http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/donald-trump-now-asking-for-impossible-magic-fantasy-je-1790421607
about the F-35 fighter jet. Last week, he said the F-35 program costs have gone
appears to be a physically impossible fantasy plane. God help us.
capabilities to the F-35:
Donald J. Trump
Based on the tremendous cost and cost overruns of the Lockheed Martin F-35, I
have asked Boeing to price-out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet!
2:26 PM - 22 Dec 2016
One of the reasons the F-35 is so expensive is because the variant built for the
United States Marine Corps, the F-35B, is capable of hovering, along with the
ability to take off and land vertically like a helicopter. To make an F/A-18 do
space for a cool-air lift fan, like the F-35B has, to avoid melting every single
to design an entirely new plane.
it nearly invisible to radar. The F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet, with a shape inspired
by its F/A-18 C/D Hornet predecessor, is not nearly invisible to radar. It has
so, you would have to change the shape of the plane entirely. Which would make
it not an F/A-18. It would make it something else.
It would make it an entirely new plane.
An entirely new plane from the ground up.
An entirely new and costly weapons system.
Not an F/A-18.
The F-35 program is a complete nightmare, and Donald Trump somehow managed to
imagine something even worse.
What.
stealth-ier F/A-18 Super Hornet at one point, but it appears not to have been
good enough to keep it out of the scrap heap. When we first saw it, we guessed
one of the main stealth features of the F-35 is its internal weapons bay, which
hides missiles and bombs from enemy radar. That would still be an issue for the
the F-35, as the F-35 needs to be able to dart in past enemy radar and attack
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