{"id":32508,"date":"2015-08-25T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32508"},"modified":"2015-08-24T21:20:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T01:20:09","slug":"we-finally-find-someone-not-funded-by-lockheed-martin-who-likes-the-f-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/08\/25\/we-finally-find-someone-not-funded-by-lockheed-martin-who-likes-the-f-35\/","title":{"rendered":"We finally find someone (not funded by Lockheed Martin) who likes the F-35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I poke a bit of fun &#8230; there are defenders of the F-35 who are funded by other stakeholders &#8230; I kid, I kid! Here&#8217;s a contrarian take by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkdefence.co.uk\/2015\/08\/the-f35b-is-worth-it-but\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Think Defence<\/em><\/a> justifying the UK&#8217;s F-35 commitment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the 7 years I have been dribbling my thoughts into <em>Think Defence<\/em> there are a few things on which I have been consistent; the ISO container is the greatest invention since the Bailey Bridge, commonality is not a dirty word, logistics are critically important, and, the F-35B is worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Yet to be discovered tribes in the middle of the Amazonian rain forest could not have failed to notice the untrammelled hype that surrounds the F-35 in general, and the STOVL F-35B in particular. The amount of coverage is staggering, some of it informed, some of it not. Being developed under the un-staring eye of social media and a long line of people who seem to live for being critical has exposed every developmental misstep to ruthless criticism. Reports are often selectively quoted, conclusions drawn without context, over-simplification of complex subjects is rife and correlation confused with causation.<\/p>\n<p>It is also an extremely polarising aircraft, read anything on-line and it seems you are either a Lockheed Martin shill or thick as mince critic who knows nothing.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect, the reality is somewhere between, whilst the F-35 is not the cure for cancer, it is not cancer either.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f35b-power-and-propulsion-740x428.jpg\" alt=\"f35b-power-and-propulsion-740x428\" width=\"740\" height=\"428\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f35b-power-and-propulsion-740x428.jpg 740w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f35b-power-and-propulsion-740x428-150x87.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f35b-power-and-propulsion-740x428-480x278.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Although I have written about the F-35B many times, including this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkdefence.co.uk\/2013\/01\/looking-forward-to-an-f35-future-part-1-introduction\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 part series<\/a>, this is the first for a while<\/p>\n<p>Into this toxic environment I go, a look at the F-35B.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I poke a bit of fun &#8230; there are defenders of the F-35 who are funded by other stakeholders &#8230; I kid, I kid! Here&#8217;s a contrarian take by Think Defence justifying the UK&#8217;s F-35 commitment: In the 7 years I have been dribbling my thoughts into Think Defence there are a few things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,15,13],"tags":[145,617,559,30],"class_list":["post-32508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-military","category-technology","category-usa","tag-airforce","tag-carriers","tag-f-35","tag-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8sk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32510,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32508\/revisions\/32510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}