Originally Posted by Engines
The JORD included other items such as turn rate, sustained g, key dimensions, key weapon loads and so on. However, as MSOCS has pointed out, these weren't KPPs, and were inside the anticipated 'trade space'.
Thx and perhaps this is technically true (I'm not privy to such things, only public leaks where Bowman's doc showed performances being KPPed), but this is a fighter aircraft.
Wouldn't it be much cheaper and faster to evolve the F117 then, since apparently there is no supersonic KPP, either?
You see, where's the line?
Who's determining what goes and what doesn't and based on what criteria and why is traditionally crucial stuff solved ad-hoc, instead of being contracted?
I don't know, but this particular aspect the program doesn't make any sense to me.