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Subject: Re: Donald Trump Now Asking For Impossible Magic Fantasy Jet
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On 22 Dec 2016 19:49:34 -0800, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
wrote:
>http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/donald-trump-now-asking-for-impossible-magic-fantasy-je-1790421607
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>about the F-35 fighter jet. Last week, he said the F-35 program costs have gone
>appears to be a physically impossible fantasy plane. God help us.
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>capabilities to the F-35:
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>Donald J. Trump
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>Based on the tremendous cost and cost overruns of the Lockheed Martin F-35, I
>have asked Boeing to price-out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet!
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>2:26 PM - 22 Dec 2016
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>One of the reasons the F-35 is so expensive is because the variant built for the
>United States Marine Corps, the F-35B, is capable of hovering, along with the
>ability to take off and land vertically like a helicopter. To make an F/A-18 do
>space for a cool-air lift fan, like the F-35B has, to avoid melting every single
>to design an entirely new plane.
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>it nearly invisible to radar. The F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet, with a shape inspired
>by its F/A-18 C/D Hornet predecessor, is not nearly invisible to radar. It has
>so, you would have to change the shape of the plane entirely. Which would make
>it not an F/A-18. It would make it something else.
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>It would make it an entirely new plane.
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>An entirely new plane from the ground up.
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>An entirely new and costly weapons system.
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>Not an F/A-18.
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>The F-35 program is a complete nightmare, and Donald Trump somehow managed to
>imagine something even worse.
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>What.
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>stealth-ier F/A-18 Super Hornet at one point, but it appears not to have been
>good enough to keep it out of the scrap heap. When we first saw it, we guessed
>one of the main stealth features of the F-35 is its internal weapons bay, which
>hides missiles and bombs from enemy radar. That would still be an issue for the
>the F-35, as the F-35 needs to be able to dart in past enemy radar and attack
Didn't Boeing already try this with the [X]F-32 'Basking Shark'?
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