GREAT BALLS OF FIRE
Jul 16, 2020
4 minutes
WORDS: STEPHEN DOBIE
PHOTOGRAPHY: STEVE SAYERS
Well, a Tornado is your old push-button phone with the antenna coming out, whereas the F-35 is your iPhone.”
Jim Beck is the station commander of RAF Marham in Norfolk, UK. Clearly identifying my scrambled brain, he’s breaking down into the baldest terms just what a revolution the Royal Air Force’s new F-35 Lightning II jets – which live at his base – represent.
“JUST AS OUR SMARTPHONES ARE SELDOM USED FOR ACTUAL VOICE CALLS, THE F-35 WILL RARELY FIND ITSELF IN A BRUCKHEIMER-ESQUE DOGFIGHT”
“This jet fuses all the data it receives together and only
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