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USAF grounds F-35s due to crumbling fuel tanks

https://www.rt.com/usa/359613-air-force-ground-f-35-crumblin...
Boyish state lettuce
  09/17/16
Heroic stoic Russians would have simply let the jets blow up...
Razzle-dazzle Rusted Jew Pit
  09/17/16
No, they would have built a fuel tank that works. https:...
Boyish state lettuce
  09/17/16
looks primitive
flickering national
  10/21/16
?? Sounds like the USMC and USN versions are fine but the AF...
red pea-brained codepig fanboi
  09/17/16
The ones that have the tank issue need to be stripped down a...
Boyish state lettuce
  09/17/16
its like 10 planes. relax
razzle water buffalo
  09/17/16
LJL they only have like 100 total.
Boyish state lettuce
  09/17/16
right... they are in the process of delivering the first one...
razzle water buffalo
  09/17/16
LJL at this spin. This is a $1 trillion dollar program and e...
Boyish state lettuce
  09/17/16
Does it bother you that we can spend Russia's GDP on a crapp...
godawful arrogant nursing home
  09/17/16
It should bother you that Russia builds a better fighter for...
Boyish state lettuce
  09/17/16
Is that the same PAK-FA that Alexander Zelin, then chief of ...
nighttime dilemma deer antler
  09/17/16
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zippy parlor
  09/17/16
ARE reptile, once again, done here.
motley cruise ship
  09/17/16
BS.
Boyish state lettuce
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swashbuckling ratface trailer park
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nighttime dilemma deer antler
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sadistic incel
  09/17/16
Omg.
Bright multi-colored mental disorder
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sadistic incel
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Brass Business Firm Telephone
  09/17/16
that would be the one
adventurous cyan ticket booth
  09/17/16
https://twitter.com/Rogozin/status/775847840497238016 180...
Boyish state lettuce
  09/17/16
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/this-is-what-a-bbqd-russian...
motley cruise ship
  09/17/16
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nighttime dilemma deer antler
  09/18/16
An Are Reptile is det.
Razzle-dazzle Rusted Jew Pit
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nighttime dilemma deer antler
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Thriller disrespectful boistinker
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Citrine ungodly sneaky criminal
  06/01/17
it's fair, the f35 is an overpriced piece of shit
razzmatazz property old irish cottage
  09/17/16
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nighttime dilemma deer antler
  09/17/16
It effects 57 jets -- more than half the fleet. Jets will be...
Boyish state lettuce
  09/17/16
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nighttime dilemma deer antler
  09/17/16
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nighttime dilemma deer antler
  09/19/16
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  09/23/16
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nighttime dilemma deer antler
  09/23/16
http://www.defensenews.com/articles/bogdan-f-35-coolant-line...
Brass Business Firm Telephone
  09/23/16
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nighttime dilemma deer antler
  10/10/16
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nighttime dilemma deer antler
  11/21/16
this is what happens when try to phase out XO A10's over TLS...
lascivious bat-shit-crazy mother striped hyena
  11/21/16
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nighttime dilemma deer antler
  04/15/17
didn't the SR-71 also leak a ton of fuel even before lift of...
Scarlet cuckold
  04/15/17
Yeah. The tanks would only seal once it reached operating te...
nighttime dilemma deer antler
  04/15/17
Military procurement is shot through with waste, abuse and f...
Electric public bath
  04/15/17
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nighttime dilemma deer antler
  05/12/17
TLS F-35's The perfect shitlib plane.
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  06/01/17


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Date: September 17th, 2016 8:24 AM
Author: Boyish state lettuce

https://www.rt.com/usa/359613-air-force-ground-f-35-crumbling/

Yankee uber plane! Primitive Yankees cant even make a working fuel tank.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31427303)



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Date: September 17th, 2016 8:37 AM
Author: Razzle-dazzle Rusted Jew Pit

Heroic stoic Russians would have simply let the jets blow up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31427326)



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Date: September 17th, 2016 8:45 AM
Author: Boyish state lettuce

