<story><title>The F-35 Is a $1.4T National Disaster (2017)</title><url>http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-f-35-14-trillion-dollar-national-disaster-19985</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lajhsdfkl</author><text>&amp;gt;That being said, with all the problems the F-35 has, much like the Eurofighter before it, it might be no match for what another advanced economy could produce.&lt;p&gt;Given that the F-35 was built with the latest tech that no other advanced economy even has I have no idea how anything could be built in the next 10-15 years that will significantly outclass it.</text></item><item><author>philjohn</author><text>Our current adversaries are mostly insurgents - however, if you look forward at dwindling resources and nations doing the unthinkable and waging wars over them, then the F-35 makes more sense. With a complex and lengthy development process you&amp;#x27;re planning for the war after the next, not the current.&lt;p&gt;That being said, with all the problems the F-35 has, much like the Eurofighter before it, it might be no match for what another advanced economy could produce.</text></item><item><author>patcheudor</author><text>The F-35 program is an amazing thing in 2018 when every war in the last two decades has been mostly about ground insurgents.  This, taken with the fact that we&amp;#x27;ve had massive technological advances when it comes to drone warfare and the F-35 very much looks like a plane from the past, not the future.  It would seem to be much wiser to scrap the program and re-focus on drone based solutions but that&amp;#x27;s going to hurt someone&amp;#x27;s ego so it&amp;#x27;s likely the F-35 will continue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nordsieck</author><text>In a &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; war, it&amp;#x27;s not a question of which airplane would win in a duel, but which airplaine + crew is more cost effective at destroying the other.&lt;p&gt;Could F-35s take on 10x their number of F-16s? The answer is not obviously yes to me, particularly in light of the Yugoslavian kill against an F-117a.</text></comment>
<story><title>The F-35 Is a $1.4T National Disaster (2017)</title><url>http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-f-35-14-trillion-dollar-national-disaster-19985</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lajhsdfkl</author><text>&amp;gt;That being said, with all the problems the F-35 has, much like the Eurofighter before it, it might be no match for what another advanced economy could produce.&lt;p&gt;Given that the F-35 was built with the latest tech that no other advanced economy even has I have no idea how anything could be built in the next 10-15 years that will significantly outclass it.</text></item><item><author>philjohn</author><text>Our current adversaries are mostly insurgents - however, if you look forward at dwindling resources and nations doing the unthinkable and waging wars over them, then the F-35 makes more sense. With a complex and lengthy development process you&amp;#x27;re planning for the war after the next, not the current.&lt;p&gt;That being said, with all the problems the F-35 has, much like the Eurofighter before it, it might be no match for what another advanced economy could produce.</text></item><item><author>patcheudor</author><text>The F-35 program is an amazing thing in 2018 when every war in the last two decades has been mostly about ground insurgents.  This, taken with the fact that we&amp;#x27;ve had massive technological advances when it comes to drone warfare and the F-35 very much looks like a plane from the past, not the future.  It would seem to be much wiser to scrap the program and re-focus on drone based solutions but that&amp;#x27;s going to hurt someone&amp;#x27;s ego so it&amp;#x27;s likely the F-35 will continue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Theodores</author><text>The Russian development model has been better, with orders to India paying the bills. They started around twenty years ago on the kit they flaunted in Syria. I see no reason why this development model cannot win. We have pork barrel.</text></comment>