ScottAS2

At least part of it because if it's a success, huge numbers of them will be bought, making them very cheap - both to buy, and to run. Great for Lockheed Martin, but not so much for the people trying to export Super Hornets, Gripens, Rafales and so on. Thus, they tend to get their friends in the aviation press to accentuate the negatives about the F-35. El Reg has an article on it if you want the details (page 2 is the most relevant; there's a link there to a rebuttal of one particular critic). In the interests of not starting a flame war and totally derailing the thread, I'll note that just because the criticisms are promoted by enemies of the F-35 doesn't necessarily mean there is no merit to them.

My apologies if this has been answered before, but I've been hunting around for ages, and even registered so I could use the search function. I've been doing some fiddling with Arma II warfare missions. Thanks to DB's Sanbox and some reverse-engineering, I've been able to figure out most of it, but I've been totally stumped by two things: firstly, how do you set the faction for each side? I always get USMC as BLUFOR and Russia as OPFOR. How do you get CDF or insurgents? I've tried placing units (including mobile HQs) belonging to those factions and synchronising them with the warfare module, but the warfare module spawns another HQ of the "correct" faction, and the placed units stand around like lemons because they don't have any commander. I presume there is some incantation one must include in the init common script, but I haven't been able to figure it out. The "War Welcome" scenario seems to use: BIS_WF_Common SetVariable ["eastFactions",[Localize "STR_FN_INS"]]; but this doesn't seem to make any difference for me. The second thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to control the units that can be built. Is it possible to change the list of available units, for instance prevent LAV-25s being built, or to add units that have been added by mods?