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A-10 is more like stolen valour. Most blue on blue kills, and very shady CAS effectiveness with minimal self defense capability.

Not really. US marines are a door smashing force, formally known as 'forceful entry'. Their entire philosophy is based around strike components as opposed to the Army that has both strike and hold components and are designed for much larger engagements. Largest MAGTF(marine) formation that can...

USN aviation's main goal is to establish and maintain naval supremacy. Secondary goal is 'operational' support for ground troops in a ground battle. On the other hand, Marine aviation's main goal is to support the marine infantry itself. So CAS and CAP missions over the marine infantry form a...

80% of the problems could've been avoided had F35 only had the A and C variants. It is Marine Corps variant that required massive compromises.

Flight Hour Data Year......Units.....Total_Time....unit annum(hr) 2010........................800....................... 2011........9.............2500.............190 2012.......38............5300..............73 2013.......73...........12000.............91...

Fair enough

Dec' 2021 Annual deliveries - 142 Total delivered - 756 Year.....Annual Rate...Total Units 2011...........9.................9 2012..........29...............38 2013..........35...............73 2014..........36..............109 2015..........45..............154 2016..........46..............200...

Yes, F35 is now officially overpowered. 2x Arrw + 2x Aargm-Er

Not for state run French firms. The French govt would rather make a loss than to buy german trains or british aero engines.

Because there is neither inherent capability of technology (which in france's case, they got at the end of ww2), nor a national will to put domestic projects into the fastlane. This means whenever India gets to complete a certain project, it often turns out to be outdated already. There's a...

I dont get the connection. But no, france is probably the most self dependant(within western europe)when it comes to fielding indigenous tech, even if it happens at a higher cost.

There's no 'siding' with China. You are either absolutely subservient to it, or you are not. The option India chooses will depend on who wants to let India be less subservient to principal partner and allow it enough autonomy so the politicians can face the public. But yeah, times are going to...

The reason being rapid growth. US/China economy ratio was 1.5 in 2019. ($21T/$14T) Within just two years, this ratio has come down by 10% In 2021, China rises to $16.6T, while US is at $22.6T, making the ratio just 1.35. It wouldn't take more than 6-7 years for China to take over the primary...

India will have to choose to side with US if it wants to survive. This isn't so clear right now. Things will be different 5-10 years from now.

Chris Bogdan, PEO of the F35 program born and raised in NY,US. He's as american as it gets.

No can do from US. S400 and F35 dont mix well.

I understand that, but the sheer amount of unsubstantiated wordcrap you have to tread through in this thread due to a special someone makes it hard to control a burst of laughter when an official study proves against it.

F-35 procurement cost(including spares, armament, training) and maintenance/operating costs as computed (includes inflation over next 30 years) by the Swiss Air Force technical team. F-35A procurement cost: CHF 5.07B ($5.48B) Average F-35A unit cost: $152M F-35A sustainment cost (30yr): CHF...

On a related note, the Swiss have also chosen Patriot SAM system against French SAMP/T for air/missile defense. @BON PLAN is awfully quiet. :D

This'll be hard to decide between F,E/A-18E and F35, since they already operate and have maintenenace capabilitites for F18A. However, if they are serious about Russia, then its a no contest decision for the F35.