What has made the F-35 the object of virulent criticism? First and foremost, it's about cost and flight and "performance" parameters. The aircraft has been accused of being too slow and not maneuverable enough, suggesting that it makes a ridiculously easy target for older Russian Su-27 fighters. The F-35's pride was not brought by the fake air battle it fought with the F-16 last year over the Pacific. At the time, the old "hawk" defeated it. In the end, the Pentagon explained that the copy of the F-35 that took part in the test was not equipped with standard combat armament, and did not have a "stealth cloak", which increased its detectability.
F-35 aircraft for everything so in total for nothing. With underslung armaments on the outer nodes it loses "invisibility" to radar. Inside there is room for only 2 medium-range missiles. During sham combat, it has not outmaneuvered the F-16, so in this respect it is inferior to the F-15, F-18, F-22, Mig-29, Su-27, Su-30, Su-35, and Eurofighters and Rafale. It is slower to oldies such as the MiG-25 and Mig-31. Thus, as a fighter, its usefulness is highly problematic. As a support aircraft, it is too fragile and takes too few armaments, well, and it needs fighter cover if only in the form of the F-15. Overall, it is not a combat aircraft but a product whose primary purpose was to extract money. In this respect, it is the absolute record-holder and the undisputed leader.
@kuchinster we're to pretend that the F-16 and the F-35 are modern war planes. It would seem that the majority of the US defense budget ends up in the pockets of the uni-party members. F-16 & F-35 airplanes may be ideal for defeating unarmed civilians but on a modern battlefield they may be found lacking.
For seeing people, this is no secret. The overblown #financial part of the U.S. #economy as a huge hematoma has collected all the blood of the economy - money. As a result, the other organs of this economy are dying and dying. In essence, #capitalism is a #cancer.
It will probably be a long time before people realize that you have to live as a family, take care of everyone, and don't worry about personal welfare, others will take care of you. When you care about the well-being of every member of society, not your personal pocket. When no one will be deprived and deprived of public goods. But for this there must be a sufficiently intellectually developed society where everyone knows the measure and has a conscience.
@kuchinster for a time, I would have considered that, that long time to be, the utopian fancies of fools and dreamers. I would have condemned such a time, or place, to the solitary prison cells of communism and socialism. However, such is a man's mind when he cannot venture, outside of the walls in his mind, which he himself helps to securely construct. Now, I realize, that only when faced with the real motivations, of those who would seek to control the entire fibres of man's will, his very being, will such a realization explode in the minds of men. When the very things, which once they sought pleasures, hope, or solace in, are used as traps and snares to deprive them of the access, to everything that they own, under the threats of compliance or conformity, then will they realize, such a time and it's urgent need to exist.
In a sense, it is true that when one is totally devoid of everything that one once held dear, then and only then, can one truly be free. When one is unencumbered with all those accumulated distractions, then perhaps, there will be enough room to worry about the personal welfare of others. It is at that time when man is at his lowest, when he wishes that there was something, anything, that exists, which could possibly help to take care of his current, present condition, that such a capacity, opens up. It now seems, a real clear path ahead and it may not be so far flung in time or outside of reality, indeed.
@techriot Posting with Hubzilla You don't have to be at the bottom to expect care. As you have probably heard many times, in the Soviet Union there was free education, free medicine, compulsory employment upon graduation, annual paid vacations and very cheap trips to places of rest. Nobody worried about the state taking care of people, and all the benefits were national, i.e. if everything you see around you belongs to you, why should you steal? If neighbors and friends have approximately the same apartments, cars, dachas, all people in comparable jobs have approximately the same income, in general, the difference in incomes of citizens without extremes. It was a Soviet society, where even policemen usually did not have a gun and nobody knew what drug addiction was, young people were busy in free circles, girls for example in sewing and sewing or sports, boys in aviation modeling circles, radio circles or sports again. Our just society was betrayed by the party nomenclature, which betrayed socialist and communist ideals. The party top brass was steeped in hedonism, which wanted to consume more and more, and there were no mechanisms to control this central body of the communist party.
