Originally Posted by
Foghorn Leghorn
Those capabilities should be/is the answer if we want to train for the near-peer adversary otherwise the wrong lessons just get consolidated for another few years. Unfortunately, the MoD come with the shopping list above and don’t understand why they get laughed at when they are only willing to pay for a slack handful of low-capability aggressor aircraft. Bit like walking into a BMW garage and only wanting to pay Ford prices!
Oh come on, AIR (and MOD) don't want to even pay Ford prices! The irony being that if they didn't add superfluous nonsense to requirements documents, nor hold industry at arms length and actually worked with them, you could very easily end up with something that is viable for the price they're willing to pay. More so if you exploit technology as it matures enabling you to achieve that 50/50 or 60/40 balance by injecting it in at the right time. The hard part is getting AIR to understand its dependencies when their own programmes within a portfolio don't even talk to each other to ensure coherence to exploit synergies. Must be that quality P3M organisation they have, oh wait..........