Begging your pardon, good sir, but I do believe that's a raven we're looking at, not a crow.

"Never more."

I agree with your general point.

I personally would never consider 'replacing' the A10 with the F35.

But I still think you don't design weapons for what you need now, but to be ready for what you could need in the future.

Su-35 / Mig35, pak-fa, J-10, J-20, fighter tech is moving along in the world. The goal of systems like the F35/22 is to remain superior in any theoretical/potential future conflict. The only thing the F22/35 have to do with today's conflicts is the possibility to be shoehorned into dropping bombs on some scare crows in the middle of nowhere.

Sure, people pick on the F35 for being fat and happy - but fighters are more than turn turn turn turn shoot. They are systems to sense/detect, share info, build a battle field picture, jam opponents, strike the opponent's sensors, build situational awareness while denying the opponent his own SA. They build an environment where your forces can maneuver around enemy forces, strike key locations, and leave (without an actual fight), so that the enemy eventually finds himself with nothing left to defend, and they just quit without ever fighting. Modern fighters are an information system as much as a weapons platform.

Even in WW2 the powers learned the lesson that a good fighter is not necessarily a good pure dog fighter. The zero was the best turning fighter of the war - and it sucked. US planes would just not bother dogfighting with it. US planes would fly high above, dive down onto a zero, shoot at it, fly right by, and zoom back up. They didn't have to dogfight, because they had more speed and altitude, and the zero was helpless, it was a fighter stuck playing defense in air to air combat.

Times changed, today's tactics are not speed and altitude, they are situational awareness and detectability. It's the kind of fighting the F35 is tailored for, and it's not worth being too hard on it for not being ideal for more classical combat applications.

-scheherazade

BOOM! Headshot... crow...

Wait. Pause. Rewind. I want to hear that crow caw again.

Biologists are learning that corvids -- crows and ravens -- may be more intelligent than parrots. I sometimes wonder why no one has suggested marketing crows as pets -- they could probably easily adapt to our environment as they are everywhere in our cities. They could probably even be trained by law enforcement for useful work.

Crows are extremely intelligent.

I feel like I'm missing something here - what is the crow saying? Is it the clicking?

If I didn't know better, that crow had a few people say that to him, and it just repeated as a greeting. I especially like how its feathers puff up when he says it.

That said, crows are supposed to be quite intelligent.

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Terrible President. Terrible. Awful. But we all knew this, didn't we? Oh no, that's right, some of us didn't, and the rest of us tried to warn you, but you didn't believe us. In other news, crow is fucking delicious.

Did crows ever make it to the moon? No?

Not the ultimate problem solvers then I guess.

This bird's not into the usual building materials for its nest, it wants only the finest most luxurious nest made from 100% human fur! That'll impress the lady crows

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