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Old 31st Dec 2017, 17:36
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George K Lee
 
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While Typhoon performs some defence tasks now, it won’t take on all roles until 2018...

And as you know perfectly well, the missions for which Typhoon is being developed today are not the mission for which it was originally designed.

Nobody's holding up the Typhoon as a paragon. That's a strawman-fallacy argument, another diversionary tactic. The point is that a direct Typhoon-to-JSF comparison is simplistic and uninformative because of the very different histories of the programs.

Actually, in some respects the F-35 has been better managed than Typhoon: it has a single project office reporting to one DoD point of contact (OSD); it has never had a purely-budget-driven cut to its annual top-line*; and no significant upward change has been made to the JORD requirements since 2000.

All those factors are very good things for program management, but they also eliminate many handy excuses for delays and overruns.

* Such as "there's a war in Iraq/a budget crisis/etc. so we need to give JSF a haircut and slip IOC by XX months."
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