We Are The Mighty: The US has sent the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter into combat for the first time, CNN reported Sept. 27, 2018, citing defense officials.
A Marine Corps F-35B, launched from the amphibious assault ship USS Essex, conducted an airstrike in support of ground clearance operations on a fixed Taliban target in Afghanistan Sept. 27, 2018, according to a statement from US Naval Forces Central Command. The Essex arrived in the Middle East in early September 2018, with the onboard F-35s being deployed for intelligence and surveillance operations in Somalia prior to operations in Afghanistan. read more
I appreciate our defense but that is a whole shitload of tax dollars in flight.
And one crashed today too. Better keep flying them damn F18’s. A superior platform in every way.
I like the warthog for close in support.
O/T but US Ryder Cup Golf tees up in Paris in about ten minutes.
US down 3 vs 5 matches
Old Guy
They don’t launch off Aircraft Carriers all that well. But rest assured, Trump just dumped a shit load of money towards A10 maintenance.
We are going to need those jets over here – civil wars are a bitch.
That jet is a flying boondoggle and that’s about it.
I noticed the Chinese haven’t copied it!
All that $tealth technology to defeat the fearsome Taliban air force…
Billion dollar sledge hammer for a $2 bag of nuts.
Wow! Didn’t realize we had so many authorities on military systems here.
Wow! Just wow!