...comes anywhere near doing the CAS job done by 1100 of the bottom rounds -- fired by the proven-deadly GAU-8 in the A-10?
Posted on 09/09/2016 10:10:59 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
...comes anywhere near doing the CAS job done by 1100 of the bottom rounds -- fired by the proven-deadly GAU-8 in the A-10?
Every weapon system has these problems. If you wait until it’s perfect to field it, it will be in testing for 50 years and be long-obsolete before it sees its first deployment.
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Exactly! My boss left Bell to be VP of Quality on the F-111 program and then held the same position on the F-16 program for a few years before retiring. ...By pure coincidence, we ended up seated next to one another on a flight to San Diego for a multi-day international Quality conference. He said most of the problems those programs had involved trying to match the avionics with the designed airframe control surfaces.
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