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Is kicking out Turkey from the F-35 fighter program the reason why the F-35 has become a failure?
Former Operations Specialist at United States Navy (USN) Eric Wicklund answers this question on quora as:
The F-35 is far and away the most successful stealth aircraft in the world. There are 890 of them in service with various nations. No other stealth fighter has matched production numbers like that.
There have been more F-35s placed into service than ALL of the F-22s, Chinese J-20s, Russian Su-57s, B-2s, B-21s, and F-117s…combined!
Yes, Turkey should have got some of them, and they would have. The US and NATO asked only that Turkey not import the Russian S-400 air defense system. Easy as that. And to all who claim that NATO members must follow the orders of the USA, well…Turkey is proof positive that NATO members don’t have to listen. Turkey bought the S-400 anyway, and that’s why they’ll not get the F-35. Yet Finland, who only now is joining NATO, already had a signed contract to get the F-35, prior to joining NATO.
To all who will claim that the F-35 is too expensive, citing the oft-published 1.5 Trillion price tag, well, that’s the cost of acquisition, maintenance, and upgrades for thousands of aircraft for the next 50 years. You show me another plane that has costs covered over that same period of time, and tell me what the number is. I’ll bet you can’t even find it.
Other detractors will mention that one F-16 or Rafale or Typhoon has shot down an F-35 in exercises. Well yeah, they did. There isn’t a single aircraft on this planet, that cannot “ever” be shot down. The West believes in “test until failure.” That means creating scenarios that are harder and harder, until the system of man and machine fails, then figure out how to avoid that failure. Then, once again, test until failure. What no detractor of the F-35 ever mentions is how many F-16s, Rafales, and Typhoons were shot down by the F-35 in exercises in response. Well, the answer is “hundreds.” I don’t have the exact number, but it’s very high, and that’s the whole point. If I shoot down many more of your guys before you shoot down mine, my guys/planes didn’t fail…yours did.
So, no, the F-35 is not a failure, it’s a stunning success. And Turkey not receiving the F-35 has no bearing whatsoever on that fact.
And if you don’t believe it coming from me, listen to Alex Hollings, who’s makes his living studying this stuff. Listen to what he has to say.
The F-35 is the most SUCCESSFUL stealth aircraft in HISTORY
The F-35 may have been an acquisition nightmare, but the resulting fighter is the most technologically advanced tactical aircraft ever to fly… and with creeping up on 900 airframes built, it’s also one of the most prolific.
If Turkey’s war hero and President Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, having defeated ANZAC and Greek-British armies, had not died in 1938, a year before WW2 broke out, would Turkey have entered the war supporting Hitler and would it have changed the outcome of the WW2?
“The current state of the world does not look bright at all. Every country strives to raise its youth with a different ideology. Italy clings to its fascist ideology. Mussolini, the dictator of this country, keeps shouting that he lives on the bayonets of eight million fascist youth. By dressing its youth in blackshirts, Mussolini is trying to instill in these conditioned youth to re-establish the Roman Empire, which has already sunk into history.
The Nazism that Hitler is creating in Germany is another great and dangerous analog of fascism. Hitler is a racist. Please note, I am not saying ‘nationalist’, but ‘racist’. He is a madman who sees the Germans as the supreme race. While trying to drag all German youth after him, he instilled this ideal in them… Let me just add that neither fascism nor Nazism has an end. Maybe I won’t live to see this… But the end of fascism is war, it has to lose at the front. And I see no possibility for either fascism or Nazism to survive at the end of this war.”
(Sabiha Gökçen, Atatürk’ün İzinde Bir Ömür Böyle Geçti, 1937 Memories, p.155)
“Unless a nation’s life faces peril, war is murder.”
(Adana Çifçileriyle Konuşma, March 16, 1923)
“Atatürk had come to Istanbul for the treatment of his teeth; he would rest during the treatment at Dolmabahçe Palace and would not accept any visit. However, on the morning of December 3, after lunch, he left the palace and took the way to Taksim to watch the movie All Quiet on the Western Front, prepared for him by Beyoğlu Cinema.
At the end of the movie, the leading soldier is killed by a stray bullet, but the incident is recorded in the daily report as ‘All quiet on the western front’. Just at this moment, my father (Cemal Işıksel) pressed the shutter button when he saw that Atatürk’s eyes brimmed with tears and his face became as if he was reliving the horrors of war.
When the film was over, Atatürk turned to Şükrü Kaya, the Director of Internal Affairs, and stated that the film was the most realistic document about the war and that it can be ‘inconvenient for the Turkish people who had just come out of the bloody war’.”
Atatürk had already predicted that World War II would break out and that fascism would have to lose at the front. He was also conscious enough to even consider the psychology of the people who had been fighting for many years and was determined to spend Anatolia’s resources on reforms and industrialization. Therefore, if he had been alive in World War II, he would have taken political steps against a leader he called a “fascist madman”, but he would probably not have been involved in the war.
His life was spent at the front, witnessing the real brutality of war with his own eyes, not with video games. and that’s why he said:
Among the many general elections of international consequence to watch this year, Nigeria’s, scheduled for February will be by far the largest; Pakistan’s, due by October, will probably be the loudest. But the most important will unquestionably take place on June 18, when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeks to stretch his rule over Turkey into a third decade.
The outcome will shape geopolitical and economic calculations in Washington and Moscow, as well as capitals across Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa. “What happens in Turkey doesn’t just stay in Turkey,” says Ziya Meral, a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. “Turkey may be a middle power, but the great powers have a stake in its election.”
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Please stop teaching the world ethics, before that, look in the mirror and learn your history. And deal with your own history. Your real history, not the whitewashed one. Accept it. Learn from it, learn what you did wrong, and stop doing that.
Europe colonized all other people with inferior technology so they could enslave their people, steal their resources so they would feel richer and bossier over us.
Western civilization merely a lifetime ago, has pulled regular people like you and me from the streets regardless of who they are, they could be the brightest minds on earth, earthshaking ground breaking scientists, it didn’t matter to them, still put them into gas chambers to kill them, for the sole crime of belonging to an ethnic group.
And accuse us the same crime? To dilute the horrible crime your democratically elected leaders actually really did?
The ones your ancestors have tried to kill have escaped to our countries with the help of our diplomats! Why did they do that if Turkish people is the psychotic murderers you like to paint us?
But we got over it, we are not that people, we learned from our mistakes you say…
These “culturally and morally superior” White folk, who define non-white people as “savages” even cut of their children’s hands when the slave fathers couldn’t meet the quotas.
No! You still haven’t learned. Today Western world is just as brutal and just as imperialistic.
West still steals, still kills people in millions on the guise of bringing democracy.
West have caused a civil war in Libya just to get cheap oil.
USA killed 3 million civilians in Iraq.
Racism is still a BIG issue. It is almost impossible to hold a position of power even in a company in Canada. You still encounter racism daily if you are a “Schwarz Kopf” in Germany. People still get killed by police because of the color of their skins in USA.
Kill your TV. Kill your Social Media. They all lie to you. You are not the white knights. You are the baddies.
Seriously leave us “non-white”, “non-western”, “unfree”, “undemocratic” folk alone. We don’t need neither your gratification nor your contempt. Just turn to yourselves, look yourselves in a mirror.
entire civilization is built upon colonialism, slavery, and genocides, whose ancestors have either wiped off an entire continent of people and occupied their land.
