r/CredibleDefense • u/AutoModerator • 12d ago

Active Conflicts & News Megathread August 27, 2025

The r/CredibleDefense daily megathread is for asking questions and posting submissions that would not fit the criteria of our post submissions. As such, submissions are less stringently moderated, but we still do keep an elevated guideline for comments.

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u/camonboy2 12d ago edited 12d ago

Sorry if this is not allowed here, but apparently there's been another f35 crash.

Seems like almost every year there's such an incident. Do we have any data on what is the most common failure of the f35. Also is the frequency of such incidents normal? Up to what point can we say they are just not very reliable? Do we have reports on SU57 incidents?

PS just a layman

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u/scatterlite 12d ago

You shouldn't read too much into this, as yes accidents are relatively common for combat aircraft  in active service. You can look at the records of other aircraft, like for example the F-15, to see a long list of accidents. They tend to become less common over time as technical issues are resolved and experience with the aircraft increases.

Also no reason to compare to the SU-57 with its tiny production run.