Well it hovers... The F-35 that is...

[Slartibartfast]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/18/f35b_hover_flight/

 

Looks like the F-35 hovers... and the more I look at it the more I prefer it to the godawful Boeing effort...

[Rambler 1-1]

It's stealth, supersonic and it can hover. That is just plain old awesome.

 

Where have I heard of that combination before...?

[macelena]

It's stealth, supersonic and it can hover. That is just plain old awesome.

 

Where have I heard of that combination before...?

 

If just Jessica Biel drove one of those...

[TX3RN0BILL]

No friggin way! The F/A-37 is way more sexier than the F-35... although of course Jessica Biel's looks beat all, hands down, no questions asked!

[Nesher]

didn't it do it 2-3 years ago?

anyway, one hot jet... too bad it's coming later than expected to Israel

[+JediMaster]

The X-35B did it even farther back than that.

[shotdown]

It's stealth, supersonic and it can hover. That is just plain old awesome.

 

Where have I heard of that combination before...?

 

The millenium Falcon, of course.

[+Dave]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35678731/ns/politics/

 

Check this out! Yikes

[Rambler 1-1]

The millenium Falcon, of course.

 

Actually, I was thinking of Airwolf, but whatever.

 

As for the price, maybe Lockheed just jacked it up because they realized how awesome this puppy is gonna be, and they figured the air forces of the world would pay anything for this piece of kit.

[+JediMaster]

No, according to LM the price will be half that. You basically have groups of people with no real qualifications, other than they're civil service and can't be fired for anything short of pedophilia, trying to tell the future.

Anyone remember when we didn't look at how much the entire program was going to cost? Look at how many F-16s have been built and how much has been spent on them over the decades...you think if they had been presented that number in 1975 that the F-16 would've made it to production? Nope.