Small Scale Military Headquarters

Link: http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-f- ... 1714712248

Better write-up than many of the initial reports:

http://arstechnica.com/information-tech ... ole-story/

Editorialized garbage is out there in abundance nowadays, not easy to sort through the nonsense and find the decent articles.

-Kevin

Well, seeing as the F-35 is a done deal, one way or another, guess the US and many other countries are stuck with it.

Time will tell how "sucessful" it is, but it does seem over priced, and under performing.

Too big to fail, at this stage.

Update:

" The mock combat between the F-35 and the F-16 was publicly reported by Aviation Week in April, at which time Lockheed Martin's F-35 lead test pilot David "Doc" Nelson told Aviation Week, "The door is open to provide a little more maneuverability." The combat maneuvers were the first time the F-35 was put into a dogfight-like situation. “When we did the first dogfight in January, they said, ‘you have no limits.' It was loads monitoring, so they could tell if we ever broke something. It was a confidence builder for the rest of the fleet because there is no real difference structurally between AF-2 and the rest of the airplanes.”

F-35 program Director Rod Crieger told Aviation Week the flight "was an early look at any control laws that may need to be tweaked to enable it to fly better in the future. You can definitely tweak it—that's the option.""