For years now, I have been writing articles here at NTS letting everyone know the bitter truths about the "latest and greatest" so called 'fighter aircraft' that is being developed by Lougheed Martin in the United States.... I am of course talking about the F35 "Lightning II" aircraft that is exposing itself as a flying hunk of junk that will cost the US taxpayers over 1 TRILLION dollars to produce and to replace the existing fleet of fighter aircraft in the United States alone....I have already put up so many previous articles that show clearly that the F35 is absolutely a waste of money and is absolutely not this 'superior fighter aircraft' as claimed.... It is woefully slower and less maneuverable than other present US fighter aircraft as well as "enemy" aircraft.... It carries a pitiful weapons load and until recently was not even equipped with a gun for air to air combat.... It cannot fly in the rain and is terrible for night combat..... It has a ridiculous single VTOL engine that consumes fuel at an astronomical rate therefore limiting its combat radius and time over targets.... And to top that all off, its 'STEALTH' is a sham and a fraud. Modern variable wavelength radars can easily see it coming and can shoot it down with ease!The biggest crime that I have always had with the F35 "flying lemon" or as I call it a POS (piece of shit), is the fact that the US government suckered previous Canadian governments into signing onto its ridiculous F35 program and to have the F35 with its single engine replace the entire existing Canadian fighter fleet of aging F18 Hornets.... The cost alone for this program to Canadians was initially expected to be around the 3-5 billion dollar range. BUT recent estimates have shown that the cost has now ballooned to well over 10 BILLION dollars making it the most expensive procurement of military hardware in Canadian history.....One of the election platforms of the Justin Trudeau Liberal regime that got it elected last year was to "reopen" the F35 project and to either re-evaluate the entire project, or to scrap it all together....Most Canadians, when they have finally been told the truth about the F35 and especially the cost for a fighter jet that cannot even fight, have all stated that they wanted the entire program scrapped and for Canada to look elsewhere for a replacement for its Hornets....And after months of wrangling and analysis, apparently the Liberal regime is now actually listening to Canadians, for according to the following link from the Popular Mechanics website, at www.popularmechanics.com, the Trudeau government is doing the right thing and will both scrap the F35 program for Canada and take the better and less expensive F18 Super Hornet instead! Here is the link to that report here:http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a24012/canada-f-18-order/This is actually great news for Canada in that it will save Canadian taxpayers a fortune in not wasting their money on the F35 flying hunk of junk.....We can hope that now there can actually be proper competition for a proper replacement of the aging F18 fleet here in Canada..... I would hope that the Trudeau government does indeed take an independent approach and have true independent and non-biased investigations and analysis take place as to what plane should be purchased..... The French "Rafale" fighter and even the Russian Sukhoi Su35 for examples are both superior to the F35 in every conceivable way and are indeed less expensive.....And we can hope that other nations, including Britain and Australia, now get the hint and also pull out of their own F35 programs and seek to replace their own fleets of fighters with planes that can actually fight....This may also be a signal to incoming President-elect Drumpf that the F35 is indeed a waste of money and should be scrapped immediately.... That TRILLION dollar allotment to the criminals at Lougheed Martin should be spent elsewhere..More to comeNTS
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