Posted on Oct 13, 2018
RIP F/A-18 Hornet: The Marines Are Retiring This Old Fighter To Make Room For the F-35
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Rest in peace F-18. Too bad secretary Mattis couldn't purchase more Super Hornets instead.. the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the Chevy Vega or pinto of the Air Services. Recently, they are all grounded due to a fuel system problem. The Marine Corps is getting rid of the Harrier and replacing that with the junk Strike Fighter. The F18 Super Hornet can still do an excellent job and some newer models are incorporating some of the technology of the new junk Strike Fighter. Others have told me that the F-111 was supposed to be the one platform fits all back in the 1960s and that never happened in the Navy went ahead with the F-14 Tomcat. Now the F-35 junk Strike Fighter and their separate platforms are now being shoehorned to take the place of the A-10 Warthog and the F18. This is not going to work. Pilots, soldiers, Marines and special forces are going to die before the Pentagon learns his lesson in the next War.
RIP F/A-18 Hornet: The Marines Are Retiring This Old Fighter To Make Room For the F-35
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Always hard to get rid of an old horse. Grounding of new aircraft is nothing new, lived through it many times with F-111s.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
SPC Mark Huddleston - Like Sopwith Camels with modernization would have served us in WWII. Or Deciding to buy WWII Sherman tanks to save money on Abram's
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
SPC Mark Huddleston Perhaps, but that was rejected, deal with it and embrace the new.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen The tendency to do that has been getting American soldiers killed for a long time. Taking away th 7th Calavaroes Spencers and giving them single-shot rifles as an example. US Military history is full of that kind of fatal mistake.
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30 year old F-18A's are not the only tools in the box. Also, the Marines are not the only ones to fly F/A-18's.
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The F-35 is getting fantastic kill ratios against everything but the F-22 at read flags and there is nothing else as either in the air that is as effective, in Anyone's air Force/ Why we would want to buy more of a two generation' ld fighter from the 70s that was designed to be a low cost substitute for the F-14 puzzles me , especially since the F/A -18can not handle the AF or the Marine missions requirements.
Do you have something against fighter pilots living though encounters with a capable enemy?
Do you have something against fighter pilots living though encounters with a capable enemy?
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LTC (Join to see)
No, I want Pilots to live but I also want the soldiers and Marines on the ground to live as well. We will see if we are being spoonfed propaganda in the next War. Secretary Mattis wants an 80% operational rate so that means goodbye F18. I have my bias against the F-35 because I've been following his development for 5 years. In the latest test, the A-10 was given an unfair handicap against the A-10 Warthog. That is what I'm more worried about the grunts on the ground surviving. The F-35 is being made to do the job of the Harrier, the warthog as well as the F18. In my opinion, it will not be able to do either of those three tasks very well. Again, I'm more worried about the troops on the ground calling for close air support.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a22118621/f35-a10-warthog-flyoff-pogo-report/
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a22118621/f35-a10-warthog-flyoff-pogo-report/
The Long Awaited A-10 vs. F-35 Flyoff Is Off to a Sketchy Start
The Pentagon wants to know which is the better close air support aircraft, but a government watchdog claims the testing schedule is too short and biased in favor of the F-35.
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LTC (Join to see)
If this story is correct, then I take back what I said. Okay maybe, with the right training, a pilot can do very well. I just have my doubts about closer support.
https://amp.businessinsider.com/f-35-vs-f-16-15-18-lost-beaten-flatley-comeback-2017-4
https://amp.businessinsider.com/f-35-vs-f-16-15-18-lost-beaten-flatley-comeback-2017-4
Here's why the F-35 once lost to F-16s, and how it made a stunning comeback
"When you first get in the F-35 and try to fight it visually, you immediately go back to everything you knew in your legacy fighter," which is a terrible idea.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
The F-35 is mostly replacing the F-16s. and the F/A 18th aand the A-10 i a diode issue in cost and numbers. So Do you want to enter defended airspace in a A-10 or an early 70s era fighter, of something that is many time more dearly. Without Aircraft serving in the role the F-35 is entered ed to replace A-10 can t not live long enough to get too their targets. also station g with the aircraft you propose means that if the enemy has serous air defenses you have ZERO air-cover at all.
https://www.f35.com/news/detail/f-35a-records-20-to-1-kill-ratio-at-red-flag-exercise
https://www.f35.com/news/detail/f-35a-records-20-to-1-kill-ratio-at-red-flag-exercise
F-35A Records 20-to-1 Kill Ratio at Red Flag Exercise | F-35 Lightning II
The official website of the F-35 Lightning II. The Joint Strike Fighter is the next generation fighter to support the US Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, United Kingdom and defense partners in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, and Turkey.
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