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[โ€“] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 60 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Pretty sure this explains why the bang wiz-35 crashes if it gets a raindrop on the nose. If you need a clean room to manufacturer a fighter jet, it's probably better suited for... Idk, space or something that doesn't have an atmosphere?

[โ€“] Llituro@hexbear.net 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i think this plus all the aerospace companies eating their own QA to increase profits results in the f35 falling missile. the clean room part alone is a critical design point but not necessarily a flaw. insects have little exoskeletons because keeping your mushy bits complicated and mushy and toughening your outside is a valid strategy for survival. and i think tactically the thing is supposed to be a steal fighter with like VTOL maneuverability or something dumb? which would necessitate more of the complicated mushy bits that don't jive with a 1940's era production messy production setting. not to defend us military choices, i wish they wouldn't spend unimaginable sums of money perfecting the magical invisible death machine. that they test above my city. i just wouldn't say that housing complex electronics inside of a well-engineered rugged exoskeleton is necessarily a flaw.

[โ€“] buh@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

they should call it X-35, the everything airplane

[โ€“] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Imagine if that one won the contest, it would be doubly funny now. Also it looks better or at least funnier, hue-hue-jet.

[โ€“] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

๐•-35
my-hero brand image is my passion

[โ€“] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

wtyp-gang covered the SR-17 in their episode on stealth jets, and they noted how the vehicle has to undergo such a profound physical change at supersonic speed that it's basically falling apart on the runway when it's parked.

This is just the reality of making a plane fly very fast. When they're not moving very fast, they start to fall apart.

[โ€“] stink@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Is this the try guys

Edit: nvm but idk who they are

[โ€“] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Well There's Your Problem: A podcast about engineering disasters, with slides

[โ€“] jaywalker@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

I'm not particularly familiar with these jets, but my guess is they need a clean room for manufacturing mostly due to electronics and hydraulics. Really just about any kind of precision instrument requires a clean room to manufacture

[โ€“] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 57 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Some of the most clownish boots I've ever met were F-35 apologists. They thought that by saying "the mission" a lot that it'd sweep away the visible and obvious money pit that these janky bazinga planes are. They picked up ad copy from the DoD and parroted it nonstop to the point of sounding interchangeable. morshupls

[โ€“] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 58 points 1 month ago

The V-22 Osprey apologist on reddit-logo who died in an Osprey crash was chefs-kiss

[โ€“] morrowind@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

F-35 apologists is not a phrase I thought I'd ever hear anyone say

[โ€“] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

Good shit. I wish I was half this badass, but my par cor days are long behind me.

[โ€“] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

LOL.

The amount of fucking idiot gammons saying 'duhhghhh well done accomplished nothing stupid liberal wooowwww just a bit of paint that'll be sorted in no time'

Eat shit

[โ€“] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago
[โ€“] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] jack@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's the term recently utilized for folks who take direct, disruptive political action against imperialist infrastructure.

[โ€“] morrowind@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What happened to activists?

[โ€“] jack@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Aquilae@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago
[โ€“] DragonSlayer999@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)