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Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Jun 2019, 19:52
Replies: 145
Views: 96,965
Posted By etudiant

Thought I'd read that the initial Spitfire design...

Thought I'd read that the initial Spitfire design was done with an explicit prohibition on any involvement/requirements setting by the ministry officials.
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Feb 2019, 03:02
Replies: 145
Views: 96,965
Posted By etudiant

Not sure that matters, this is an effort to keep...

Not sure that matters, this is an effort to keep options open, not the start of a serious development.
A Germany that gets half its gas from Russia is unlikely to enter into a conflict with its...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Nov 2018, 12:33
Replies: 145
Views: 96,965
Posted By etudiant

Germany has not paid much attention to its...

Germany has not paid much attention to its military, as the current low serviceability of its forces demonstrates. So it is a big ask to expect their political leadership to provide any coherent...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Nov 2017, 18:33
Replies: 145
Views: 96,965
Posted By etudiant

Is that not why we have senior staff? People who...

Is that not why we have senior staff? People who are supposedly past the FJ stage of their lives and who try to maintain an effective military.
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Nov 2017, 19:51
Replies: 145
Views: 96,965
Posted By etudiant

What am I missing. Technology allows...

What am I missing.
Technology allows inexpensive quasi autonomous combat vehicles, so much so that ethicists are raising cogent questions about their morality, yet these military staffs are...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Nov 2017, 19:04
Replies: 145
Views: 96,965
Posted By etudiant

Just so. Lockheed was his employer and he...

Just so.
Lockheed was his employer and he designed the U-2 under a government contract for the CIA. The USAF and DoD had no role afaik in the management or supervision of the work. Nor did Lockheed...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Nov 2017, 14:58
Replies: 145
Views: 96,965
Posted By etudiant

Afaik, he worked for the CIA, rather than under...

Afaik, he worked for the CIA, rather than under DoD rules, in the 1950s. Is there a more recent counterexample?
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Nov 2017, 17:11
Replies: 145
Views: 96,965
Posted By etudiant

We're now in the real of total fiction imho. No...

We're now in the real of total fiction imho.
No large defense program has ever come in on budget or on time afaik.
The normal experience in the US used to be 100% overrun, some much worse.
Here...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Nov 2017, 00:58
Replies: 145
Views: 96,965
Posted By etudiant

This project does not pass the laugh test. ...

This project does not pass the laugh test.
Germany and France are struggling with aging populations and unintegrated minorities, not foreign military threats (unless the Brexit goes totally...
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