No, they would have built a fuel tank that works.

https://pp.vk.me/c631916/v631916431/4895c/qf6cExw0cws.jpg

This is one of the new MiG-29K's on the Kuznetsov aircraft carrier. 4 1000 liter fuel tanks AND a gigantic M-400 radar rec pod! That is a SICK payload especially for a jet taking off from a carrier with no catapult. They are using it to spy on Norway right now but in Syria it will find targets for airstrikes.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31427347)



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Date: October 21st, 2016 11:01 AM
Author: flickering national

looks primitive

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31696338)



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Date: September 17th, 2016 8:49 AM
Author: red pea-brained codepig fanboi

?? Sounds like the USMC and USN versions are fine but the AF and Norwegian ones need to have their tanks switched out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31427360)



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Date: September 17th, 2016 8:52 AM
Author: Boyish state lettuce

The ones that have the tank issue need to be stripped down and engines rebuilt to clean out the crap they ingested from the fuel tanks. That will cost a fuckton of money per air frame and involve a a lot more time and work than just switching out the tanks, bro. Those jets will be down for weeks.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31427364)



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Date: September 17th, 2016 9:05 AM
Author: razzle water buffalo

its like 10 planes. relax

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31427391)



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Date: September 17th, 2016 9:06 AM
Author: Boyish state lettuce

LJL they only have like 100 total.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31427393)



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Date: September 17th, 2016 9:06 AM
Author: razzle water buffalo

right... they are in the process of delivering the first ones. u ok bro?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31427396)



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Date: September 17th, 2016 9:08 AM
Author: Boyish state lettuce

LJL at this spin. This is a $1 trillion dollar program and even the TTT basic as fuck fuel tanks are fucked up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31427400)



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Date: September 17th, 2016 9:17 AM
Author: godawful arrogant nursing home

Does it bother you that we can spend Russia's GDP on a crappy weapons program and still be fiscally fine while Russia's economy continues to be SPS?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31427408)



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Date: September 17th, 2016 9:19 AM
Author: Boyish state lettuce

It should bother you that Russia builds a better fighter for $100 billion than you do for $1 trillion. At this point even the Western press has impaled itself on the PAK-FA's cock.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31427414)



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Date: September 17th, 2016 9:38 AM
Author: nighttime dilemma deer antler

Is that the same PAK-FA that Alexander Zelin, then chief of the Russian Air Force, admitted was "inferior to American fighters of the same type." The same PAK-FA that's been publicly criticized by India - Russia's partner in developing and financing the project - for having an unreliable engine, poorly engineered airframe, inadequate radar, and for costing far too much? The same PAK-FA that has a radar cross section three orders of magnitude greater than that of the F-22? That PAK-FA?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31427490)



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Date: September 17th, 2016 9:57 AM
Author: zippy parlor



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Date: September 17th, 2016 10:17 AM
Author: motley cruise ship

ARE reptile, once again, done here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31427629)



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Date: September 17th, 2016 10:21 AM
Author: Boyish state lettuce

BS.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31427653)



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Date: September 17th, 2016 11:54 AM
Author: swashbuckling ratface trailer park



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Date: September 17th, 2016 12:01 PM
Author: nighttime dilemma deer antler



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Date: September 17th, 2016 3:02 PM
Author: sadistic incel



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Date: September 17th, 2016 3:52 PM
Author: Bright multi-colored mental disorder

Omg.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31429836)



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Date: September 17th, 2016 7:59 PM
Author: sadistic incel



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Date: September 17th, 2016 8:03 PM
Author: Brass Business Firm Telephone



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Date: September 17th, 2016 6:35 PM
Author: adventurous cyan ticket booth

that would be the one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31430838)



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Date: September 17th, 2016 6:51 PM
Author: Boyish state lettuce

https://twitter.com/Rogozin/status/775847840497238016

180 pic from Russia-India inking PAK-FA 1st tranche deal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31430982)



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Date: September 17th, 2016 7:58 PM
Author: motley cruise ship

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/this-is-what-a-bbqd-russian-5th-generation-fighter-look-1589559175

One of Russia's Sukhoi T-50 prototypes had a very bad day recently, catching fire at the end of a test sortie and the resulting damage is pretty horrific.

