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F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash

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291 points Michelangelo11 | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 11:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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cyclecount ◴[27 Aug 25 13:31 UTC] No.45039429[source]▶
These planes are huge pieces of shit. No country should be spending money buying these from the US / Lockheed Martin.
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Yokolos ◴[27 Aug 25 15:34 UTC] No.45041127[source]▶
They're really not. You're basing this on misinformation and propaganda. The only reason why nobody should be buying them is because the US has become an untrustworthy partner. Otherwise, there is no credible evidence of any kind that I've seen showing the F-35 is anything other than a great fighter jet.
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1. harshreality ◴[27 Aug 25 18:54 UTC] No.45043525[source]▶
Its stealth is good. Its EW and Avionics are probably good... now, after a decade of production, and with Block 4 around the corner.

As planes, they were terrible when introduced a decade ago, and mediocre now.

Too much functionality was promised too soon without adequate project management. Instead of modularity being the design philosophy for the NGAD, and shoehorned into the F-35 during production, it should've been the design philosophy for the F-35A/C from the start.

Too many compromises were made to make the three variants share a similar design despite radically different missions.

The F-35B should never have existed.

The parts commonality numbers say it all. Initially projected to be 70%, but when it neared production the actual commonality figure was 25%. I haven't seen that broken down, but I bet the F-35B is a large part of that.