Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
The F-35’s Class A flight mishap rate at this point in its history is quite good compared to other aircraft at that point in their history!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLuxM5lg8Jo
“That’s Not a Jet, That’s a Virus” — What F-35 Pilots Said After the “Gripen” Hacked Their Data Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bujH0jbvRc
The F-35 was designed to take a few hits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_1LyUAOI4Q
An F-35 may have been hit by an Iranian anti-air missile. The plane and pilot survived, making it safely to a base in the Middle East. Stealth makes the F-35 harder to detect and hit, but not invisible. If a video given by Iran purporting to be the F-35 getting hit is real, then it looks like a smaller payload delivered by a relatively short-ranged infrared or electro-optically guided weapon, or even a shoulder fired missile. If a radar guided weapon targeted it, the plane would sense it and the pilot would be trying to avoid it. And if larger, longer-range weapons hit it, the plane would not have survived that size of payload.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEA-vXR3WgI
F-35 scored its first air-to-air victory against a piloted jet. They have shot down drones and cruise missiles before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5im1oct6Cw
The F-35 is vastly superior to the Gripen E. By comparison, the Gripen E is the budget choice. If the goal is to limit dependence on the mercurial United States, the Gripen is dependent on American parts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C096AkDu1IQ
Why Israel’s Adir Is the World’s Only Fully Autonomous F-35 Jet? Here’s Why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM9c3QJDk0U
Did Iran shoot down Israel’s F-35s? What would it mean if they did?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfE5_-vxm70
“The country’s air force has recommended buying the jets, but the outgoing defense minister said “the predictability of our allies” must be taken into account when making procurement decisions.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/portugal-rules-out-buying-f-35s-because-of-trump/
Unmanned drone technology is not yet able to replace the capabilities of a crewed plane like the F-35. Swarms of small drones have very limited ranges. Large drones will no longer be cheap and swarms would be too expensive. AI cannot yet fulfill the many tasks that a trained human pilot can.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-A_aF7lpm4