Senators Ask Panetta For Estimate To Terminate JSF Program

[Guest]

Certainly. But will we establish a forward location where TAC Sams are still a threat in the pattern?

We already do.

Fight Club.

[Jimmy.The.Engineer]

It can be done...I've seen it happen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xvVUgZEXWM

That video is so fake. Everyone knows terrorists aren't Arab looking.

Stupid.

[JarheadBoom]

I spoke to a Marine Hornet pilot the other day and he pretty much said that the Marines do NOT want the JSF. It was forced on them for the reasons of "joint" but they all want the super hornet. As for LO, he said that the marines will treat the JSF just like a Hornet and it will be beat to shit in no time with lots of stuff hanging external. his flat out quote was, "You expect a bunch of Marines to walk around with booties on and be concerned with the RAM coating"?

The Marines will be concerned with what they're told to be concerned with. They'll also learn quickly (and probably painfully) what on the aircraft can be beaten into submission and what has to be handled like eggs... just like every other airframe the Corps flies.

The Osprey folks have gotten used to working on a finicky, delicate aircraft.

The Harrier folks have gotten used to working on a finicky, delicate aircraft.

I am certain that the USMC F-35 maintainers will get used to their new, finicky, delicate aircraft if they ever get them in quantity.