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I will tackle your last comment in reverse order:
RE: Other questions listed in previous post are actually far too complicated to be addressed on comment thread like this. "Very. Ask the users." would not suffice.
Oh, I've pretty much disabused others in great detail over the years (here and elsewhere) so I recognized the futility of reiterating same to someone who (it is obvious) was determined to be anti-JSF at any cost. The 'tell' is found in statements like:
"Perspective: JSF already costs more than FIVE times ATF/F22's $70 billion total program cost."
That is demonstrably a rather warped "perspective". To compare the two costs in any meaningful way you would have to normalize for different O&S cost durations (the F-35 numbers contain 55 years of operation, the F-22....doesn't) and for quantities of aircraft 196 F-22s vs. a likely 3000+ F-35s, THEN adjust for inflation due to different then-year dollars.
Finally
RE: By watering down/dismissing known problems/reports and pumping up advertised strengthens (yes, i read your post-Boyd article) won't make the problems disappear. Like many pro-JSF fellows, you come quite close to defying physics, logic and arithmetic."
B.S. (and so the pattern continues...)
You cannot support ANYTHING in that last accusation. (If you could prove me wrong you would delightfully do so) Quite the contrary, I use physics, logic, and mathematics because they are the best balm for the Anti-JSF crowd's sad complaints, because they hate hard facts, even when they can't grasp their meaning.
BTW: Here's a Canadian operator's POV. http://www.cjad.com/blog/RicPetersonShow/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10548179
See if you can avoid a Circumstantial Ad Hominem in 'deciding' not to believe him.
Jun 3, 2013, 10:28:47 PM
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