You don't have to be at the bottom to expect care.
it is true that one does not have to be down and out, at rock bottom to care but it can be a good place to start. Sometimes the realization that the welfare of others may be more important to a man, means more when he reaches that destination by himself outside of the grasp of convention or of a governing state. It may be possible to force this place in time where people care for one another but such a cohesion will only be temporary. Some things must come to a man naturally in his thoughts at first and then it may become a part of him. Only then when such thoughts become routine will they manifest themselves in his reality.
If men are to be forced to do that which is right then only skillful, hidden, force and motivations will work and even so, they will only work temporarily. When a man is battered through his own misunderstandings, folly and series of mistakes, until he realizes that everything in life, is nothing but vanity, that is the bottom. That is where he can finally agree that if life is indeed vanity and it matters not, if he lives or dies. Then, even with that base revelation, he then conducts himself in a manner choosing to consider the welfare of others, over his own, then that is a time of hope.
@techriot Posting with Hubzilla I have met such people who are spiritually down, then they go to church (where they are taught love, compassion, etc.) and these people realize that it is possible to live differently, that the soul is most important and one should live by good deeds. But I don't like church mediators (since the tsarist times in Russia they mostly didn't care much about the interests of ordinary people). One can come to enlightenment (well, at least partial) by self-development, trying to understand how everything works and reading a lot. Expansion of knowledge makes a person free when he sees the essence of what is happening, not a superficial picture.
A person is a creator by nature, it is necessary to let him understand this and unlock the potential for his soul to create. It seems to me that people should not be forced to do good, anyway a person will do it in his own way. The human soul is in charge of the body, unlike the body, it is immortal (information is indestructible) and accumulates experience on Earth in each of its reincarnations, after which it goes back to the information-energy sphere (or I don't know how to call it correctly), where it has no opportunity to create, but only an observer.
@kuchinster again, it is hard to disagree with such thoughts. I too do not adhere to organized religions. It is so to know who to trust. It is hard to find the mind's construction in the face of a man or indeed, his words either. No, I think that I dwell in the man who I doubt was ever truly spiritually down, but by his own arrogance, hatred, impulse and mistakes have been forced into introspective, reflection. A self accounting, if you will. It is always a struggle keeping one's thoughts, deeds, habits and speech on the right path but nothing of value in this life comes without some effort or thought.
It's timely that you mention the observer, since, in this life, which is temporary in this space, one often sees oneself, as just being an observer a witness of one's experiences and the perceptions of the experiences of others which one interacts with. There is nothing else to ponder, except to develop a purpose.
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kuchinster mag das.
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In a sense, it is true that when one is totally devoid of everything that one once held dear, then and only then, can one truly be free. When one is unencumbered with all those accumulated distractions, then perhaps, there will be enough room to worry about the personal welfare of others. It is at that time when man is at his lowest, when he wishes that there was something, anything, that exists, which could possibly help to take care of his current, present condition, that such a capacity, opens up. It now seems, a real clear path ahead and it may not be so far flung in time or outside of reality, indeed.
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Our just society was betrayed by the party nomenclature, which betrayed socialist and communist ideals. The party top brass was steeped in hedonism, which wanted to consume more and more, and there were no mechanisms to control this central body of the communist party.
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If men are to be forced to do that which is right then only skillful, hidden, force and motivations will work and even so, they will only work temporarily. When a man is battered through his own misunderstandings, folly and series of mistakes, until he realizes that everything in life, is nothing but vanity, that is the bottom. That is where he can finally agree that if life is indeed vanity and it matters not, if he lives or dies. Then, even with that base revelation, he then conducts himself in a manner choosing to consider the welfare of others, over his own, then that is a time of hope.
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A person is a creator by nature, it is necessary to let him understand this and unlock the potential for his soul to create. It seems to me that people should not be forced to do good, anyway a person will do it in his own way. The human soul is in charge of the body, unlike the body, it is immortal (information is indestructible) and accumulates experience on Earth in each of its reincarnations, after which it goes back to the information-energy sphere (or I don't know how to call it correctly), where it has no opportunity to create, but only an observer.
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It's timely that you mention the observer, since, in this life, which is temporary in this space, one often sees oneself, as just being an observer a witness of one's experiences and the perceptions of the experiences of others which one interacts with. There is nothing else to ponder, except to develop a purpose.
kuchinster mag das.