And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Current contractual unit price is below that of an F-18 Super Hornet. Yes there were overruns but supersonic steath STOVL fighters with the kind of data integration and situational awareness that the F-35 brings to the fight was not ever going to be cheap.
F-35A - Conventional - Air Force F-35B - STOVL - Marines - For landing on amphib carrier as shown F-35C - Carrier Variant - Navy - Folding Wings, beefed up landing gear
Amazing what you can do with $3bil, no?
ReplyDeleteCurrent contractual unit price is below that of an F-18 Super Hornet. Yes there were overruns but supersonic steath STOVL fighters with the kind of data integration and situational awareness that the F-35 brings to the fight was not ever going to be cheap.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe all F-35s have VSTOL capabilities. Am I wrong? How much for this model?
ReplyDeleteI think it's the F-35C that's slated for Navy/Marine will be VSTOL
DeleteF-35A - Conventional - Air Force
DeleteF-35B - STOVL - Marines - For landing on amphib carrier as shown
F-35C - Carrier Variant - Navy - Folding Wings, beefed up landing gear
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ReplyDeleteEver the cheapskate, I wondered what its fuel consumption is in the hover. Any ideas, anyone?
ReplyDeleteIn the immortal words of pepe LePeuw: Le yawn.
ReplyDeleteCalm, clear, flat ocean, windless day.
Call when they do it at night, in Sea State 4, with 20-knot gust crosswinds.
Then throw in battle damage.
Gonna need a lotta rescue helos to service those birds, while they last.