>>520540063
>Whatever your personal thoughts about the F-35, over a thousand in service worldwide with many more in production is not vaporware.
Vaporware doesn't mean something was produced in small numbers, vaporware means something is very shitty and people pretend it's great to make money.

If you guys made 10 million F-35, it'd not stop being a meme plane that barely works.

>>519621259
>Refining rare earths seems to be like winning a war, the West can surely, totally, absolutely do it if it wants, it just don't want, ok?
Making their Invisible™ cope triangles fly more than 10% of the time is another one of those things they just don't want to do

>>518674337
These availability numbers are only for brand new F-35s.

>>516131471
Do they even have 10k aircraft to lose this time?

>>516024543
Planned obsolescence

>>515325832
Don't forget that the wear and tear from that F-35 flight will reduce its mission capable rating to below 10%

>>515318492
>F-35C
They fly now?

>>515005362
>• A squadron of F-35s are moved to Puerto Rico
Oh boy, that's like 40% of a fully mission capable plane
Sounds like they're trying to give the GAE a softer landing

>When a F-35 reachs 4 years of age, they only have about 10% of Mission Availability
Man, that's 2 trillion dollars well spent.

F-35s have a 4 year shelf life, lol.