Foxtrot Alpha: This Is Why All That Fighter Jet Testing Is So Important
We’ve said more than enough about all the problems with the F-35 Lightning II, the jet that’s supposed to be the next backbone of many of the world’s air forces. Seemingly endless testing, endless fiddling, with weapons that don’t quite work properly yet. Well here’s what can go wrong without some of that.
Even something as seemingly simple as dropping a bomb or firing a missile isn’t simple at all (not to mention any moral or ethical quandaries). Are the aerodynamics wrong? What about the weight balance? When the computer receives the instruction to release the weapon, how does it do so? And once the release button is hit, what actually happens?
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WNU Editor: Ouch!!!!
