af.mil— The Air Force chief of staff announced Lightning II as the F-35 name during a Joint Strike Fighter Inauguration Ceremony today at the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. at Fort Worth, Texas.
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I am ok with my country's military being having N+1 capability. beating our military would take a alien (real aliens) invasion, and many aliens would die on forign soil that's for god damn sure.
The Joint Strike Fighter was designed from the start to be sold all over the world. To our allies anyway. However, I am sure that if one of our allies becomes our enemy (like France is working) the "Lightning II" has the same feature that other aircraft have. The ability for our military to flip a switch and that aircraft just stops working. Ask Iran.
@Ktorbeck by "switch" I imagine you mean banning sales of replacement parts. Any "dongle" switch could easily be cracked. The only other alternative I see here is a remotely activated self destruct sequence, and building that in would be kinda doing the enemy's job for them. @pyrex000 air "superiority" hasn't been America's policy for a loooooooong time, it's Air Dominance, this means the USAF has to be able to DOMINATE against any enemy they'll face out there, their policy is that the enemy doesn't get to stand a chance, even if they're fighting with US planes a few gens back.
The pilots are training like they're going to war... because they probably are. Same with Israeli soldiers...I'm jealous of swiss soldiers, their training involves long mountain walks while smoking Js and Talking on their Handys.... Special Forces rides around mountain bikes all day, and their f-16 squads have problems training because after flying in any direction a few minutes at afterburner they have to turn around because of the border.
They should have called it the Velociraptor. Or the Deathbringer. Lightning II is a pussy name and a plane this badass deserves a far more rad name than that.
Well it was a nod to the extensive British involvement in the project. The original Lightning had a lot of respect in the Aviation community - even on the American side.
pseudojdJul 8, 2006
I am ok with my country's military being having N+1 capability. beating our military would take a alien (real aliens) invasion, and many aliens would die on forign soil that's for god damn sure.
ktorbeckJul 8, 2006
The Joint Strike Fighter was designed from the start to be sold all over the world. To our allies anyway. However, I am sure that if one of our allies becomes our enemy (like France is working) the "Lightning II" has the same feature that other aircraft have. The ability for our military to flip a switch and that aircraft just stops working. Ask Iran.
Closed AccountJul 8, 2006
How we kill the last leader of Al Queda in Iraq?Same way the current and the next leader of Al Queda in Iraq are going to die.
icebrkJul 8, 2006
@Ktorbeck by "switch" I imagine you mean banning sales of replacement parts. Any "dongle" switch could easily be cracked. The only other alternative I see here is a remotely activated self destruct sequence, and building that in would be kinda doing the enemy's job for them. @pyrex000 air "superiority" hasn't been America's policy for a loooooooong time, it's Air Dominance, this means the USAF has to be able to DOMINATE against any enemy they'll face out there, their policy is that the enemy doesn't get to stand a chance, even if they're fighting with US planes a few gens back.
icebrkJul 8, 2006
The pilots are training like they're going to war... because they probably are. Same with Israeli soldiers...I'm jealous of swiss soldiers, their training involves long mountain walks while smoking Js and Talking on their Handys.... Special Forces rides around mountain bikes all day, and their f-16 squads have problems training because after flying in any direction a few minutes at afterburner they have to turn around because of the border.
synaesthesiaJul 8, 2006
They should have called it the Velociraptor. Or the Deathbringer. Lightning II is a pussy name and a plane this badass deserves a far more rad name than that.
raid517Jul 8, 2006
Well it was a nod to the extensive British involvement in the project. The original Lightning had a lot of respect in the Aviation community - even on the American side.
chevyorangeJul 8, 2006
I like the respect they are giving to the original Lightening.
scotty707Jul 9, 2006
Shouldn't this be the "Lightning III?" For a short time the F-22 was named the "Lightning II" before being changed to "Raptor" (<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-22_Raptor#Development).">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-22_Raptor#Development).</a>
ukmickyMay 6, 2007
And there was also the P38 lightning
chevyorangeApr 16, 2008
I was thinking of the P-38 WWII fighter, not the post WWII Electric Lightening fighter.