One thing to thank the F35 program for...
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One thing to thank the F35 program for...
USAF Acquisition Head Urges Radical Shift For Next-Gen Fighter Program
http://aviationweek.com/defense/usaf...ighter-program
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"Rather than spend the next decade developing a singular new air combat platform, the NGAD program may be shaped to establish a pipeline for acquiring, developing and fielding a host of new aircraft types, with a new design entering service perhaps as quickly as every two years. Instead of pinning all hopes on a single model, the alternative, if it works, would allow Air Force leaders to hedge against the risk of technology breakthroughs and to surprise enemies with unexpected new capabilities"
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“Quantity has a quality of its own.”
Sounds great in theory, but numerous small fleets, constant churn, and endless R&D sounds mighty expensive. But then again, the single "too big to fail" programs have not been cheap either....
This is better than fielding a very modular airframe skeleton, off which you could hang anything.
I'll offer a different 'lesson learned' and that is that F-35 is likely the last manned fighter the US will build. The rest will be controlled by AI, with hundreds of pounds of payload/gross weight removed for all of the things needed to put a human into the aircraft.
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I'll offer a different 'lesson learned' and that is that F-35 is likely the last manned fighter the US will build. The rest will be controlled by AI, with hundreds of pounds of payload/gross weight removed for all of the things needed to put a human into the aircraft.
I'll offer a different 'lesson learned' and that is that F-35 is likely the last manned fighter the US will build. The rest will be controlled by AI, with hundreds of pounds of payload/gross weight removed for all of the things needed to put a human into the aircraft.
What happens if the enemy's software writer is better than yours?
In respect of desktop/laptop computers I'd say that comes down to propaganda (or advertising) rather than software.
Microsoft are still going strong in their original role, Apple have morphed into a phone/media company (and are being overtaken by others). Sorry, thread drift...
Microsoft are still going strong in their original role, Apple have morphed into a phone/media company (and are being overtaken by others). Sorry, thread drift...
