Now that is a design flaw.

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F35 can't fly near thunderstorms.

The damaging findings were disclosed in a Pentagon document which revealed that a fault within the JSF’s fuel tank could potentially lead to catastrophic explosion if the aircraft was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm.
The report from the Pentagon’s Operational Test and Evaluation Office states that all test flying within 25 miles of thunderstorms is “not permitted” until a device in the fuel tank which maintains correct oxygen levels is redesigned.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...35-fighter-jet-known-as-the-Lightning-II.html
 
After a million bazillion dollars worth of R+D the fucker should work straight out of the box.

Could be worse. Could have been built by BAE to an MOD requirement. We'd be dropping concrete blocks on them by now.
 
One little flaw and people will want to bitch about it forever!:rolleyes:
 
German design flaw:

The target predictors for the anti-aircraft guns on the Bismarck weren't calibrated for aircraft as slow as the Royal Navy's Swordfish torpedo bombers.

British design flaw:

The proximity fuzes on torpedos dropped by the Swordfish didn't work. Fortunately their first attack was misdirected at a British ship. The Swordfish returned to their aircraft carrier and rearmed with contact fuzes.

Another British design flaw:

The WW2 torpedo guidance system didn't like very cold water. One ship escorting an Arctic convoy fired a torpedo and sank - itself.
 
CIA design flaw:

The CIA designed a listening device to eavesdrop on Russian diplomats in a Washington park. It was fitted inside a cat that was supposed to approach the unsuspecting Russians. What could go wrong?

1. You can't train cats. It went the wrong way.

2. It was run over and killed by a Washington cab.
 
Russian Design Flaw:

Many WW2 German tanks were almost invulnerable to USSR tank guns. Their only vulnerable spot was underneath.

The Russians trained dogs to crawl underneath tanks while carrying explosives which would be triggered by a switch on the dog's back. That would kill the dog and the tank.

What could go wrong?

The Russians trained the dogs with Russian tanks. The dogs would only crawl under Russian tanks because German tanks didn't have the scent they had been trained for.

Own goal!
 
NASA spent umpteen million dollars developing a pen that would work in zero G. The Russians used pencils.
 
The Tsarist Russians wanted a warship that would be a stable gun platform. They built them round with six engines. Novgorod

They wouldn't steer.

The British also wanted stable gun platforms for shore bombardment with heavy guns in WW1. They built monitors with a broad beam.

They were so slow they couldn't make headway against a tide.
 
The Germans devised three Vengeance weapons: V1, V2 and V3.

The V1 needed a complicated and large launching ramp that was easy to spot and bomb. The V1's guidance system was crude. They could control direction and time of descent, but the sneaky British kept reporting that the V1s were falling beyond London when they were actually falling short.

The Germans designed and built 150 piloted V1s that would actually be suicide missions for the pilots, but Germans didn't have the Japanese Kamikaze philosophy. here None flew into action.

The Germans devised a massive bunker to fuel and launch the V2 rockets. The propellant was unstable and could only be put into the rocket shortly before launch. The bunker, in Northern France, was bombproof from above. Bunker and La Coupole.

Barnes Wallis, a sneaky Brit, devised a bomb that would penetrate the ground beside the V2 bunker and explode underneath it. The V2 bunker was damaged beyond repair, never used, and is now a tourist attraction near Calais.

The V3 was a supercharged cannon that was intended to bombard London. The barrel was as long as two jumbo jets nose to tail. It was dug into a hillside, but the French Resistance reported its existence. It became another target for Barnes Wallis's bomb and never fired. It too is now a tourist attraction near Calais. V 3 Cannon

But the design flaw for all three was that the materials used to make V1, V2 and V3 weapons took essential supplies away from tanks, shells and aircraft that might actually have helped Germany to resist the Allies.

Sending V1s, V2s and trying V3 against cities was strategically useless.
 
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British Design Flaw:

They designed an all-weather fighter. It couldn't operate successfully at night.

Apparently 'night' is weather.

So all-weather but one.
 
F35 can't fly near thunderstorms.

Thank you for that useless bit of information.

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I remember when 60 Minutes tried to tell the world that the M1A1 Abrams, the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, and the Apache, would never perform in a desert environment and were huge wastes of taxpayer money.

The Bradley was until they spent bazillions putting it right. And that was down to the IDF.
 
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