Newest U.S. Stealth Fighter ‘10 Years Behind’ Older Jets

The Daily Beast ^ | 12.26.14

[spokeshave]

For the same amount of money as just one of these, you could make 850 of these cheap aircraft. An armada. A close to unstoppable armada. For $390 billion, you could make 3,900,000 of these small aircraft. Enough to invade another world.

I think that is the direction the Chicoms age going.

[PIF]

“Yeah, the way this is going the next generation will have 2 propellers and six 50 cal machine guns.”

And will have four wings, be made of the ultimate stealth upgraded frame materials: wood and paper ...

[Patriot777]

That’s what I thought, didn’t believe that rubbish about not having a laser designator.

[Jeff Chandler]

Thus lies the problem in the U.S. military industrial complex. They purposefully build products that require mass amounts of money to ‘upgrade’

That's not a bug, that's a feature.

[Tallguy]

System architecture — for lack of a better term — gets ‘frozen’ when a design reaches production. When an aircraft has fundamental problems that delay production those systems can, and do, become obsolete before Initial Operational Capability. Happens to some extent with all aircraft, and ‘A’ models rapidly get Block upgrades.

[familyop]

Some Beasty women should find something to do other than journalism on military and technical issues.