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Subject: F-35 news collection of week
SlowMan    10/26/2009 5:18:30 PM
- Pentagon affirmed the finding of an earlier study that F-35 is two years behind schedule and would cost "billions more". < link >
- UK has cut its planned F-35 orders from 138 to 50 citing the "out of control" F-35B cost. Now the second carrier will only field helicopters.
- Obama has surrendered on F136 alternate engine program issue and will sign the defense budget bill with it in. < link >
 
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SlowMan       10/27/2009 10:45:43 AM
- Israel wants to buy F-35B so that they would still have fighters up in the air in case their air base is attacked. Price to be announced in the next two weeks. < link >
 
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SlowMan       11/4/2009 9:59:39 AM
Israel gives up on integrating Israeli weapons and additional fuel tank(CFT??) on Israeli F-35 due to cost. The new price estimate is $130 million a copy. Israeli MoD wants to delay F-35 purchase by two years to aim for lower cost, while the Israeli Airforce wants orders to be placed now for first delivery by 2014 as scheduled. < link >
 
 Similar article about possible Israeli F-35 purchase delay. The estimated price in this article is $140 million a copy. < link >
 
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kensohaski       11/7/2009 3:25:48 PM
Then slap an extra nickle on the federal excise tax for tires.  Big deal!
 
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SlowMan       11/8/2009 1:33:56 PM
Peter Goon and Carlo Kopp of Ausairpower declares F-35 to be a non-5th gen fighter. < link >
 
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Hamilcar       11/8/2009 2:34:15 PM

Peter Goon and Carlo
Kopp of Ausairpower declares F-35 to be a non-5th gen fighter. <link >
ROTFLMAO.
 
 
 
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gf0012-aust       11/8/2009 2:45:11 PM

Peter Goon and Carlo

Kopp of Ausairpower declares F-35 to be a non-5th gen fighter. <link >

ROTFLMAO.

Normally I start off my week with a dilbert joke, this one however has gone off and started off my week on a better note.  

For someone who scrapes the internet for inciteful information he seems to be absolutely clueless as to the credibility of APA and the "clown club" (I wish I'd invented that term, but alas others were faster).  I guess the sites pictures impressed him.  

I'm now waiting for some "Gavin" commentary as well..... :)

 
 
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warpig       11/8/2009 2:54:31 PM

Peter Goon and Carlo
Kopp of Ausairpower declares F-35 to be a non-5th gen fighter. <link >


 
Hilarious.  These guys never stop producing laugh riots.  That you Slowman for bring to our attention their latest stupidity.
 
 
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mabie       11/9/2009 12:08:04 AM
 

- UK has cut its planned F-35 orders from 138 to 50 citing the "out of control" F-35B cost. Now the second carrier will only field helicopters.

Somehow, I doubt the above very much...

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Davies: both carriers will take JSF
Tuesday, November 03, 2009 

Both the Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales aircraft carriers will be able to carry the joint strike fighter (JSF) according to defence equipment and support minister Quentin Davies. Speaking in the House of Commons he also rubbished the Gray Report's claim that there was a £2bn annual overspend in the MoD's equipment programme.

In October, it was reported that government would downgrade either the Queen Elizabeth or the Prince of Wales carrier, taking away their ability to carry the JSF. Reports stated the MoD was looking to save money on the 65,000 tonne carriers, which are already £1bn over budget.

Davies said reports the carrier plans were to be scaled down were "complete rubbish".

"There is no suggestion at all, and there has never been in our minds at all, to re-specify the two aircraft carriers," he said. 

"There has been no change in that programme, and neither has there been any change in our JSF programme. We are already committed to purchasing the first three aircraft."

He also said there was "no evidential basis" to the statement in the Gray report that between £1bn and £2.2bn was being lost each year as a result of failure to control equipment spending.

"The very fact that the range is between £1bn and two point something billion shows how imprecise that statement inevitably would be," said Davies.
 
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jackjack       11/9/2009 1:46:50 AM
with the closing of the f-22 production line and the f-35 not up to the job, i guess that only leaves the 5th gen uber-pig
 
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jackjack       11/9/2009 1:46:54 AM
with the closing of the f-22 production line and the f-35 not up to the job, i guess that only leaves the 5th gen uber-pig
 
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Aussie Diggermark 2       11/9/2009 3:57:24 AM

Peter Goon and Carlo
Kopp of Ausairpower declares F-35 to be a non-5th gen fighter. <link >

Aussie Digger of strategy page declares Carlo Kopp and Peter Goon to be fcukwhits of the highest possible order...
 
No link needed... 
 
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jackjack       11/10/2009 1:37:11 AM
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UK's first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter enters assembly
(dont tell bw, it will only upset him)
 
showing the f-35 RAM for the first time
 
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jackjack       11/10/2009 2:09:11 AM
that ram photo didnt work, reposting a link isnt really worth it, its not that funny. but it concludes it
 a pic of a sheep on the plane
 
 
link
 
 
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sinoflex       11/10/2009 2:26:14 AM

that ram photo didnt work, reposting a link isnt really worth it, its not that funny. but it concludes it

 a pic of a sheep on the plane
 
link target="_blank">link

Thanks for sharing the picture.  Seems the RAM is not really a coating but more like a pelt.  
 
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jackjack       11/10/2009 2:45:04 AM
it might just be for the UK one, it gets dam cold in england
f-35's first overseas order is on the line, i wonder if rafale is offering this enhancement, it could be why it hasnt sold any so far
 
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