Originally Posted by
Mogwi
They will need to develop the platform and prepare it for service entry in 2035, before five years of “rapid spiral development” to ready it for the front line….
That doesn’t sound very good for an aircraft!
Mog
Is that not the same philosophy the USAF had for the F-15 - introduce it into service quickly but at a very baseline standard, and then rapidly spiral develop it once it's operational? The advantage being that you're not shooting for the impossible 100% solution that would prevent the aircraft ever entering service in the first place.