(unless, of course, you're one of the profiteers)

http://www.cnbc.com/2014/07/31/how-dods-15-trillion-f-35-broke-the-air-force.html

that will be the eventual use for the Navy's variant.

Just wondering...

Yup,just defending Amurica.

just "defunding" Amurica.

Just bleeding the beast.

in this MIC boondoggle...too late to scrap the F-35...

CAN'T FIGHT.

The Burlington Bungle!

He loves those sweet sweet MIC jobs. They mean votes back home. He wanted that F-35 so much that he was willing to defend a plane that explodes on the runway. Sanders has been defending the F-35 for years:

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/24583-bernie-sanders-doubles-down-on-f-35-support-days-after-runway-explosion

....ba dum boom.

It sure beats us taxpayers paying for these flying death traps.

The Saudis bought F-15s. The F-15 is actually more expensive per-plane, and lacks the stealth characteristics of the F-35. In most other ways, however, the F-15 is superior. Payload, most importantly.

a better chance that s/he'll get the plane down without being killed by its bad engineering.

F-15s crash on a regular basis.

You sure this is the road you want to go down?

A fighter jet should be able to take off without a "boot up". Who the fuck thought that was a good idea?

...that the same sorry bastard who thought building a fighter jet that needs a video camera pointed at the tail so you can see who's behind you (this is no shit - it's the only way to see out the back) was a good idea, is the sorry bastard who thought making a jet so dependent on its computers was a good idea.

They'll just be sitting there, and sitting ducks btw, IF THERE COMPUTERS CAN'T BOOT UP!!!!

God, WTF.

And this is the dud they want to replace the A-10 also, one of its supposed multi-functions.

... once it was deemed it would be built, he worked to have it built in his state. You know, representing his consitituents and all that.

Here is part of that article:

"So, while Bernie Sanders is saying we should cut military spending to fund free college for everyone, his defense of the F-35 means that despite everything else, Sanders is still just a politician. Sooner or later, the F-35 will eventually be replaced by something even more expensive, while the F-35 joins the thousands of other unused fighter jets in the boneyard. But rather than lying to people and saying the program is already a done deal and that there’s nothing he can do, Sanders could stand by his principles and introduce an amendment in the next National Defense Authorization Act to strip the F-35 program of its funding. That remaining $700 billion could make college tuition-free for everyone for at least a decade."

Fighting to end wasteful military spending is honorable, wasting another $700 billion, or more, is not.

This remark is just wrong: " while the F-35 joins the thousands of other unused fighter jets in the boneyard." The F-15s, F-16s, F-14s and some older F-18s are anything BUT "unused". In fact, A LOT of them are in the boneyard because they've reached the end of their useful lives. They were usede in the many conflicts we've poured money into as well as used to keep pilots proficient even when not in war zones. Planes wear out. They CAN be refurbished, but of course, the race for more and fantastic capabilities dictates developing new designs. I personally think those endeavors are a race down the toilet, but that's the thinking. And still - with that one quote I lifted - saying unused is just plane wrong.

And who can forget Hillary's ardent stance against this boondoggle! I do trust she'll FORCE the bugs outta this thing by finding some conflict to employ it in.

Program. I wonder how many Lockheed Martin contributes to Sanders. He used to talk about auditing MIC's but now nothing about this anymore.

Hell, we could stage the collisions right over all those publicly funded stadiums!

Take off in an F-22 Strangler and die of hypoxia or sit on the runway in an F-35 Brood Hen and wait for the enemy to arrive.

You really made me guffaw with that. So funny!

Billions and billions for the MIC.

Thanks Uncle Bernie

n/t

It's about the $$$.

Wow

and is working on a patch. The patch should be ready for upload before the Air Force certifies the F-35 fleet.



Between writing gaming code, patch code for Microsoft Windows 10 and this, the Air Force may have to wait a little longer. But his mom says he understands the serious nature of having airplanes that can take off and land on runways and should have working compiled code shortly after school lets out in May.

He farmed out the FBI gig to his little brother.

But if it won't fly then that is a problem and someone needs to answer for it.

Or Linux.

working again.

that you think they use commercially available software on military aircraft. You're an affirmation.

I was hoping this was regarding the test against the A-10 Warthog that's in the offing. Six A-10s could have reduced the 6 F-35s to rubble before they got airborn!

... and that would be the end of the test.

They've been a familiar sight over Boise skies for a very long time and are currently deployed to the Middle East. It would have made for a convenient pairing of the two if timing had been a bit different. That's assuming the zillion dollar jets could get airborn..

... it's performance is much, much better than our so-called "congressional leadership" ...

... and they are costing us trillions and our country ...

rebuild the decimated military by pouring more $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ toward it.

First off, I didn't build bombs, bullets, or body armor. I did research on high tech comm systems for DARPA.

My old company, which is the same scale as Lockheed, started caring much more about middle management than the engineers building their products. It doesn't surprise me that we cannot make a jet that can fly these days. Nearly every engineer worth their salt left for greener pastures in recent years.

I saw these F35s flying regularly a few years back. I assumed they had things worked out.

How were they able to get that oddly shaped F-117 to fly using 1970's computers, but they have such a hard time getting all this to work?

The Marine Corps version is faring much better and will be deployed at sea next year.

https://news.usni.org/2016/04/25/marines-not-affected-by-f-35-radar-reset-software-glitch-fielding-still-on-track

with the billions of dollars they're throwing down the fraudulent military complex sewer?

Maybe they should be spending more time improving their ability to provide clean drinking water and decent jobs and less time on planes that will be obsolete in a few years anyway...

People are getting tired carrying around an plutocratic empire on their shoulders..

lives will be saved if they don't work. Contractors will still make money, the whole system will continue to function right up to the point where they actually start killing people.

And the terrorists will be happy because we are bankrupting ourselves.

This is a classic scam move. Mess the job up and then only partially fix it, demanding more money each time.

I'm sure the US's new flying IPhone will hold up well against things that actually work. They realize that enemies shoot back, right?