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Old 4th Mar 2017, 08:50
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A_Van
 
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Brat,

Your passion towards F-35 is respected and appreciated. Would be stupid to object that it is a nice, "advanced" (whatever it means) and the best (assume F-22 is out of the scope of comparison) a/c of its kind in operation/service at the moment.

However, I suppose there are many folks "here" used to strict formulations and definitions. And some of your statements seem not so solid from this standpoint.

E.g., concerning Concorde, Tupolev Tu-144 performed its maiden flight earlier than Concorde, had higher cruise speed (only about 50-100 km/hr, but still..), flew higher and had higher passsenger capacity. However, it also represented a much greater commercial failure than Concorde, and its regular flights lasted for about two years only as its costs ineffectiveness was enormous.

As for F-35, you wrote: "The F-35 is indisputably in advance of anything similar being developed by any other country at the present time."

Words such as "being developed" make your statement disputable, in turn. I do not know much about the Chinese stuff, but the Russian one is quite comparable. It is not in the serial production, but being developed and tested, indeed.

It is even more questionable to consider F-35 superiority over modern IADS's and other networked infrastructures it is supposed to deal with. The whole F-35 programme lasts for extremely long time. All the techniques and technologies (and even specific implementations and solutions) it is based on were carefully studied some 15-20 years ago by those who later implemented "opposing systems".
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