Pentagon Needs $500 Million More To Finish $1.5 Trillion Fighter Jet

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Not that high, but yeah if the US stopped spending out the ass on defense projects the spending power in the economy would crash. Clearly showing how Capitalism is a superior system that only needs an invisible hand to keep it working.

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There isn't a gulag big enough for all the people responsible for this scam.

If you wanted to know more about how shit it is, particularly when compared to contemporary warplanes, here's the Aussie report:
ausairpower.net/jsf.html

this.

dude with that money we could've sent people to Mars AND fix world hunger !
wtf is going on here ?!

the most facinating part is that its not even an original aircraft, they didn't build it from scratch, they bought the blueprints from Russia, its a Yak-144

with all that fucking money you would expect them to build an anti-gravity spaceship

$1.5 trillion doesn't really mean anything. The value of money is make-belief.

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$1,500,000,000,000 does not mean anything actually, the resources could go anywhere

Fucking hell were you hit on the head

Then there shouldn't be any problem with giving it all to the proles, then. :^)

$1,500,000,000,000 != resources

You can value getting a blowjob from your mother for $500,000. That doesn't mean your mother is an actual resource, but just a social contract that people believe in.

Will you shut the fuck up do you even realize what America could do with fucking One Point Five trillion US Dollars?

We don't even have Universal Healthcare because people in the government say it's too expensive!!!! There is literally enough money going towards this one dinky jet that it could house every single documented homeless person in America and perhaps more over. And yet people within our government are telling us, "Noooooo health care that every other first world nation has, you don't get that!"

Don't do this money means nothing shit it's laughable

You could stop being a fucking moron and it wouldn't cost you anything.

On top of the fact, any of it could have been used to help curb climate change in any possible way. Jesus Christ

I earn $110k as a software engineer. It is a stressful job, but I can guarantee you there are those who work harder, more meaningful jobs but earn a fraction of what I earn.

Oh, you were baiting

Just because you throw money at something does not translate to "resources." You believe monetary value is something God has set in stone.

No I was telling you that $1,500,000,000,000 is $1,500,000,000,000 and this jet is a waste of money. Sorry that you got confused.

What's that got to do with the price of bread?

In the Great Depression you could have a stack of 4,210,500,000,000 paper marks that could buy you just loaf of bread. It is all fiat nonsense that changes values.

Who made you this stupid

Who made you this religious

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Where do you work? How much money do you earn from your job?

Fuck imagine the things you can do with all that

I dont work

Knowing how much one point five trillion US dollars amounts to, and the potential applications it could be used to fund or invest in. Rather than wasting it on a jet that doesn't work.

See, simple

Pretending to be me, but you're right

Turns out Holla Forumss kike caricature is actually your average autistic software engineer.

oh, of cource
money capital doesn't mean shit
money is *neutral*, amirite?

gods, it's not even ten years after financial crash, and faggot already tries to preach that money doesn't matter…

Actually the F35 is a fairly solid plane, it's almost modular. They want to be using these for a very long time. The amount of money they've spent is preposterous but don't act like it's not a good investment.

Oh yay, a new plane we don't need more fuck tons more expensive than other nation's planes that do the exact same thing, is going to go on wars for the rest of the century in the middle east that also cost heaps of money

color me purple I'm in love

blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/07/14/pentagons-big-budget-f-35-fighter-cant-turn-cant-climb-cant-run/

warisboring.com/one-analyst-predicted-the-f-35s-s-dogfight-failure-50a942d0cf8a

pogo.org/blog/2014/02/heres-what-60-minutes-didnt-tell-you-about-the-f-35.html

thefiscaltimes.com/2016/03/15/Why-F-35-May-Not-Be-Combat-Ready-Until-2022

Let us not forget the aforementioned wars will be fought against countries that do not have a military navy, and after all air defenses, military airports and warplanes get destroyed by allied ships and naval aviation, as with Gaddafi's - assuming there are any to destroy in the first place.

tl;dr "democracy" is exported only to countries defended by baby seals

the only good thing about it is its impressive payload for its size different radar and IR detection systems render it useless

I don't know why everyone is sperging at you, money's power is only as strong as the society it functions in desu

That's true but this doesn't stop the fact that right now we really could have used that money anywhere else

we can't though, it's in human nature for there to be suffering, have you ever heard of entropy?

:^)___

Trillions of dollars spent on wars and weapons, yet there is no money for water systems, healthcare and education.

