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Is F-35 going to be scrapped? Pilots say can't see out of cockpit
- Thread starter Grandluxe
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We need to save the drones for domestic use.:eek:Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
Same here. I am not some Code Pink anti-american pacifist or worse. But do we really need to spend more than the next 25 countries combined on defense, particularly since most of them are considered our allies?
And what real use is an ultra expensive next gen fighter plane anyway? It's too expensive to risk against an advanced air defense system. What we have now is already superior to anything else out there. And aren't 25 high performance drones superior to one manned fighter for the same or lower cost?
Quote from tomdavis:
The F-18, despite its upgrades, is still a 30+ year-old design. The F-22 program has been stopped. The purpose of sharing the F-35 with others is to get them to share the cost.
The F-18 is Navy, and the newer ones are going to be around a while. F-16 and F-15 are air force.
Fighter jets are not designed to last 30 yaers, and technology changes a lot in that time. We need new jets but I would like to ee the UCAV mature, then we wont have rear visibility problems.
That's interesting. I don't see that it would make sense though because the Canadian government wouldn't be buying that many planes. They would have to feel like they could sell some in the world market and compete against the U.S., France, Russia, China and I don't know who else. And, startup costs and thier technology lag would somehow have to be overcome.Quote from gwb-trading:
Bombardier with some other partners would love to get into the figher plane business in their home country of Canada funded by the government. Of course, it would require Bombardier to partner with some other companies.
Naturally they would need to have the government rescind the F-35 purchase to make their vision a reality - which is why they take every opportunity in the media & government to knock the F-35. This is all about a domestic competitor with no product trying to force the government not to buy an existing foreign product.
We better keep things stirred up in the ME or state side may be the only training and testing ground.Quote from PHOENIX TRADING:
We need to save the drones for domestic use.:eek:
I read a few months ago that new drone pilots are trained by having them follow cars down the freeway as if they were targets. I don't recall if these were U.S. freeways or where. But California seems logical.
Quote from pspr:
That's interesting. I don't see that it would make sense though because the Canadian government wouldn't be buying that many planes. They would have to feel like they could sell some in the world market and compete against the U.S., France, Russia, China and I don't know who else. And, startup costs and thier technology lag would somehow have to be overcome.
bombardier has made military planes before, and add Sweden, Brazil, Isreal, the EU (not just france) to the list of competitors. I have to wonder just how lucrative it can be at the lower end of the fighter jet market.
tech lags are easily solved by stealing