Originally Posted by
MSOCS
KenV,
Before you invite our resident pitch-fork-wielding experts into 6 further pages of ground-swallowing debate, you may wish to heavily caveat exactly what training you think could be offloaded from an F-35/F-22 onto a training aircraft!
For example, general seat-of-the-pants jet flying experience; g tolerance; 3-1 procedures versus other agencies (CAS with JTACs etc); BFM; ACM; other Air/Maritime and Air/Land integration activity.
You won't necessarily be doing many of the mission sets in the same way because of the different platform characteristics so one must be careful not to transpose them.
But yes, the financial principles behind surrogacy are sound.
so about these fleets within fleets then and the seemingly monumental cost to the taxpayer of modifying the fleet to an operstional standard again ?