It is not clear what exactly caused the fire, but the PAK-FA program, although appearing to be moving along swiftly, has its issues, and India, the partner nation in the program, it not happy with the design.

Read more on foxnews.​com

I had my doubts as to the aircraft's low-observability right when the airframe was first unveiled, especially considering the engine's first stage fan was not even shrouded from line-of sight in any way. Still, low-observability is not everything when it comes to survivability on the modern air combat battlefield, and it will be even less-so in the future. Yet even for a less aggressive "balanced" low-observable approach, the T-50 in its present form is lacking.

So many people love the Russian fighters, especially the massive Su-27 Flanker and its many derivatives, but the aircraft's avionics, and in the T-50's sake its design philosophy, craftsmanship and material science, simply to do not come close to parity with American designs.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31431394)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 2:48 AM
Author: nighttime dilemma deer antler



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Date: September 17th, 2016 7:53 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle Rusted Jew Pit

An Are Reptile is det.

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Date: April 5th, 2017 1:39 PM
Author: nighttime dilemma deer antler



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Date: April 5th, 2017 1:43 PM
Author: Kink-friendly Sienna Church Building



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Date: April 15th, 2017 10:29 PM
Author: Thriller disrespectful boistinker



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Date: June 1st, 2017 9:21 PM
Author: Citrine ungodly sneaky criminal



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Date: September 17th, 2016 9:29 AM
Author: razzmatazz property old irish cottage

it's fair, the f35 is an overpriced piece of shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31427455)



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Date: September 17th, 2016 2:03 PM
Author: nighttime dilemma deer antler



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Date: September 17th, 2016 3:03 PM
Author: Boyish state lettuce

It effects 57 jets -- more than half the fleet. Jets will be out of commission for 10 days. Time for Red Dawn!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31429419)



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Date: September 17th, 2016 6:33 PM
Author: nighttime dilemma deer antler



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Date: September 19th, 2016 11:50 PM
Author: nighttime dilemma deer antler



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Date: September 23rd, 2016 6:26 PM
Author: nighttime dilemma deer antler



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Date: September 23rd, 2016 9:59 PM
Author: nighttime dilemma deer antler



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Date: September 23rd, 2016 10:03 PM
Author: Brass Business Firm Telephone

http://www.defensenews.com/articles/bogdan-f-35-coolant-line-fix-coming-in-weeks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31477687)



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Date: October 10th, 2016 1:25 PM
Author: nighttime dilemma deer antler



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Date: November 21st, 2016 6:18 PM
Author: nighttime dilemma deer antler



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Date: November 21st, 2016 6:20 PM
Author: lascivious bat-shit-crazy mother striped hyena

this is what happens when try to phase out XO A10's over TLS F-35's

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#31964155)



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Date: April 15th, 2017 9:16 PM
Author: nighttime dilemma deer antler



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Date: April 15th, 2017 9:20 PM
Author: Scarlet cuckold

didn't the SR-71 also leak a ton of fuel even before lift off?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#33082720)



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Date: April 15th, 2017 9:27 PM
Author: nighttime dilemma deer antler

Yeah. The tanks would only seal once it reached operating temp. Also had to refuel in the air immediately after takeoff.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#33082793)



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Date: April 15th, 2017 10:08 PM
Author: Electric public bath

Military procurement is shot through with waste, abuse and fraud. The only reason for America's preeminence in the world is that the other countries (Russia, China, India, Brazil, etc.) are even more dysfunctional/corrupt/inept than we are.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#33083096)



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Date: May 12th, 2017 10:48 PM
Author: nighttime dilemma deer antler



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Date: June 1st, 2017 9:22 PM
Author: Filthy beady-eyed liquid oxygen school cafeteria

TLS F-35's

The perfect shitlib plane.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3354234&forum_id=2#33450580)