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It Turns Out the F-35 Can Dogfight (defensenews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Writing for Defense News, Lara Seligman reports, "For the first time since a controversial report detailing how the F-35 performs in a dogfight emerged last summer, an F-35 pilot gave an in-depth analysis of his experience flying the jet in a close-range battle scenario. Norwegian Air Force Maj. Morten 'Dolby' Hanche, the first Norwegian to fly the F-35, analyzed the jet's performance in a dogfight in a March 1 blog post published on Norway's Ministry of Defense website. Although Hanche never mentions the 2015 report, 'F-35A High Angle of Attack Operational Maneuvers' revealed last summer by blogger David Axe on WarisBoring.com, he counters many of the anonymous author's claims."
Honestly, is the the right news groups for topics like the one in this thread? It doesn't contribute anything to anything and frankly if the people here are still stereotyping and actually establishing their universal beliefs based on these stereotypes, said people are really not contributing anything valuable to human kind.
Let's make this simple. The world has a lot of people. There are a lot of religions, races and nationalities... and if I understand an article I read a few years back, there are actually more than two naturally occurring genders, 17 if I recall the number correctly.
In every race and gender and nationality etc... there are every type of people. In my experience there is nothing within nature that decides whether a person is more or less of anything due to race, gender, etc...
Now, there are idiots, assholes, morons, schmucks, criminals, criminally stupid, evil, etc... in every category which seems to be proven by some of the contributors of this thread. It appears that society contributes greatly to deciding what kind a person one will be. I have learned that at least within America, there is a far higher likelihood that members of every genetic category will voluntarily choose to be the crap left over at the bottom of the barrel. On the other hand, like every other country on earth, America has an group of people which achieve excellence as well.
If you're the type of person who seems to think that race, gender, etc... define us and believe that the actions of the few define the many, then you actually do fit into a category yourself which you would truly find to be far worse than the categories you're placing others in. The good news is, most of these people usually end up removed from society in one way or another. The bad news is, it seems that at least some of them run for president.