Originally Posted by
George K Lee
Well, actually, since the USAF started receiving and flying substantial numbers of airplanes, they have cut their planned full-rate production tempo from 80 to 60 jets a year, and their senior acquisition officer has expressed increasing concern about the need to upgrade the current jets with the next-gen processor and has actually asked Congress to not fund more jets than the AF has requested.
A deep dive into the DOT&E availability, reliability and maintainability numbers will tell you more about this than any 237 updates of LockMart's happy-talk Fact Facts.
What a piss dripping misery-guts you are George.
Deep dive investigation indicates that these online, active, service aircraft, that are technically ahead of whatever is being fielded by Russia or China.
They are front line weapon systems, presently in operation. Do tell us what is better???
Yup not perfect, what weapon system is. They are in development.