this behavior, find out what is causing it, and come up with a cure. It has added another layer of difficulty to these new weapons systems, and it keeps the engineers awake at night, wondering what the next problem will be.
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