The F-35 is turning out to be second-rate combat aircraft, less able to perform its mission than the legacy F-16 it is designed to replace. Although not widely reported in the U.S. media (see here), in a staged dogfight the F-35 proved no match against the 40-yo F-16.
Robert Dory, in his book Air Power Abandoned writes, “The F-35 demonstrates repeatedly that it can’t live up to promises made for it…It’s that bad.”
Senator John McCain put it this way: “Look, Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.”
If only 25% of this story is true it demonstrates the ineffectiveness and corrupt nature of our belligerent foreign policy.
How are carriers, subs and pathetic F-35 aircraft to compete against what is described below?
We had carriers, subs and aircraft that were pretty good fighting relatively stone-age Korea and Vietnam…
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/09/donald-w-miller-jr-md/farage-for-london-mayor/
In his State of the Union speech three years ago, President Obama, citing the sanctions his administration imposed on Russia said: “Russia is isolated, with its economy in tatters.” Senator John McCain put it this way: “Look, Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.”
A month later, on March 1, 2018, President Vladimir Putin gave his annual State of the Nation speech to the Russian Federal Assembly in Moscow. The last third of his 2-hour, 13,340-word speech dealt with nuclear treaties and nuclear weapons.
He unveiled six new weapon systems and showed a short video of each one on screens flanking the stage. Putin warned:
“Any use of nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies, weapons of short, medium or any range at all, will be considered as a nuclear attack on this country. Retaliation will be immediate, with all the attendant consequences. There should be no doubt about this whatsoever.”
The weapon systems President Putin unveiled in his March 1 speech, if real, checkmate U.S. military global supremacy.
The RS-28 Sarmat Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
Putin first showed a video simulation of Russia’s new RS-28 Sarmat heavy Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, from launch to release of the missile’s nuclear warheads over the target area.
A mininuclear reactor powers this 120-feet long, 220-ton ballistic missile. It can place a 10-ton payload in near earth orbit. Information on its miniaturized nuclear reactor is classified.
The capsule containing the nuclear warheads orbits around the south pole, thus being able to release them on American targets from the south side of the country, bypassing its missile defense system pointed north to intercept ICBMs coming straight from Russia over the north pole… Read the rest of this entry »
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