This is another F-35 story. I know you’re probably thinking “when will this end?” and all I can say is: when the money-pump runs dry.
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All the unbuffered error messages
This is another F-35 story. I know you’re probably thinking “when will this end?” and all I can say is: when the money-pump runs dry.
I am really on the fence about this one.
Shiro Ishii goes right in the book next to Josef Mengele; a “failed intellectual” in the description of William Shirer (The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich) who noted that many of Hitler’s nihilistic genociders were, like Hitler himself, academics and philosophically-inclined people who veered off the normal track and careened into the dark woods.
Back in 2017, [I am tempted to add, “when I was still naive and optimistic”] I posted a bit about “operators” I spotted in pictures of the “rebels” in Libya.
My recent post about F-35s rapidly re-oriented toward the topic of “flying weapons systems that might actually work” so I’d like to speculate a bit. Any of my speculations are informed by some of the excellent SF (C. J. Cherryh, Joe Haldeman) and my experience with computer networking.
Stealth is one of the current most secret military technologies. There have been experiments with making just about every military weapon “stealthy” that can be, including the Lockheed Sea Shadow, AKA “The Stealth Fail-Boat.”
Maybe I should start a trend: when I’m sad or lonely, I can just google “F-35 problem” and I’ll be laughing until it hurts in no time.
I’ve mentioned this before, but I was careful to bury the story within another story [stderr] because I felt that the whole story was questionable.
This is one that, I admit, never occurred to me, either. The fact that it did not is profoundly embarrassing. Ready for a little F-35 bashing?
Mikey Weinstein, of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, wrote an excellent open letter to the US Air Force Academy, pointing out that they’re reaping the consequences of allowing christian nationalists to pack the Air Force leadership.