Fuck em both.
If a fighter jet is within visual range of a camera, it’s already too late. And that’s if there aren’t any clouds.
Part of the reason air defences mostly rely on radar and other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum from at least 3 locations using triangulation to build a precise map of objects in the sky, but just like cameras that doesn’t work when the objects in question are too high or hidden behind objects. From there you can send countermeasures to intercept coordinates and then arm them to search for nearby objects via infrared.
Using the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum is pretty much useless in modern weapons. I remember seeing even a Tank operator’s display being totally jank because they don’t use normal cameras either, perhaps because they wanted data to train machines to do it instead of human operators? Idk, didn’t make sense to me.
your not thinking like a musk, not if the government pays the subscription and contract for his early warning camera drone balloon swarm thing or something something they could run on ketamine or something.
I mean, in comparison to some of the F-22 variants, the F-35 is a pretty big piece of shit.
That VERY much depends on mission requirements. The F35 has issues, but calling it a big piece of shit shows that you’re an internet troll who has no idea what it’s talking about
No, the designers will tell you the same. It’s a compromise, it’s not perfect at anything but it’s very good at most of it’s intended purposes. It’s that old addage don’t let perfect be the enemy of great.
Don’t get me wrong I still think it’s smiling idiot twin is the cooler plane.
Assuming this is OC, next time do a little better at cropping and scaling. Ypu move that plane to the far right under yhe arrow and youve got 2/3 of the blank canvas to work with. I don’t expect much effort on meme post especially NDC but I would like to actually be able to read the tweets without zooming in and theres enough white space to scale them up.
“Théoden no longer recognizes friend from foe. Not even his own kin. Saruman has poisoned the mind of the king and claimed lordship over this land. My company are those loyal to Rohan. And for that, we are banished.” - Èomer, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
