Well, I’m sure it’s not a mystery to some people, but when I saw this video on Military.com, I scratched my head wondering: “Is this a new SkunkWorks project or am I having Terminator flashbacks?”
Let’s put it this way…when the JSF gets canned, at least Lockheed has a fallback.
– Christian
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What a perfect way to airdrop specops troops in a bullet resistant canister with a chute……. pretty cool and I rarely say that : ) RM
I wish Lockheed would develop new music for their demo films Ours is obsolete early 80's stuff. The Russians updated theirs to heavy metal.
Awesome. Now to be a *real* military contract we have to spend $40 billion dollars developing it, produce three prototypes and cancel it.
Yus
Something to bear in mind when watching this is that it has taken twice as long to beat the Taliban as it took to beat Hitler.
So far.
The military is this great big system… a machine, who's purpose it to maximize/optimize its ability to suck money out of the economy. That's what it's there for. That's why the the Raptor is manufactured in 44 different states… and although it looks like it's creating jobs, it's similar to the "breaking windows" scenario. It doesn't create net value. It makes you poorer.
So um… just be aware of what you're looking at here. The target of this isn't some Evil-Beard living in a cave, or the Martians or whatever – it's you. It's your money.
What's wrong with the JSF? Why would it be canned?
The anti-defense crowd will try to kill the F-35 for all sorts of reasons. Despite the fact that we need the F-35 more than ever now that F-22 production has been halted far too early.