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Originally Posted by
glad rag
Glad Rag... you really are quite tiresome regarding the F35. The fact is that most aircraft are continually upgraded throughout their service lives.
A perfect parallel is your beloved Tornado, which is quite a different beast now to when it first came out of the factory. As is the Typhoon, even in its Tranche2 guise, which has evolved from no air to surface capability to a reasonable (whilst not earth shattering) capability. This air to surface capability, along with other capabilities (air to air, defensive suite etc) that will continue to evolve as new software standards, hardware and weapons are added.
What’s the point? If you stand still in mil aviation your going backwards. Why you would be critical of the JSF solely seems quite absurd.
But, the difference with Tornado was that during its 35+ years life cycle, it only had one real upgrade programme and the GR4 upgrade was primary the result of lessons learnt during GW1. The GR4 upgrade was NOT prior to EIS but over 10 years after.
The Typhoon update was the result of a change in role from A2A to A2G.
Both are completely different to the pre EIS updates of F35 which are essentially to achieve spec compliance.