Posted: Dec 24, 2014 9:40 pm
Weaver wrote:
Now, as for the F35, this is a classic example of what happens when you try to make one universal airframe do everything - air supremacy, air-to-ground strike, STOL and VTOL and carrier and large runway. Lessons should have been learned from the F111 and F4 and other "one size fits all" aircraft - the reality is that it ends up doing nothing well, and costing way, way to much to do it. The program should be killed, we should buy more F22s for the air supremacy mission, and keep the A10s flying for the CAS mission for which it is uniquely capable.
In case you've never heard it a classic by the late Bob Calvert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWipIji35Cg