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Old 3rd Mar 2017, 16:05
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George K Lee
 
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So, Fodplod...

Yes because it is still the most advanced system in existence.

I don't know what you mean there, and I don't think you do either. We love to use the word "advanced" because it sounds as if it means more than "newer". And what "system" are you comparing it to? Fighters? Military aircraft? Military aerospace systems?

Who can produce something equally capable any faster?

Capable at exactly what? As has been laid out in detail in this thread and elsewhere, the F-35 is not as capable as an F-22 in A2A. It can't hit moving targets very well, absent lots more time and money (and there's no fixed budget or schedule). EOTS is not as good as Litening 4 at what targeting systems do, let alone Litening 5 or Talios. And if the target's more than 400-500 miles from a safe tanker line it's no use whatsoever.

By virtue of the minds, money and other resources being applied, it is certainly better than anything else on the cards.

By this standard, we'd just award Oscars according to the production budget and Concorde would have outsold every Airbus.
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