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PostPosted: Mar 21, 2012 - 11:04 PM Reply with quote Back to top
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condor1970 wrote:

The other objective to achieve a production cost equal to or less than the current soring F-35, by doing this on their own, vs constantly having government oversight causing further delays and cost over runs. Just like the S-97 development. Basically, they're just letting the engineers go at it, and have fun with it. Kind of like the way the A-10 came about. They just let engineers build something, based on what the combat specs were, and the top brass and politicians just stayed out of it.

As a result, we all know how the A-10 turned out. The friggin' Ruskies hated that God aweful thing back in the 80's.

Lockheed returning to the system in which they perform best. The F-117 for example was under budget when there was little government oversight present.
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I suspect that the next "generation" of fighter aircraft will pilot itself, with the human as the "captain" making tactical decisions and picking targets while fully reclined on an acceleration couch. Anything less would seem like 5+.
Not that fighter "generations" are particularly well defined, other than 5th = F-22, 4th = F-15, and 3rd = F-4.

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