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F-35 Lightning II: News thread
Arrow- Posts : 3471
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Huge quantities of slow short legged aircraft to fight China in the Pacific.
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Agree. Very likely it won't even participate in a potential war with China. Ballistic missile will level any base it is deployed including carriers. With it's low Air to Air load, they won't be able to intercept even 10% of the drones that chinese will send.
But in the air it's gonna be a very dangerous plane for any chinese 4-4.5 gen fighter. They will try to avoid the fight as much as possible and go for the bases.
But in the air it's gonna be a very dangerous plane for any chinese 4-4.5 gen fighter. They will try to avoid the fight as much as possible and go for the bases.
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This plane is not yet fully functional and fails in many areas of its design specs... and it is horribly expensive to keep in operational service... the more of these things the better... nothing is going to bankrupt HATO like having 3,000 F-35s in service... 
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US returns to production of 20 F-35s per month.
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They are telling the G7 to ban Russian Paladium and Titanium... I wonder if they will follow through on the ban themselves...
F-35s use a lot of titanium.
Russia has already said bans on exports of Uranium and Titanium and Nickel are being considered... if the G7 bans Paladium and Titanium I think Russia would likely ban sales of all these metals and more... so Turkey and India and China are going to be buying up these materials and then making good profits selling them to the G7 nations that need them.
This will not only drive up the price of F-35s, it will also cause production delays... and energy problems for the US because it is unlikely Russia will sell what the US and EU needs in terms of Uranium fuel to any third party to sell on to G7 countries who need it.
The Chinese have lots of very interesting long range AAMs... even if their stealth is not amazing it will be pretty good from 150km plus distances... and no doubt they have the production capacity to make enormous numbers of aircraft and missiles... what will happen to the economy in the US when everything is focussed on making artillery shells and tanks and aircraft that are clearly no longer the best in the world, but even more expensive than before.
I hope they start making 200 a month.
F-35s use a lot of titanium.
Russia has already said bans on exports of Uranium and Titanium and Nickel are being considered... if the G7 bans Paladium and Titanium I think Russia would likely ban sales of all these metals and more... so Turkey and India and China are going to be buying up these materials and then making good profits selling them to the G7 nations that need them.
This will not only drive up the price of F-35s, it will also cause production delays... and energy problems for the US because it is unlikely Russia will sell what the US and EU needs in terms of Uranium fuel to any third party to sell on to G7 countries who need it.
The Chinese have lots of very interesting long range AAMs... even if their stealth is not amazing it will be pretty good from 150km plus distances... and no doubt they have the production capacity to make enormous numbers of aircraft and missiles... what will happen to the economy in the US when everything is focussed on making artillery shells and tanks and aircraft that are clearly no longer the best in the world, but even more expensive than before.
I hope they start making 200 a month.