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Old 14th Jan 2011, 06:57
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Squirrel 41
 
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It's not dead yet!

I'm sure that the US DoD will make JSF as a programme work eventually; indeed the USAF doesn't have much of an alternative, so Dave-A is going to be made to work, even though it will serve in much smaller numbers than the existing F-16 fleets. I'm also confident that the USN will also get Dave-C to work, not least because bureaucratically the USN is not going to want to surrender the LO game exclusively to the USAF.

Dave-B is, however, dead jet walking as far as I can see. Too expensive, too complicated, but most importantly, the ConOps and the mission set makes no sense at all.

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