The F-35 was rejected, why did the US military choose to buy the expensive F-15EX?
In terms of "shamelessness", if the United States wants to say that it ranks second, then no one dares to rank first!
According to an interview by the Observer Network on February 14, citing the US "War Zone"**, Lieutenant General Michael A. Lowe, commander of the US Air National Guard, said in an exclusive interview a few days ago
As an aircraft originally planned to be equipped with the National Guard, the F-15EX is both a homeland defense platform and a power projection platform, so when you think of modern warfareIt (the F-15EX) is a game-changer."These ranged advantages will allow us to gain air superiority in a combat environment across oceans.
What did Lieutenant General Michael A. Lowe, commander of the US Air National Guard, mean by this?
It's so fantastic! Just when the fifth-generation fighter is no longer exclusive to the US military, and at a time when more "powerful countries" in the military field in China, Russia and even the world have begun to develop and even look forward to the competition of the 5th generation + advanced fighter, the US military, which has always placed great emphasis on war air supremacy, has begun to "return to its ancestors".
In the mouth of Lieutenant General Michael A. Lowe, the F-15EX, known as the "most powerful fourth-generation aircraft", is not only about to get rid of its previous homeland air defense function, but also to act as a "game-changer" for air delivery across the ocean in modern warfare!
In addition to this, more details show that not only is the US National Guard about to purchase more F-15EX in addition to the planned 104, but under the integration of Combat Flight Procedures (OFP), the US military equipment procurement is also about to begin to open the door to the F-15EX on a large scale.
The high-end fifth-generation aircraft F-35 is not used, but the unit price of 90 million US dollars is used to buy the more expensive fourth-generation aircraft F-15EX.
In this regard, the U.S. "War Zone"** explained that the main reason why the U.S. military plans to purchase F-15EX in large quantities while the F-35 is not neededThe capacity of the F-35 production line is capped and the international market demand is strong.
Do you have a different "taste"?
Boy! How else to say that the United States is the leader of global capitalism, for the so-called spirit of contract, even in the matter of national defense construction, you must follow the first come, first served, even if you are the US military, you have to give me an obedient ** queue, I really can't wait, I honestly go to other "** low allocation", and do a good jobIncrease psychological readiness by 20 times** in future wars
Is it possible? It seems that it is to "slap the face", just when Lieutenant General Michael A. Lowe, commander of the US Air National Guard, praised the F-15EX in an exclusive interview, and at about the same time when the US "war zone" ** hollowed out his mind to scrub his ass and wash the floor, an F-35C "Lightning" fighter belonging to the 311th Fighter Attack Squadron of the Marine Corps Air Station in Mirama, California, was suddenly revealed to be parked after the training mission, and the nose of the aircraft fell to the ground due to the accidental retraction of the nose of the landing gear.
What do you say about this kind of accident?
It's really Kennedy sitting on the top, which makes people "brain-opening"! Of course, if this is just a special case, however, according to ***iationist".Such accidents have happened more than once with the A and B models of the F-35.
So, is it really just a small accident for the US military's F-35 to greet the New Year across the sea without saying a word? Or is it that the U.S. military does not use the fifth-generation advanced fighter F-35, but instead buys the first-class fighter F-15EX with a lot of money, there is actually a long story behind the various abnormal behaviors?
Little is known, and the United States "war zone" ** forcibly washed the floor, quibbling that the reason why the US military does not use the F-35 and plans to purchase the F-15EX in large quantities is because the F-35 is "in short supply" is completely different, in factAs early as July 2023, the U.S. military, after the failure of the "bullfight" with the advanced fighter of a major country in the western Pacific region, has officially refused to accept the new F-35 delivered by Lockheed Martin!
And this refusal has even caused today's Loma company in the United States to "hoard and pressurize"...
Whether you want to admit it or not, but it is:
Contrary to the conjecture of "the first combat power in the blue starry sky" that has been arched into the sky in the mouth of the United States, in reality, as the only fifth-generation fighter F-35 that can be mass-produced in the current US industry, is being rejected by the US military!
This is a rather fatal question.
In fact, as a "castration substitute" after the failure of the United States to try to restart the F-22 production line, the F-35, which was originally only intended to be used for export to earn foreign exchange, has been making trouble since the moment it was born.
The large number of "Made in China" that was exposed in the previous fighter manufacturing survey will not be discussed for the time being, and there are as many as tens of thousands of parts in the fault problem.
Didn't we say in the previous article about the US military's air raid on February 2 to take revenge on Iran, but in advance imploring the Iranian side to set aside a piece of uninhabited air space for the US military to bomb, and after being refused, it shamelessly spewed anger on several abandoned military camps in Iraq and Syria, and completed the "revenge against Iran" in this way?
Now that the U.S. military has been put into storage and put in Nanshan for many years, it is really degenerate! For them now, it doesn't matter whether they win the war or not, the most important thing is that they just need the whole world to think that they are "victorious again"!
The same is true of the US military and the US military manufacturers.
