As for the sound of modern jets, since my parents live near the Bourget airport, near Paris, where there's an international air show every two years, I'm quite used to see/hear them fly over and they're noisy af !
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 4 September 2020 09:17 (three years ago) link
TOMBOT to thread, kinda curious about his take on the f-35 debacle, where the money went, and if it's a good plane
― life is beauitul (rip van wanko), Friday, 4 September 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
I don't have a lot of good insight into how the F-35 went so wrong, other than collusion between parts of the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin to force the DoD to put all its eggs in one basket.
Here's a decent piece on what might ought to happen to avoid repeating those mistakes in the future: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-air-force-could-avoid-f-35-trap-47737
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 4 September 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35947/navy-f-a-18-squadron-commanders-take-on-ai-repeatedly-beating-real-pilot-in-dogfight
Fun read.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 24 September 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link