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I strive for rigor in facts.

I strive for rigor in facts. Look, the fact is that the plane is kind of stubby looking and is not the quantum leap in maneuverability that, say, generation 4 represented from the previous gen. But I get very, very tired of people taking a poorly researched article that takes major sections of a report out of context (yes, I'm aware that Axe published the whole thing, but he still doesn't draw the correct conclusions from it) and then using that to say, "See? The F-35 sucks after all". The F-35 is a complex answer to a complex question, and it cannot be so simply understood. I wish it could. I love engineering simplicity and elegance and strive for it in my own designs, but anything in the military-industrial complex is hairy and ugly. And yes, I know that from personal experience. Is that a bad thing?

Posted by engi_nerd on Aug 1, 2015, 3:18 AM

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I strive for rigor in facts.

engi_nerdAug 1, 2015, 3:18 AM

I strive for rigor in facts. Look, the fact is that the plane is kind of stubby looking and is not the quantum leap in maneuverability that, say, generation 4 represented from the previous gen. But I get very, very tired of people taking a poorly researched article that takes major sections of a report out of context (yes, I'm aware that Axe published the whole thing, but he still doesn't draw the correct conclusions from it) and then using that to say, "See? The F-35 sucks after all". The F-35 is a complex answer to a complex question, and it cannot be so simply understood. I wish it could. I love engineering simplicity and elegance and strive for it in my own designs, but anything in the military-industrial complex is hairy and ugly. And yes, I know that from personal experience. Is that a bad thing?

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