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Trump touts secret new weapon: ‘What we have is incredible’ – Orange County Register
In the past week someone must have taken Donald Trump--stable genius-- behind the woodshed for a whupping with a fraternity paddle. Miraculously, days after he shot-off his mouth about his dislike of endless wars, even paraphrasing Eisenhower's famous military industrial complex speech of 1961, Trump has made a one-eighty and become a virtual used car salesman for the nation's biggest defense contractors. Too bad he hasn't the foggiest notion what anything is used for. "It's clear that the president likes to boast about military capabilities and doesn't have the tightest grip on the details."
Arguably topping that list is the long-troubled Lockheed F-35. The Trump administration gave a bundle of F-35s fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates in-return for recognizing and playing nice with Israel. Somewhere along the way, slick talking aircraft spokesmen from Lockheed have managed to fill Trump's head with Star Trek-like fantasies about this "clusterf**k" that has taken decades to produce. Arguably the best interview on how an aerial thoroughbred stallion (on paper) turned into a camel designed by committee was given by no-other than the chief designer of the F-16, Pierre Sprey. (see below) Just don't tell Donald Trump.
Donald Trump:"You can't see it. You literally can't see it. It's hard to fight a plane you can't see."
As Pierre Sprey colorfully explains, aircraft invisibility is largely a ruse. Only one person in America-- occupying the Oval Office-- believes it to be a Romulan Cloaking Device. In 1999 during NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, a then highly-vaunted F-117 Nighthawk was shot-down using WW-II era radar (radio detection and ranging) equipment and obsolete missiles. In 2018 at the Berlin Air Show, embarrassed Lockheed officials kept the F-35 only on static display after the Germans gleefully said they had tracked the F-35s flying over for the airshow for hundreds of miles. Those darn Germans are smart.
The Designer Of The F-16 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is - Digg
In the past week someone must have taken Donald Trump--stable genius-- behind the woodshed for a whupping with a fraternity paddle. Miraculously, days after he shot-off his mouth about his dislike of endless wars, even paraphrasing Eisenhower's famous military industrial complex speech of 1961, Trump has made a one-eighty and become a virtual used car salesman for the nation's biggest defense contractors. Too bad he hasn't the foggiest notion what anything is used for. "It's clear that the president likes to boast about military capabilities and doesn't have the tightest grip on the details."
Arguably topping that list is the long-troubled Lockheed F-35. The Trump administration gave a bundle of F-35s fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates in-return for recognizing and playing nice with Israel. Somewhere along the way, slick talking aircraft spokesmen from Lockheed have managed to fill Trump's head with Star Trek-like fantasies about this "clusterf**k" that has taken decades to produce. Arguably the best interview on how an aerial thoroughbred stallion (on paper) turned into a camel designed by committee was given by no-other than the chief designer of the F-16, Pierre Sprey. (see below) Just don't tell Donald Trump.
Donald Trump:"You can't see it. You literally can't see it. It's hard to fight a plane you can't see."
As Pierre Sprey colorfully explains, aircraft invisibility is largely a ruse. Only one person in America-- occupying the Oval Office-- believes it to be a Romulan Cloaking Device. In 1999 during NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, a then highly-vaunted F-117 Nighthawk was shot-down using WW-II era radar (radio detection and ranging) equipment and obsolete missiles. In 2018 at the Berlin Air Show, embarrassed Lockheed officials kept the F-35 only on static display after the Germans gleefully said they had tracked the F-35s flying over for the airshow for hundreds of miles. Those darn Germans are smart.
The Designer Of The F-16 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is - Digg