The F-35 fighter jet is not a good product. Even the Jews are grounding them.
RT:
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has decided to ground 11 of its F-35A fighter jets on Sunday, following an incident in Texas last week that saw a US Air Force F-35B Lightning II crash during an attempted landing.
“From the findings and the information transmitted, it was found that these planes require a dedicated inspection in order to rule out the possibility of a repeated malfunction in the Israeli system,” an IDF spokesperson told the media.
An initial review showed that the US-supplied aircraft might have similar defects that led to the Texas crash, IDF said. The decision to ground the jets was still taken out of precaution since it was not yet clear if the Israeli F-35s have that similar issue.
The US F-35B crashed during a vertical landing procedure at an air base in North Texas last Thursday, prompting the pilot to eject from the jet nearly at runway level. The Israeli F-35A lacks vertical landing capability entirely.
It is the second time Israel has halted its F-35 flights this year alone. Back in July, Tel Aviv had already grounded the jets for some time after an ejection-seat malfunction was discovered. The US grounded its entire fleet of F-35s at that time.
Here’s video of the incident in Texas. It looks like something out of a Looney Tunes animation.
#Breaking New much clearer video, courtesy Kitt Wilder, of STOL variant F35 B model landing JRB Fort Worth, and pilot ejects. Condition of pilot still unknown. @CBSDFW pic.twitter.com/BeERIeyhtO
— Doug Dunbar (@cbs11doug) December 15, 2022
Literally trillions have been allocated for the F-35 program.
We spent $1.7 trillion on this pic.twitter.com/1AG6RkdQ0n
— Secular Talk🎙 (@KyleKulinski) December 15, 2022
Despite that, it has a horrible operational record.
Um, the F-35 often can't get off the ground.
The Navy's F-35C's "fully mission capable" rate is *9%*
The Marines' F-35B is at 20%.
The Air Force's F-35A is a rock star. It's ready half the time.
Whispers: This is a trillion $ program.https://t.co/AFWf0yiqu1 pic.twitter.com/ikvx5eMmwi
— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) May 10, 2022
The F-35 is a totally over engineered product and extremely expensive and tedious to maintain.
Hilariously, this was supposed to be the flagship fighter jet of not just Israel but NATO for years. Russia must be laughing at all of this. I know I would be if I were them.