Therefore, it can be seen that the previous F-35 whether it is an air explosion or diving, or a grounding inspection of the whole army, even if the essence of the F-35*** has been fully revealed, as long as he can barely maintain the shape of a tiger, then the US Congress and those old men in the military can still proudly claim that the F-35 is "the first combat force in the blue star", and continue to ask American taxpayers and more allies to throw money at it.
However, now with the entry of the American-made F-35 into the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the paper tiger can't hold back.
On December 25, 2023 local time, the Israel Defense Forces announced the temporary grounding of 11 F-35I fighter jets belonging to the country's air force. The Israeli military statement said that the reason for the decision to ground "half of the number of fifth-generation fighters" was to conduct relevant inspections.
What checks? I am sorry, at a time when the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is hot, the surrounding Arab countries are obviously restless, and even the US military is being forced to take a detour by the Houthi slipper army, the Israeli side does not have a convincing answer to such an abnormal move.
What exactly is the truth?
In fact, as recently as last September, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) admitted in a report:
F-35 fighters are now only 55 percent in good condition."
Many readers may not know what a 55% uptime rate means. Let's put it this way, according to the normal maintenance rotation, the US F-35 fighter is only 55% intact, which means that the F-35 fighter that can actually perform a complete combat mission is actually only about 20% of the total! In other words, if the data of the US GAO is true, then this means that the number of fighters that can take off of the 450 F-35 fighters in service in the US military will not exceed 250, then this means that the US military will have less than 100 F-35 fighters capable of performing complete combat missions in actual operations. With the F-35 in hand, the world's number one military power has still fallen into this, so what kind of virtue should the remaining more than 300 F-35s scattered in many countries with the United States' allies such as Britain, Canada, Japan, Australia, and Israel have been designated as the core force of air operations?
Don't dare to think about it, and you can't think about it!
Yes, the F-35 program, which has invested nearly $2 trillion so far, has cooperated with more than 2,000 manufacturers, and has interests across many countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Oceania, has become a taboo topic that no one can touch.
The United States ** touched at night, and I didn't have to sleep to be pulled out to walk the convertible!
The British Prime Minister meets in the morning, and if he can't wait for lunch, he will be directly put on a andrographis!
However, the fact that politicians, chaebols, mercenaries, and defense contractors in Europe and the United States have all chosen to keep their mouths shut does not mean that those foreign forces that have been labeled as "anti-thieves" by the United States should also play with him. Iran, which previously refused to give the US military a "fireworks show", is a typical example, and the same is true of a certain oriental mysterious force that directly gave away a set of F-35 "rearview mirrors" for free! 
What about the Americans? The Americans are also panicking.
The U.S. military's "NGAD project" on the research and development of sixth-generation fighters has been roaring loudly, but until now, this so-called sixth-generation fighter research and development plan is still in the bidding stage, and its ultimate goal is only to "replace the F-22 fleet in active service in the U.S. military"! If progress is blocked, is it possible to keep it? In fact, Rong Ping believes that until this moment, many readers must be incomprehensible and even absurd about the failure of the United States to restart the F-22 production line and the various problems of the F-35 fighter that are becoming more and more blocked! Admittedly, there are some economic considerations. For example, in the delivery of the F-35, the United States Loma has always adhered to the model of blank delivery and optional plus money, and the diversification of demand customization and the instability brought about by the so-called "iterative update" have made the front-line pilots of the US military greet their ancestors!
But "money", while important, is not the main reason. In June last year, in view of the outstanding performance of the "Stinger missile" on the battlefield between Russia and Ukraine, in response to the order of the United States, the American Raytheon Company decided to restart the Stinger production line.
The order was placed in May 2022, but why didn't Raytheon officially restart until June 2023?
The reason is simple, because for a year-long period, Raytheon's technical department was demonstrating the possibility of restarting the production of Stinger missiles.
The first is that the employees who previously produced Stinger missiles have retired and have to recall engineers to look at the drawings and teach;
Then after the resumption of the production process, because the original production process has become outdated, in order to adapt to the current automated production mode, the lathe needs to be redesigned, the process needs to be revised and demonstrated;
This is obviously a time-consuming, laborious and expensive task.
Therefore, the plan given by Raytheon in the United States is that part of the production process will be replaced by pure hands, so at the moment of the 21st century, the Americans began to "rub missiles by hand".
And in order to train this part of the special workers, they are expected to spend 30 months on talent training!
A man-portable air defense missile still requires such a lot of work, and the difficulty of restarting a set of fifth-generation aircraft production lines can be imagined.
In fact, after years of "deindustrialization", Americans who have long since adapted to buying from around the world with green coins have long lost the ability of their fathers to be proud of the world.
Whether the F-22 production line fails to restart, the F-35 is riddled with serious illnesses, or the dignified US military lieutenant general does not want to say that the fourth-generation aircraft F-15EX is a "game changer", and the US military's sixth-generation advanced fighter project that has stopped at PPT with the naked eyeAll of them show that the United States today is fundamentally different from the United States that once made the world both awe and fear.
God", it should have changed!