The tricky thing is that, if we’re fighting someone else, like Russia, the F-35 just is the best all-around plane. Heck, “all-around” might not even be needed, there.
The whole point of the F35 was “youre dead before you even detect it”. The fact that the US hasn’t refuted the loss indicates to me that it did happen and it wasn’t a fluke.
Since I already got a reply about this, I’ll just copy-paste.
They hit one, out of how many that have been openly flying over Iran, day in and day out.
Probably, it managed to fly low over the one tiny patch of land that had a shoulder launched missile operator on it, and did so in broad daylight. That day, remove any of those variables, and the survivability goes from 99.9% to 100%, without even being careful.
It has a radar section like a large ball bearing, which is tiny, but not nothing, and not as small as a more “devoted” stealth aircraft. And, it’s not fucking invisible, you can still see it with your naked eyes! Literally impossible to shoot down was never the bar anyone set. Close to impossible, it achieves.
What, aren’t those two mutually exclusive? At least, if the F-35 has some way to fight back, and that’s a reasonable assumption for whatever shot this one down.
If always kills you before you see it, regardless of any measure of luck on your part, you can’t shoot it down. So, another way to put this, is it only kills you before you see it most of the time. And, almost all of the time vs. Iran specifically.
The only one threatening us is the country trying to sell us their weapons.
Russias is in too deep in Ukraine and trying to push into other nato nations.
For Russia to get to Canada, they pretty much need to go through Alaska anyways. I’m sure Trumpkin would allow it. I don’t know that the rest of the U.S. military would. At this point though, who knows.
I’m worried about the fascist ugly Americans more so than Russia.
And also, hasn’t Iran proved that they can knock down the f-35s?
Every stealth plane can be targeted if you have an actual visual on it and can send out heat seekers. The point is that they typically can operate much farther away and don’t get seen. But if you have thousands of flights you can just randomly get lucky and spot one. Losing a single plane doesn’t mean anything.
And also, hasn’t Iran proved that they can knock down the f-35s?
They hit one, out of how many that have been openly flying over Iran, day in and day out.
Probably, it managed to fly low over the one tiny patch of land that had a shoulder launched missile operator on it, and did so in broad daylight. That day, remove any of those variables, and the survivability goes from 99.9% to 100%, without even being careful.
Buying “smart” weapons from the US is a suicide plan.
*The Taliban has entered the chat
If we’re worried about them, anyway.
The tricky thing is that, if we’re fighting someone else, like Russia, the F-35 just is the best all-around plane. Heck, “all-around” might not even be needed, there.
Iran shot an F35.
https://www.trtworld.com/article/98473554ec5e
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/23/has-iran-brought-down-an-unkillable-us-f-35-jet
The whole point of the F35 was “youre dead before you even detect it”. The fact that the US hasn’t refuted the loss indicates to me that it did happen and it wasn’t a fluke.
Since I already got a reply about this, I’ll just copy-paste.
It has a radar section like a large ball bearing, which is tiny, but not nothing, and not as small as a more “devoted” stealth aircraft. And, it’s not fucking invisible, you can still see it with your naked eyes! Literally impossible to shoot down was never the bar anyone set. Close to impossible, it achieves.
Agreed. Dunno why you’re arguing that.
What, aren’t those two mutually exclusive? At least, if the F-35 has some way to fight back, and that’s a reasonable assumption for whatever shot this one down.
If always kills you before you see it, regardless of any measure of luck on your part, you can’t shoot it down. So, another way to put this, is it only kills you before you see it most of the time. And, almost all of the time vs. Iran specifically.
The only one threatening us is the country trying to sell us their weapons.
Russias is in too deep in Ukraine and trying to push into other nato nations. For Russia to get to Canada, they pretty much need to go through Alaska anyways. I’m sure Trumpkin would allow it. I don’t know that the rest of the U.S. military would. At this point though, who knows.
I’m worried about the fascist ugly Americans more so than Russia.
And also, hasn’t Iran proved that they can knock down the f-35s?
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/19/politics/f-35-damage-iran-war
Again, the only single country on the planet threatening Canada is the country trying to sell us the weapons.
Fuck America.
I’d anticipate in the future with the arctic conflict Russia will be a problem, but yes the more imminent is just the US
Every stealth plane can be targeted if you have an actual visual on it and can send out heat seekers. The point is that they typically can operate much farther away and don’t get seen. But if you have thousands of flights you can just randomly get lucky and spot one. Losing a single plane doesn’t mean anything.
They hit one, out of how many that have been openly flying over Iran, day in and day out.
Probably, it managed to fly low over the one tiny patch of land that had a shoulder launched missile operator on it, and did so in broad daylight. That day, remove any of those variables, and the survivability goes from 99.9% to 100%, without even being careful.
IF the USA allows those weapons to be used against Russia.
There must be an open source, self hostable, alternative out there!