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And ALL of this in the past week, lmao.
meanwhile the dei woke gays are the ones currently fixing the problem the failson cishet white guys created by taking m$ kickbacks to use their vulnerable software then mandating that the built-in m$ virus protection was insufficient and shelling out more money for a rootkit company to have control over critical systems
This is so true. The intelligence community literally pushes Crowdstrike on companies that are “of national security importance”. You’ll have a goon monitoring your company FROM THE OUTSIDE call you up about the latest cyber attack that hit you and pushing this. So of course you buy because they know better right?
All of those companies are hosed right now lol
Is boeing all that's left?
The other aerospace companies are primarily defense oriented
Well, I guess Bell/Textron would count too
Ball is primarily jar-oriented
Oh cool so Boeing is gonna introduce fucked up parts to several unrelated manufacturers planes, air travel will never be safe again
Does the US Military ever think about logistics? Great, now you can move a squad further, faster. But now you have two helicopters strapped together, plus the tilt system, and all of that needs to be repaired and maintained, you need to move parts and replacements. You've at minimum doubled the amount of ground maintenance your aircraft needs after every flight. And while that aircraft is being serviced for either twice as long or by twice as many mechanics it's not in the air, it's not ready to fly, so to keep up the same number of missions you need twice as many of them, or twice as much maintenance logistics.
Does this read? I really think that with vundervaffen like the F-35, even if they could do everything they say, the US is setting itself up to starve due to the long, very complex logistics trains. The F-35 in stealth carries half the payload of an F-16 and needs several times as much maintenance, which means that any airfield or carrier is going to have to do vastly more maintanence on twice as many sorties to keep up the intensity of F16 raids. Which means if anything in the supply chain breaks they're gonna get real fucked real fast. And carriers only have so much space in them, so it's not like you can just add more planes, hangars, and fields. It seems so obvious to me that if the US actually tries to use these things the logistics network will collapse within days or weeks.
The US Army highly logistics driven and its probably true for other individual branches (maybe not the air force). Its the MIC that keeps making wunderwaffen because thats the most profitable. All of those faults you listed are profit for the MIC. Extra ground maintenance is a private contractor making $300K to only fix one system on one plane.
The F-35 was designed to save money by replacing +3 different fighter jets with 1 platform. The result is 3 different jets that share a shape and frame but literally nothing else.
Consider this though, the Valor looks really cool.