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Originally Posted by jofillips
so i'm interested to know if you watched the fifth estate documentary on this?
some old fuddy duddy (no idea how relevant to anything this man was) kept on saying it was a useless plane with the ability of a ww1 biplane pretty much.
Now I call bull**** on that codger, of course its over budget and late - BUT no use at all??
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I watched it, while it had some good points in terms of the governmental side of things. They really slanted on the technology side of things and really only talked to people that wanted to utterly blast the aircraft itself.
They did talk to Pierre Sprey who was a member of the Fighter Mafia that designed the F-16 and he gleefully bashed the F-35, he also gleefully bashed the F-22 Raptor, and pretty much every plane that has come out without his name attached to it.
It was a tough Fifth Estate to watch, there's no doubt that the government mishandled the file,and that members of the department of defense didn't communicate and embarrassed the government.
But there was some real slant on the capabilities side, though it was fairly honest on the issues side and the government side.