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The program wasn't
really "cancelled." The Pentagon decided not to buy the remaining aircraft that was proposed in the over all contract. I think we're talking an additional 50 aircraft.
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The program wasn'tI suppose this is also true of the US services, since the F-22 program has ben cancelled and the F-3 will replace the A-10 and F-117 in the long term.
The Seasprite's avionics weren't developed in Australia.
No, I don't think that we'll ever buy Russian equipment. In fact, I think that we may never buy anything other than American equipment. The decisions are totally political.
Iran has already shot down more than a dozen of such aircraft during the last 4 to 5 years.
The drone was programmed to destroy such data in the event of a malfunction, but it failed to do so.
Do you think that kind of information would be published? There are many parts of the stealth systems that are classified.
Looks like the F35 will be more expensive yet again...
JSF Nieuws.nl » JSF - Pentagon confirms: "Serious design problems" (dutch site but this page is in English)
YEP! And a production model crashed on take off because of a production defect.Makes you wonder what would have happened with the F-117 if the testing had been done in the media eye. This is especially true when you consider that both "technology demonstrators" (prototypes) crashed.
Almost every aircraft thats come down the pike in recent memory has had the same crap happen to it, if your old enough remember the F14 prototype crash the Osprey , the F111 was big one , the F15 prpotype crashed , the C5 had problems that req'd major rectifying on their upgrade with the spars IIRC . Let the engineers back to work and shuffle the reporters back to where they belong covering the now 4 year primaries in the US
How I missed this 1 , I just had finished my shift when the 3rd F20 pranged in GooseDon't forget Gripen crashed too.
What's funny with this report is the "team" seems to contradict itself on pages 19 and 20 but does say each variant should be reviewed separately, but the media seems to ignore that and reports about scrapping the whole program. Read the first and last paragraph on page 19!
I seen nothing here that should prevent all 3 versions from being built with the exception of available funding. The issues "found" can be fixed and these issues would be typical in any new combat aircraft. Just more government bashing of the contractor and the media going along for the ride.