Early American stealth technology, the F-117 kind, relied heavily on angled plates and special paint to prevent radar waves from being returned to enemy receivers. The current stealth technology relies on curved surfaces and anti-radar coatings to prevent radar waves from beaming back to enemy receivers. This technology is used
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The Disaffected Lib: The F-35 – "It Sucks the Wind Out of Your Lungs"
The Pentagon’s F-35 programme director wants to slow down production because of the mass of problems turning up in testing. “The analyzed hot spots that have arisen in the last 12 months or so in the program have surprised us at the amount of change and at the cost,’ U.S.
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: The Annals of Politics in St. Albert: Hold Page 1! Big city newspaper mocks local Conservative MP!
Edmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgaber wonders why Rick Mercer got the job, or something. Alberta politicians may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Brent Rathgeber as he really appears; Globe founder George Brown. St. ALBERT, Alberta There’s an old saying in politics that goes, “it doesn’t matter what they say
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: F-35 In Free Fall?
Look, It’s a Turkey – Sitting in Front of a Turkey The way things are going, the F-35 may save Canada from getting F-35’d. Every couple of weeks I Google F-35 to harvest the latest litany of gaffes, setbacks and blunders surrounding Lockheed’s vaunted Joint Strike Fighter. The U.S.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: F-35, Yet Another Delay
The overdue, overbudget F-35 will, yawn, be another two years late. A USAF general informed a congressional panel today that the long-delayed aircraft, most recently promised for 2016, won’t be available until 2018.What’s that sound? It’s t…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Can Canada Escape Getting F-35’d?
One of the most worrisome aspects (there are several) of the Harper government’s F-35 fetish is the paltry number of them we’ll be able to afford. This deal is already stretched so tight, and getting tighter with each passing week, that we’…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: F-35, Canada’s Maginot Line?
The Maginot Line. It was a massive, intricate, costly and high-tech line of fortifications the French built along the German border to defend themselves after WWI. The line consisted of fortifications, bunkers, trenches, tank obstacles, art…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Tory recipe for happiness: save money and gain self esteem by scrapping the gun registry!
Why should I have to register my flying car? I’m a law-abiding driver! Civilian variants of the $100-million-plus F-35, without working radios, may not be exactly as illustrated. Below, Edmonton St. Albert Member of Parliament Brent Rathgeber. Really…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Meanwhile, Turning to F-35 News
Oh the poor F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Harper-MacKay’s sweet fortune’s minion and her pride.Nat Po’s Michael Den Tandt has a telling assessment suggesting that the F-35 project is unraveling.“It just seems like it’s slowly unravelling,” said an i…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: F-35 Grounded, Again
The Pentagon has just announced it is again grounding the F-35 fleet, the third time this year.The 20 operational test and training aircraft were ordered parked Wednesday until engineers and technicians can find why a power system that starts and coo…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Lockheed’s Lame Ducks
Lockheed Martin represents the bleeding edge of American military airpower. Lockheed produced the F-22 Raptor stealth super fighter and is struggling to churn out the F-35 Lightning II stealth bomb wagon.Lately, Lockheed’s lions have turned…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Australia May Ditch the F-35
The Australian government has revealed it may scrap its plan to buy 100 F-35s because of delivery delays and ongoing cost overruns. Repeated delays and ballooning costs in the F-35 programme are now starting to rub against already generous delivery and…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Gulp. America’s F-35 Bill Just Skyrockets, Again
Okay, Now I Need To Know How to Flush This ThingAlready America’s most-expensive ever military purchase, the F-35 project price tag just went up by three quarters of a billion dollars – but wait for it – that’s for the first 28 aircraft.The Pentagon in…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Canada’s Venture Into America’s Corporate Militarism Cabal, the F-35
In an alternate universe, let’s call it Planet Sane, eyes would roll, heads would shake and tongues would wag over how a bloated project, like Lockheed’s F-35 joint strike fighter didn’t collapse under its own weight and simply die.Fortunately for us, …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: "40 Second Boyd" or F-35 – More Bureaucracy Than Technology
The late Colonel John “40 Second” Boyd would have a thing or three hundred to say about the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and not one of them good.
Boyd was a highly accomplished fighter pilot who fought through the Korean and Vietnam wars and went on t…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Does the F-35 Mean for Canada?
Stevie Harper’s insistence on saddling Canada with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has enormous significance for our country’s military and diplomatic future.
Forget the business about defending Canada’s vast northern airspace. If that was the objec…
Continue readingImpolitical: Blog notes – Tuesday, May 24th
For the life of me, I can’t come up with a blog post title that expresses that I just want to include a number of items, briefly and that has some kind of appeal. It just never comes to me. Oh well. It’s only been about six years I’ve been writing this…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Israeli newspaper reports U.S. may scrap F-35
A radar-evading F-35 “Flying Bathtub” fighter waits on the tarmac for takeoff. Below, U.S. Sen. John McCain in jet-flying duds, back in the day.Well, you know how it goes: here today, gone tomorrow…Anyway, this just in from Israel: The United Sta…
Continue readingPop The Stack: A Time For Politics and A Time For Action
Well, this is going to be an interesting week isn’t? In case you haven’t heard, the UN Security Council just approved a No Fly Zone over Libya. The wording was stronger than expected allowing “any necessary actions” to protect civilians from being massacred by Gaddafi’s forces. Word has it that Canada has already committed to send six of our […]
Be Heard on March 3rd: No Stealth Fighters
Ceasefire.ca, the public arm of the Rideau Institute, in conjunction with rabble.ca has stated that March 3rd is the official day of action for all those who want to speak out against the purchase of Stealth Fighters by the Conservative Canadian go…
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