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This is just an attempt to get funding for aircraft that will be bad. Any new aircraft they develop to be cheaper will suffer the same scope and budget creep t
by beckingz 6y ago
This is just an attempt to get funding for aircraft that will be bad.
Any new aircraft they develop to be cheaper will suffer the same scope and budget creep that the F-35 did.
We won't send pilots out in planes that are known to have low survivability, so when the new aircraft is insufficiently stealthy/fast/survivable, more money will be spent to make it even worse than the F-35.
- leoc 6y agoThere's at least one proposal to get around this by adopting a foreign design like the Saab Gripen: http://www.stairwaypress.com/bookstore/american-gripen/ http://www.stairwaypress.com/bookstore/american-gripen/ . The US could rename it the Freedom Chimera and manufacture it under license in Kentucky to manage the politics.
- greedo 6y agoI have a bridge I'd like to sell you... The Gripen is a fine aircraft, but introducing a foreign made aircraft into the USAF doesn't happen very often. I can only think of two examples, the Canberra bomber (B-57) and the Dauphin helicopter the Coast Guard bought in the 1980's. Plus new-build F-16s would be better at most roles than the Gripen.