Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

RT @the_engi_nerd: I will be writing up a longer piece on my thoughts on all the F-35 related drama currently happening on this site. But some thoughts:

People not read into the program can't know the full requirements story. We can know some of the functional requirements and the constraints governing those requirements, but we can't know the operational requirements.

I'm in a unique position because not only have I read the actual F-35 Operational Requirements Document, it was once my job to determine exactly how well the F-35's systems performed. Not whether or not they met the requirement -- how well they actually performed.

I don't think there's anyone on the planet who has examined more F-35 flight test data than I have.

Unfortunately, I can't tell you much about any of that. What I can say is that the jet's mission systems far out-perform the functional requirements levied upon them.

The biggest objections about the jet come on what you might call the mission engineering side of things. As a text I rather adore would say, mission engineering is concerned with whether the needs of the end user are satisfied. Sure, the jet does so many things rather well, but it's not meeting availability goals and has suffered over 12 years of schedule delays. So it's not enough to do the things really well, you have to be available to do it and you have to be cheap enough to operate.

Clearly there's grounds for discussion here, but I flat out reject 'jack of all trades, master of none' when it comes to this jet. It's actually the master of quite a lot! I know quite a few pilots of the F-35 and of other platforms -- and all the guys flying other fighter types would want to go to war in an F-35. I personally would only feel like I had a reasonable chance of survival in an F-35.

More to come on this later, I have a day job to do.

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

RT @John_A_Ridge: 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 A Ukrainian 9A310M1 TELAR armed with 2 RIM-7P Sea Sparrows in an underground shelter. This TELAR is part of a Buk-Sparrow complex, which integrates RIM-7 and Buk-M1.

Buk-Sparrow is one of multiple different “FrankenSAM” complexes in Ukrainian service.

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

RT @noclador: Correct.

Every single tweet by El○n bout the F-35 shows he knows nothing about aerodynamics, stealth, radar, drones, strategy, aerial combat, electronic warfare, reconnaissance, communications, optics, procurement, geography, etc.

So please follow the 2 accounts Colby mentions https://twitter.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1861108289641029863#m

IgorGirkin (Twitter)

Pokrovsk direction, unpleasant situation for ru worms

Rob Lee (Twitter)

Videos from servicemen from Ukrainian SSO's 8th Regiment and 4th Ranger Regiment ambushing Russian soldiers in a tree line and a Desertcross ATV in a field. I cropped the videos to avoid showing bodies. 354/
t.me/ukr_sof/1276
t.me/ua_regteam/221

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

Дроновыколупывание
t.me/ua_42nd_ombr/687 t.me/totem_72/141 t.me/krulaomegu/308 t.me/jagers68/451 #RussianUkrainianWar

IgorGirkin (Twitter)

Unpleasant situation for ru worms

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

Ехали, ехали и не доехали
t.me/russianocontext/5324 #всрф #потерьнет

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

Лиманское направление: работает #63омбр #всу, нарезка лучшего за последние 100 дней
t.me/ombr_63/988