Comments on: 50% Fewer Joint Strike Fighters?

By: Blacktail

Blacktail — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:29:36 +0000

By the time production is complete, we’ll have just about enough to use on one Aircraft Carrier.

Which is good, because by then we’ll probably only have ONE Aircraft Carrier (at the same cost as out current 10 Carriers combines, no doubt),

By: Vitor

Vitor — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:28:54 +0000

And the Gripen has plenty of american components already.

By the way, it’s always fun to see how quick and efficiente american companies are when involved in internation sales/competition.

By: Bram

Bram — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:17:07 +0000

Are we done yet with design by committee and a piece of it built in every Congressman’s backyard?

We would have been better off calling Saab Aerotech, ordering 2,000 of their latest Gripens and installing our electronics. First off, we would actually get the planes. Second, we would spend a quarter as much.

Or, we could do like the Indians and evaluate actual built planes and order the best.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_MRCA_competition

By: Vitor

Vitor — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:05:53 +0000

The F-35 is such a mess, and for a quite a very hi-tech fighter that is quite mediocre as an air plane.

By: Mike Burleson

Mike Burleson — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:51:06 +0000

Prediction: The USA will only buy 500 of these last century wonders, IMHO.

By: Blacktail

Blacktail — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:45:37 +0000

Remember when the YF-22 was supposed to cost about $80 Million, 650 or so were planned, and exports to NATO customers were envisioned?

The F-35 is the F-22 all over again, only worse. It’s original cost target was $30 Million each, and they now cost more that 400% more, half the “participants” want to drop out, and of the “3100″ aircraft that were planned, only half are going to be built.