And you thought $88 Million Was A Lot To Waste on NASCAR?

[unhappycamper]

reference: http://www.democraticunderground.com/11784346

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/05/08/361791/us-f35-jets-unable-to-escape-radars/

US F-35 jets unable to escape radars: Aviation Week
Thursday May 08, 201405:47 PM GMT

US warplanes, under the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, are incapable of escaping Russian and Chinese radars, a report says.

“The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter... is not, in fact, stealthy in the eyes of a growing number of Russian and Chinese radars,” the Aviation Week recently reported.

The report said the F-35 is not even effective in “jamming enemy radar.”

The US Department of Defense is spending “hundreds of billions of dollars” for a “fighter that will need the help of specialized jamming aircraft,” the Aviation Week stated in its report.


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Why would we spend a quarter of a billion dollars for a plane that needs an expensive jammer aircraft for survival?

We are spending our future into the dirt with this and other POSs.

[GeorgeGist]

1. Greed!

[TekGryphon]

2. As a rule, I dislike "news" sites that reference reports they refuse to link

I tried searching for Aviation Week F35 radar and all I got was a bunch of copy/pastes of this article all over the fringe news sites.

[jakeXT]

5. I've found the quotes on dailybeast by the same writer who writes for aviation week

This column also appears in the April 28 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/28/new-u-s-stealth-jet-can-t-hide-from-russian-radar.html

http://aviationweek.com/defense/opinion-jamming-needed-against-agile-radar-threat

[nyabingi]

3. We gotta keep the profits

rolling in for the military hardware manufacturers and keep some conflict going to justify the expeditures.

[TRoN33]

4. Words has gotten around that pilots from USAF

Has alleged that F-22 is superior in every performance parameters over F-35. Superior in stealth, flight performance, and less susceptible to enemy jamming while F-35's avionics has gotten fried by F-16's radar jammers.