Originally Posted by KC10 FATboy

I know I will get hell for this, but, I think the F-35 is a huge waste of dollars. We don't need it. We have the yet to be shotdown F-15 with the new radars and the F-22.

Our UAV force is now dropping bombs more than our fighters / bombers.

Why do we need this?

But, besides my controversial points, why couldn't the USAF develop an approach similar to a circling approach but with a descending turn in it? (something similar to the Hong Kong approach at Kaitai (spelling)?) I would hope that the new F-35 will have more avionics in it than the normal fighter tacan and ILS.

-Fatty