Aghast enough to do a single fucking thing about it?
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2025
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Aren't fighters dead?
Look, I like cool planes, but military scenarios where 5-500 drones are worse than a single mega expensive jet not already covered by existing planes/missiles seem... very rare.
Look at Ukraine's drone ops. I mean, hell, imagine if the DoD put their budget into that.
It’s going to be wild when gorillaz have to attack these billionaire warlords after society collapses. It’s going to take a great effort to over throw these people when they make their play to turn society upside down.
Aww, Trump got a new pet billionaire!
Your new name is mark musk 🫲🍊🫱
zuck is the new cuck
Is he the new Elon Musk?
If it is then I can't wait for the girls fight again.
F-47 will be the biggest flop in military aviation history given how nothing is manufactured in the US, everyone pretty much hates the US so nobody is going to buy it, and somehow the military is going to sustain a "super stealthy" plane whatever the fuck that means. Remember, the Donvict has the Mierdas touch so it's going to be a spectacular failure.
I'm sure that being actively hostile to education and science will be great for the development program though
F-47 is probably the greatest marketing move of all time by Lockheed-Martin. Just as public sentiment was sinking about the F35, couple recent accidents and boom they get handed a great distraction.
Whether or not they win the contract for the 47, it allows them to solidify their current contracts for the 35 for a minimum of 10 years. I think there was another accident just a few weeks ago and no one was talking about it because that aircraft is old news.
I mean like what are you going to do with the F-35 now? You don't cancel a plane over a high accident rate. Otherwise the F-16 and especially the F-14 program would have stopped in their first 5 years.
Plus at that point you paid 100 billion in RnD and probably several 100 billions in the production line. So you better get your money's worth.
That's 1700 billion all in!
fortune.com/longform/lockheed-martin-f-35-fighter-jet/
Oh I'm so used to ai generated journalism this is actually nice.
Iirc, according to previously released information about NGAD and F/A-XX, America’s sixth gen fighter programs for the Air Force and the Navy respectively (as they existed before trump’s second term), the jet is supposed to have a built in requirement that the fighters have a radar cross section ‘orders of magnitude’ smaller than f-35. This is in conjunction with better, longer range sensors and munitions with sufficient reach to take advantage of this longer range sensor capability. The idea is to outrange enemy munitions and sensors, and failing that, to avoid detection in the worst case scenario through stealth tech. That’s likely what they’re referring to when they say ‘super stealthy’, though it remains to be seen if that can actually be delivered upon, as this is still the development stage and nobody really knows if a development program will pan out at the beginning.
Lmaolmaolmaolmaolmao
At first i thought Zuckerberg crashed a meeting by arriving on a fighter jet
Entirely as believable a headline in 2025 but unfortunately the reality is less cool than that.
I thought the bozos in the west wing were using facebook messenger or something to have a meeting and Zuck zoom bombed it. I guess this is less stupid than that, but only marginally
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