The whole point is that the money should have been spent keeping the people fed, clothed, sheltered, and cared for, not spent so we can fight another multi trillion dollar war over
>muh sand people

google fictitious capital. we are all well aware of what you are saying and incorporate it into critique of capitalism

And the very same people talk about inefficiency of Planned Economy and evil Bolsheviks shooting innocent managers for sabotage and corruption.

Calm down. It's not Yak-144. It was a bit unbelievable, so I checked. It's Yak-141.

The very fact that it still costs immense amount of money to build is enough to execute every shareholder of Lockheed and gulag their families.

It's not cost-effective. My bet is it will be slightly better than a plane that costs 20 times less money.

It is like the Bradley Fighting Vehicle all over again. Hilariously, this is an idiotic attempt to save money by having only one airframe do the work of damn near every small aircraft in the military. You simply cannot combine an F-15, an F-18, and a Harrier. It is fucking stupid to try.

This reminds me of when the Navy mandated that the A-6 and the F-14 be replaced by the F/A-18 despite the fact that the old F-14 was still a much better air superiority fighter and the ancient A-6 was a superior strike aircraft. When are these nitwits going to figure out that complexity is a good thing?

It won't. It will be worse, because that cheaper plane was actually built specifically for the task that it performs.

What good is a cutting-edge fighter jet when a drone can do half the things the jet is made for and at a fraction of the cost?

tfw the american public wont put that 500 mil towards arms and fucking kill the bourgs and politicians.

yeah its literally worse than its specialized predecessors, another classsic case of systems analysis deskriding faggots trying to develop a "swiss army knife" weapons system that is good at everything on paper, but actually sucks at everything in reality

google "f-35 hypoxia" if you want to lel, and thats just the tip of the iceberg

they wont because they are all a bunch of REMF faggots that are about as far away from combat as you can possibly be, also its not really profitiable to make something good anymore, so i guess you cant all put it down to stupidity and autism

Yeah, it's capitalism. Could capitalism actually end up destroying the military industrial complex that it built by forcing the branches to buy increasingly useless shit?

More likely than not, yeah.

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Oh the memories.

For those who missed this goodness, in which capitalists attempt to design a infantry vehicle, watch this:
youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA

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MY COUNTRY IS AMONG THOSE PAYING FOR THIS SHIT WHILE RUSSIA WILL LET YOU HAVE THE BLUEPRINTS, TRAIN YOUR OWN MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL, DO YOUR OWN UPGRADE RESEARCH PROGRAMS AND EVERYTHING ELSE

FUCK THE F-35 IN PARTICULAR

In order for a drone to work it has to be able to communicate in real time with its controller. That means an uninterrupted sattelite link over long distances, and satcom has a number of limitations. In particular, high levels of radiation in the upper atmosphere due to things like solar flares often interrupt signals.

HF and UHF have obvious problems such as a vulnerability to jamming. Even with the frequency-hopping that JTIDS performs, enough electromagnetic energy can disrupt the signal, and tuning radio frequencies is much more art than science.

I doubt that I have to tell you how even short-term interruptions in control can ruin a mission. Having a human inside the machine eliminates these problems, since he is capable of directing the aircraft without communications at least for a short time. Spot jammers and broad frequency jammers provide little help against an aircraft with frequency-hopping data links AND a human inside it. Instead, it just tells everyone on the other side where the jammer is like Frodo putting on the Ring.

Completely? Unlikely. There are both internal and external threats that will destroy contemporary US once it will become sufficiently vulnerable.

For example, the rest of the world might refuse to cough up money and American pyramid scheme financial system will go belly up, which will unavoidably cause some kind of Civil War (I'm using the word in broad sense; for example, I consider dekulakization to be Civil War too) that will re-shape US either into Socialist or Fascist state.

Oh, yes. I forgot how US forces everyone (practically at gunpoint) to buy F-35 and scrap their own designs. It's glorious.

That's 2010. I remember Australia being … pensive about necessity to increase funding a few years back, so it should've went up quite a bit.

I know the state shouldn't exist but just look at the Sukhoi Su-35 super flanker it's just so beautiful.

It is a fantastic aircraft. Now, if only it could be fitted with JTIDS and AIM-120Ds like an F-15 can.

das it fam, das it

good taste,
but the su-47 is a step ahead.

its the second most beautiful aircraft ever, after the Northrop F-20 tigershark which sadly never went into production.