> On Sep 19, 2:30 pm, rb rb.com> wrote:

>> Addinall wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>

>>>> First, there are a grand total of seven Su-35's on the planet, and
>>>> only three of them are in flying condition.

>>> Secondly, only two F-35s exist on the planet. Both of them use
>>> different parts.
>>> Neither can fly at the moment.

>> given that the F35 is still in a state of development, how do you know
>> what it is, and is not capable of?

>
> I read the sales blurb like everyone else. And then I look at the
> numbers
> that come along with the sales blurb. Then I compare those numbers
> to numbers in other sales blurbs. Even if the F-35 could be chucked
> into the air today with a dusting of magic "on-time" dust, it would
> still be
> fat, slow, underpowered and undergunned.
>
> It has 'Stealth"? Whoo hoo. It needs it.
>

>>
>>

>>>> Four have been
>>>> cannibalized to get the other three flying. The three flyable
>>>> examples, are unarmed air-show demonstrators, and would require a
>>>> couple of months worth of work to make them combat ready.

>>> From what I have seen to date, the F-35 MIGHT be 'combat ready' in
>>> another 10 years, and only if it is coming up head to head with
>>> tourists in Cessnas.

>> OK, what have you seen, care to share?

>
> Same test flights as everone else. And the reports of the
> various tests.
>
> Mark Addinall.
>

>> rb

>