Originally Posted by
MPN11
The article certainly didn't make pleasant reading. How much is ill-informed, or hyperbole, I cannot say ... but it sounds seriously dismal even if only part of it is accurate.
With Red Flag-3 (US only), now beginning, with two services, USAF and USMC, putting their respective F-35 models into action the results will no doubt be of great assistance to UK planners for their future decisions on the numbers and types, as the respective strengths/weaknesses of each model, and unit deployment/performance can be assessed.
With regard to the Times article, it is interesting to hear directly from the chiefs of staff who will be responsible for tactically employing these aircraft in any future conflict, and, from the men who will be out there fighting with the new aircraft and hoping to come back. This was from the recent previous Red Flag.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgLjNsB_hyM
Its a sort of ...pudding thing.