SlowMan and Bluewings, the two of you are the joke of this site.  For example, your inability to tell the difference between posters who are writing from personal experience and those writing from what they've read is truly lame.  I mean aside from your inability to tell what is the truth (and of course no matter who is posting, their content still needs to be valid)--at this point I'm just taking about figuring out who has lived it and who has only read about it.

 

Myself , I am very amused at the Japanese request . I know the reason why Japan is asking for infos on the aircraft and I also understand the stupidity of the Japanese .

 

 

Dear BW:

 

Can you tell us what is our stupidity?

 

Maruben

And the next reply from BW will probably say something along the lines of "its stupid because they should be asking for the details about Rafale, because it PWN's the F-35!"

 

 

A truck driver is questioning GF's knowledge on this site.

I should also point out that I have no problem in being corrected, and have no problem in changing my views, there are any number of people in here who I have disagreed with but accepted their position because they've demonstrated competency beyond google and wiki.  I object to these two twits because they pretend to be knowledgable and yet time and time again fail to demonstrate coherent technical competency.  

what I object to is people who have prior "form", who have been exposed as liars, who don't understand technology basics and scrape the internet and present articles to pretend that they do, often without understanding the detail in an article, or the implications of technology sets as a system, or people who don't understand the logic of why and how systems operate, and those who pretend to be something that they aren't.  People who focus on platforms as though its some kind of 21st century jousting competition, and people who quote platform stats as empirical evidence of capability.

Those idiots have the gall to question people who not only demonstrate technical competency, but by the tone and thrust of their responses demonstrate more than the text book knowledge.proffered up by these 2  fan clubbing trolls.

I can think of more than a dozen people in here who I've either met when overseas or had verifiable and traceable correspondence with who have been pilloried by these 2 idiots.

go figure.

They want access to research information for free, as usual. There really is not much to "know" once you understand how their trade and industrial policy works.

 

I'ld guess that Japan has made their defence industry the next focus of MITI support. They want the F22 not because it is the best and most cost effective option available for defence. The want the F22 to use as shortcut in getting research and know-how for building up their own jet fighter industry.

 

As for Japanese stupidity, that may not be a match for the other stupidity that's out there.

 

Well, Japanese F-X is technically an open competition, where all candidates must be evaluated and converted into score which must be released to the Diet later. Japanese DoD needs hard data to run this comparison, but was told they must pay $10 million to get that data, stealth data not included.

@ Bluewings12



> Myself , I am very amused at the Japanese request . I know the reason why Japan is asking for infos on the aircraft and I also understand the stupidity of the Japanese . But this is another story ...



Well, Japanese F-X is technically an open competition, where all candidates must be evaluated and converted into score which must be released to the Diet later. Japanese DoD needs hard data to run this comparison, but was told they must pay $10 million to get that data, stealth data not included.

Slowkid, please stop and actually READ the comments.

 

The Japanese F-X program is open, yes we get that. But the JSF Consortium in NOT OPEN. You can't barge in and ask for technical information for free when all the other partners of the consortium have paid for such information in development costs, etc. This has been stated about a dozen times now in this thread by gf, what don't you get about that???