A 9mm bullet at point blank range is as deadly as a long range tank shell, except you wont see it coming ~ an F35-B Lightning II is that 9mm pistol firing a tank shell!!! The F35 Lightning II is named after the first Lightning ~ the 1950s English Electric supersonic Lightning ~ the worlds first, all-British Mach-2 fighter, and the first aircraft in the world capable of supercruising – meaning it could break the sound barrier without employing afterburners. English Electric would eventually become BAE Systems, the company that brought STOVL and the Harrier jump jet to the world ~ another world-first, an aircraft like none before it, an aircraft favoured and flown by all of the western worlds leading Air Forces. This, in turn, has lead to BAE Systems becoming a necessary and principal industrial partner (and to the UK becoming the only full partner with the US) in the F35 Joint Strike Fighter program in order to bring STOVL & VOVL capabilities to the pedigreed F series stealth fighter bombers. More than 20%of this state-of-the-art JSF aircraft is built right here in the UK. Take a look here as Squadron Leader Jim Schofield of the Royal Air Force takes the UK preferred F35-B Lighning II STOVL variant for a first spin at sea . . .
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 19:12:56 +0000
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