Words of Advice:
"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne
“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *
"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown
“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie
"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul
"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad
"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown
"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers
"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown
"Eck!" -- George the Cat
* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone
4 comments:
That's in a fighter-bomber role. As a pure fighter, the F-22 can carry six AMRAAMs plus two AIM-9s.
It looks like all fifth generation fighters have the "small bomb bay" issue. I was just reviewing the Sukhoi PAK-FA and the Chinese J-20. Both--like the F-22--have capacity for 4-6 AMRAAM-class missiles, plus a "heater" in each of their side bays. It seems to be the basic cost of stealth.
By the way, I loved the veiled Dale Brown reference in the article: "But the B-52 isn't the only *old dog* potentially in this show."
Time to bring back the last great air-superiority fighter: The North American F-86 Sabre.
The F-111 couldn't satisfy both the USN and USAF. What genius extended this failed "one size fits all" plan to multiple services for multiple countries?
3383, the hilarious thing is that the F-35A isn't even the same *size* as the F-35C (the Navy version). The Navy version has a longer nose and longer wings and bigger tail, because otherwise landing it on an aircraft carrier deck was impossible (the Air Force version simply has too high a landing speed to land on a carrier deck even with the tailhook wires!). And let's see, if the fuselage, wings, and tail are different, yet you're still calling it the same plane... ROFL! Shades of the F-18 Hornet versus the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, again two different planes with the same F-18 moniker!
So yeah, "one size fits all" decidedly did *not* work, they're just lying and calling it the same plane just to pretend it worked, so that one prime contractor gets both the Air Force and Navy contracts. What a grift!
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