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It's by Lockheed (like the F-22) and we spent crazy amounts of money on it, why the hell is the F-35 deficient here?
by tmccrary55 5y ago
It's by Lockheed (like the F-22) and we spent crazy amounts of money on it, why the hell is the F-35 deficient here?
- jghn 5y agoThey're different planes with different optimizations being made. Airplanes are one giant set of tradeoffs.
- toiletfuneral 5y agoYeah, the f-35 is optimized to cost as much as possible (Edit typo)
- sudosysgen 5y agoNot really. The main limiter for supercruise in the F-35 is sub-par stealth coatings that unlike the F-22's cannot handle the heat. Otherwise it could supercruise, maybe with some engine tweaks.
- jghn 5y agoThings like cost, politics, etc are also part of the optimizations being made for these planes.
- sudosysgen 5y agoYou can see it that way. It's really more politics than cost in this case though. From an engineering perspective local political optimization of a national project is what I would call ineptitude. But you can call it by another name.
- jghn 5y agoI don't disagree. But it is what it is, and part of how things get done these days for better or for worse.
- ldh 5y agoThat's absolutely true, and it definitely matters when you're designing something that will see productive use for the benefit of the people paying for it, but it's not obvious that that's the case here.
- ldh 5y agoHear me out...what if we could get both contracts?!
- SyzygistSix 5y agoBecause ideally all supercruise does is allow enemy planes to get closer to an F-35 firing solution faster.