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Re: Pentagon's vaunted F-35 earns lousy review from test pilot in secret report NewsGuy - Unlimited Usen ..
Jess Lurkin (NiceGuy@happyness.com) 2015/07/04 10:42

"Bob (not my real pseudonym)" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in
news:avbfpategckldjl5j9km7ruu1q6kd0cn19@4ax.com:

> On Fri, 03 Jul 2015 19:11:29 +0000, Charles Lindbergh
> <spirit@stlouis.invalid> wrote:
>
>>Not a big surprise.... but still disappointing.
>>
>>Pentagon's vaunted F-35 earns lousy review from test pilot in secret
>>report
>>
>>http://fxn.ws/1FYt9Nd
>>
>>original story here:
>>
>>https://medium.com/war-is-boring/when-is-the-f-35-not-a-dogfighter-when-i
>>t-s-convenient-2fb1f233f42
>

> clearly of a bygone era,' Air Force Lt. Col. Pete Zuppas, then in
> charge of the 35th Operations Group in Japan, wrote in an official
> 2007 op-ed."
>
> They said that about the F-4 Phantom - until Viet Nam came along.  At
> least the F-35 has a gun...

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> What we need are more A-10s - cheap, indestructible, beautifully
> ugly and capable of ruining Achmed's day with both engines tied
> behind its back.
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Hear! Hear! This was obviously spoken by a light bird who had no
idea how the soon-to-be politically correct bammy military would
regard the Warthog. They all toe that idiot's "red-line" now.
Save the U.S.!  ANYBODY other than ANY dimoRAT in 2016!

Thanks for posting the quote, Bob.

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