S'pore wants to buy 100 of world's most advanced fighters
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Originally posted by bloodsucker:
Yes the F-35 has a variant that can do VTOL, but it makes no sense to have little ships carrying a few F-35s VTOLing for every mission. Conventional arrestor landings is still much more economical cos landing vertically consumes loads of time and fuel. Its not a smart idea to do so.
take off from those little pontoons then land on airbase luh...
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Yea and one little missile towards the pontoon and poof! $50 mil of tax payers money just disappeared! lol.. Not feasible lah, seriously.
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Only time will tell, we shall see
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Yeah i think that planes that can take off vertically are more beneficial for our country due to the constrains in land space. The financial aspect should not be a large problem to the military of SG. Those little pontoons maybe useful as well, they are small and have a low IR signature if i'm not wrong, thus in the worst-case scenario that all airfields in SG can't be used, maybe we could rely on a more advanced version of those.
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We already have those. They can take off vertically, land vertically, fight on land, air, sea and space! Just that they are damn top secret and classifiedest to the maximumest of security clearances.
We got 2 programs, 1 called Gundam, the other called VF-1
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not again...