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[Maikeru]

A couple of important developments.

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[pipaster]

Two UH-60s from the 101st division in a night time collision. Will be interesting to hear more as the investigation reports their initial findings.

 

[Bellum_Romanum]

Only about half of the F-35 fighter jets are considered mission-capable, well below the target of 65%

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Is this real? Or a deliberate attempt to misinform their potential adversaries into actually believing in this supposed sorry readiness state of a ver important strategic asset in such an important time for the US in its attempt to maintain their global dominance in all domain. I just really find it difficult to accept that American military is this shit despite the many public pronouncements of China competition and the need to ramp up their forces at all levels.

 

[Bellum_Romanum]

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@latenlazy your expert opinion. why F-135 always having problem.

@BoraTas

Solid Snack (comment user)
6h ago

I don't understand how a platform can have so many documented malfunctions and problems and still be shilled like the second coming of Jesus... But yeah even the last string of bad news won't change people's minds... They will say things like :

'but this happens to all fighter programs'

'But everybody is buying it'

'but mah stealthhhhhhh'

'Just wait for block XX it's a gamechanger' it'll be great in XX years'

...

...Yawn...

 

[CMP]

Is this real? Or a deliberate attempt to misinform their potential adversaries into actually believing in this supposed sorry readiness state of a ver important strategic asset in such an important time for the US in its attempt to maintain their global dominance in all domain. I just really find it difficult to accept that American military is this shit despite the many public pronouncements of China competition and the need to ramp up their forces at all levels.

I don't believe them in the least. I think their definition of "mission-ready" includes fighters in the queue for extremely minor maintenance. Nothing that would prohibit them from flying and fighting. I think this is a CIA PsyOp campaign to trick China into initiating military hostilities.

 

[Overbom]

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@latenlazy your expert opinion. why F-135 always having problem.

@BoraTas

That's a F-35 program, not an engine-specific, problem. Its not the engine's fault that:

"The original program engine specification allocated 15 kW [kilowatts] of bleed air extraction to support system cooling requirements, and the F135 engine was designed, tested, and qualified to this specification with a level of margin available for future growth," Schmidt wrote.

"During the final stages of initial aircraft development, air vehicle cooling requirements grew to exceed planned bleed air extraction."

"To provide the necessary bleed air, the engine is required to run hotter, and the program is realizing the effects of this through an increase in operating temperature, and a decrease in engine life, which is driving earlier depot inductions and an increase in lifecycle cost," the written testimony adds.

 

[SlothmanAllen]

A couple of important developments.

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This seems like it is going to be an impressive weapon once deployed! ~2,800 km + in range with two missiles per launcher is quite the punch.

 

[CMP]

This seems like it is going to be an impressive weapon once deployed! ~2,800 km + in range with two missiles per launcher is quite the punch.

Don't worry. It will cost the US 5x to 10x as much as a Chinese hypersonic missile with a similar range.

 

[gelgoog]

That is the Dark Eagle. It is supposed to be put into service in Germany and probably Japan.
But so far the whole launcher hasn't worked successfully.

The systems in Germany would be in range of a lot of Russian nuclear launch sites. Russia will likely respond by putting the Rubezh into production. Basically a Yars first stage with an Avangard upper stage.

 

[siegecrossbow]

Is this real? Or a deliberate attempt to misinform their potential adversaries into actually believing in this supposed sorry readiness state of a ver important strategic asset in such an important time for the US in its attempt to maintain their global dominance in all domain. I just really find it difficult to accept that American military is this shit despite the many public pronouncements of China competition and the need to ramp up their forces at all levels.

It is a weasel word basically. F-35s are multirole fighters capable of aerial combat as well as precision strikes against naval targets. Let's say that one of the planes had some issues with mounting anti-ship missiles. Technically that's not fully mission capable. But that does not mean that the plane is incapable of carrying out missions! If we apply the same readiness criteria to other air forces then they'd be lucky to reach F-35 levels.