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    $2 Trillion and It Only Works Half the Time: An Attorney Just Applied Lemon Law to the F-35 — and Lockheed Would Lose
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    $2 Trillion and It Only Works Half the Time: An Attorney Just Applied Lemon Law to the F-35 — and Lockheed Would Lose

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    1. Separate_Football914 on

      The bestest of best plane according to our army!

      I kinda suspect that our forces had the bad tendencies of wanting the same toys as their neighbors and weighted the dice accordingly

    2. Kristopher9999 on

      I served in the military for almost 20 years. I remember back around 2007 era, there was lot’s of discussion regarding the F35’s capabilities in the Arctic. This was clearly before all the Trump politics made this such a hot button

    3. facetious_guardian on

      According to this article (which is just about a thought experiment, not an actual lawsuit), the problems are mostly (all?) software-related. Three points on that:

      1. Software is a relatively straightforward thing to fix aftermarket

      2. Accepting new software updates to military aircraft will require significant security audits, so even if they’re available, they make take many calendar months to accept

      3. I wonder how many faults here are a result of unchecked vibe coding.

    4. AdmiralAsshat69 on

      The Iranians shot one of these lemons down with a cheap interceptor. Maybe we should be investing in drones.

      We cannot waste our resources on purchasing obsolete technology from an enemy state, unless we’re about to declare war on elementary schools.

    5. Halouverite on

      This article is pretty fundamentally dumb because every point it makes is true of every fighter aircraft ever produced.

      Fighter aircraft are not akin to consumer cars, their automotive equivalent is an F1 car, which also has fucking terrible amounts of maintenance time relative to stand up performance. This is part of the cost of operating at the cutting edge of engineering capacity.

      This is true of a lot of military equipment (wait til you see what submarine in-service time is like).

    6. JackTheTranscoder on

      I’d be happier with domestic production of the Gripen combined with massive investments in asymmetric weapons we see used in the middle east right now (drones, hypersonic missiles, etc.).

    7. TheBannaMeister on

      Don’t worry guys, whatever plane we get you can be sure it will be completely outdated and ineffective by the time we get it