[DerbyX]

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Nearly 30 percent of all the test flights have required more than routine maintenance to get the aircraft flyable again.[128] Currently each F-35 takes a million more work hours than predicted and flight testing is expected to result in further design changes.[129] The United States Navy has projected that lifecycle costs over a fleet life of 65 years for all of the American F-35s will be $442 billion higher than the U.S. Air Force has projected

This is certainly a cause for concern don't you think?

[EyeBrock]

commanderkai wrote:

EyeBrock wrote:

It's like movies that use American tanks and pretend that they are Panzer SS Tigers. Just not good!

True, but it's not really easy to find fully working Tigers to be used as props. Haha. And Top Gun was made in 1986. Certainly not the Cuban Missile Crisis, but I have a feeling the Soviets wouldn't turn over military aircraft for a US production...

However, weren't the Soviet tanks in Red Dawn actually quite close to resembling the originals?

I think the Indian Air Force had Mig-21's in 1986. I'm sure if they had tried they could have got them!

I think those days of using the wrong kit are over with the advances in computer animation. Look at 'Saving Private Ryan'.

But you can look at 1977 'A Bridge too far' too, all the right kit.

[bootlegga]

EyeBrock wrote:

commanderkai wrote:

EyeBrock wrote:

It's like movies that use American tanks and pretend that they are Panzer SS Tigers. Just not good!

True, but it's not really easy to find fully working Tigers to be used as props. Haha. And Top Gun was made in 1986. Certainly not the Cuban Missile Crisis, but I have a feeling the Soviets wouldn't turn over military aircraft for a US production...

However, weren't the Soviet tanks in Red Dawn actually quite close to resembling the originals?

I think the Indian Air Force had Mig-21's in 1986. I'm sure if they had tried they could have got them!

I think those days of using the wrong kit are over with the advances in computer animation. Look at 'Saving Private Ryan'.

But you can look at 1977 'A Bridge too far' too, all the right kit.

No to mention that the US had tons of Soviet equipment, courtesy of defectors, stuff captured by the Israelis, etc. If they had really wanted some sort of Russian plane, it probably was possible, they just took the easy (and cheaper) route.

[-Wario-]

SprCForr wrote:

I foresee SeaKing 2.0

Seaking 2.0 was in 1984.... we must be at version 7 now

the F-18s are about 26 years old. We received the first one in 1984