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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: HAPPY2BME on April 14, 2017, 04:31:07 PM
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The Air Force is set to deploy its high-tech, fifth-generation F-35A fighter jets to Europe this weekend as part of an effort to assure U.S. allies there who are worried about Russian aggression, the Pentagon announced Friday.
Aside from the Russian situation, the deployment is also a chance for the United States to show off the capabilities of the F-35, which has been the most expensive procurement program in Pentagon history.
Allies such as Great Britain are buying the aircraft and could be regularly operating in Europe early in the next decade.
The Pentagon called the deployment an "important milestone."
"This training deployment signifies an important milestone and natural progression of the F-35 program, allowing the Air Force to further demonstrate the operational capabilities of the fifth generation fighter aircraft. It also assists in refining requirements for eventually basing the F-35A in Europe, which is scheduled to receive the aircraft in the early 2020s," the statement said. "Once the aircraft arrive in Europe, U.S. Air Forces in Europe and U.S. European Command will release additional information as it becomes available about the F-35A's training deployment."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/us-deploys-f-35s-to-putins-doorstep-amid-russia-tension/article/2620298
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Does Jared Kushner have stock in raytheon? John McCain? Lindsey Graham?
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Great.
If Americans know what a flying brick the F-35 is, I am sure the Russkies do also.
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Great.
If Americans know what a flying brick the F-35 is, I am sure the Russkies do also.
The cannon onboard can fire 6,000 rounds a minute--but there's only 200 rounds in the onboard magazine . . . :whistling:
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Really nothing to do with current Putin issues, if the program had been on track this would have happened several years ago for the simple purpose of selling the damn' pigs. I can't say I regard NW Europe as 'Putin's doorstep.' THAT would be some place like Turkey, Georgia, or eastern Poland.