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by ggm 804 days ago
Odd choice of image. It's an F-16 story and thats an F35?
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At least the F-35 doesn't have six fingers and ten wings.

All those "spot the difference between two photos" games from childhood are turning into critical life skills.

probably generated from the source of this article: https://www.azfamily.com/2024/04/05/report-fighter-jet-that-...
It's a variant of "use a 747" for a 380 story which happens all the time. Meh.. any plane will do.. (grabs stock shot of the red baron's triplane)
I raise you U.S. senator and house rep using photos of foreign rivals’ ships to wish U.S. Navy a happy birthday: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2021-10-13/us-navy-birth...
I mean, unfortunate, but Thailand is not a US _rival_.
The Thai ship is made by a rival, and the article also mentions an earlier instance of a Russian ship.
I remember an old illustration in a French newspaper, to explain how a military B747 mounted missile interception system would work. For the B747 they reused the last clipart they had around which if you looked closely was a TWA B747. An unfortunate choice as that was shortly after the TWA Flight 800 crash, which was long rumoured to have been shot down by a rogue missile.
My favourite was a story about Space Shuttle orbiter re-entry that was illustrated with a brick.
It's affectionately referred to as a flying brick by Shuttle pilots & commanders.
I love confusing paragliding and parasailing. Cessna and a Piper, ahh the chuckles.
News reporters are known for their extreme accuracy and precision, and their in-depth knowledge of subject matter. Maybe the MIC is still trying to convince US taxpayers to throw more countless trillions at nonfunctional pork projects for the benefit of Lockheed-Martin and uncountable layers of subcontractors? You know the A-10 just isn't whiz-bang enough for CAS roles because it can't run 13 nested levels of hypervisors and K8s.

     A-10 just isn't whiz-bang enough for CAS roles because 
     it can't run 13 nested levels of hypervisors and K8s.
The A-10 isn't whiz-bang enough for CAS roles because anti-air defenses are good, nearly ubiquitous, and cheap. And increasingly, man-portable.

If you're fighting a foe more advanced than "some guys with AK-47s" then your A-10 will not be particularly survivable in 2014.

Imagine a foe advanced and wealthy enough to have armored vehicles but it can't afford MANPADs or SAM installations.