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| F-35 |
I never liked the F-35. The idea of dragging around a giant fan that only gets used for VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) seems like a really dumb idea. They should have built the thing to land on it's tail like a Flash Gordon rocketship. Yes, it would have been a trick, but with modern electronics and controls it should have been cheaper, lighter and easier than carrying around this stupid fan. Modern jet engines are plenty powerful enough to support vertical takeoffs. In any case we have a story about a couple of problems the F-35 is having with heat:
F-35’s Cooling Crisis: Design Flaws Fuel $2 Trillion Dilemma for Pentagon by Mike Fredenburg
Then again maybe I'm just jealous that I wasn't in on the development of all the fancy software that went into this machine.
Previous posts about the F-35. I was surprised there were so many.
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