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Newest U.S. Stealth Fighter ‘10 Years Behind’ Older Jets
The Daily Beast ^
| 12.26.14
Posted on 12/27/2014 4:24:07 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
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.
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12/27/2014 6:34:24 AM PST
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spokeshave
(He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
To: Vermont Lt
“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 ...
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12/27/2014 6:41:43 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Yo-Yo
That’s what I thought, didn’t believe that rubbish about not having a laser designator.
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12/27/2014 7:51:13 AM PST
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Patriot777
(Imagine....that we could see Obama being hauled out of the White House kicking and screaming?)
To: sukhoi-30mki
Thus lies the problem in the U.S. military industrial complex. They purposefully build products that require mass amounts of money to upgradeThat's not a bug, that's a feature.
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12/27/2014 7:52:31 AM PST
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Jeff Chandler
(Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
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.
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12/27/2014 8:56:50 AM PST
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Tallguy
To: sukhoi-30mki
Some Beasty women should find something to do other than journalism on military and technical issues.
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12/27/2014 10:26:46 AM PST
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familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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