Boeing plots return to next-generation fighter market

Flight Global ^ | 05/07/2010 | Stephen Trimble

[Feline_AIDS]

We’ll have to fight WW3 somehow. Hey at least Boeing is paying attention, even if Barry isn’t.

[verity]

1. Using the word 'plots' is unusual.

2. By 2025, this Country may find the aircraft unaffordable.

[Frantzie]

Try 2011. The country will be broke and that money is needed for social justice and equality.

The sheep keep watching TV which supports the regime. All the networks control 95% of the channels. The networks support you know who, are part of the left and support Islamification which is what they did in the UK.

“Oh but I watch Fox.” Fox is partially owned by the Saudis who are behine the mega mosque being built at Ground Zero in NYC.

[A.A. Cunningham]

We’ll have to fight WW3 somehow.

WWIII was the Cold War.

We've been fighting WWIV ever since.

[Leisler]

"F-35 replaces the navy's F/A-18Cs and the air force's F-16s and A-10s,

We're going to use F-35's to gun ditches with five third world guys with AK's and a RPG?

[gura]

Looks a lot like the Northrop F-23.

[stefanbatory]

by 2025, a war may make this expense necessary...

[GeronL]

ain’t no way the F-35 can do the A-10’s mission

[GeronL]

The aircraft could even be unmanned

[BikerJoe]

1. Using the word 'plots' is unusual. 2. By 2025, this Country may find the aircraft unaffordable.

It'll be affordable if we actually want to build it. I know some folks working on the F-35, and the reason it has cost problems is because (once again) its electronics and software systems are an order of magnitude more complex than the F-22, which in turn were the most complex we'd ever put in a fighter, etc., etc.

IMHO, the question is whether we should be spending a decade or more on systems engineering for a single multi-role platform or just make multiple, simpler platforms.

[verity]

"by 2025, a war may make this expense necessary..."

Then it will be too late.

[verity]

Seems as though many of the subsequent posters do not agree that we may go broke.

[GenXteacher]

Something to think about- a lot of money gets put into piloted aircraft. With the Predator drones, and the like, how far are we away from a remotely controlled fighter, with no actual pilot in it?

[Leisler]

China will loan us the money to...um...if...
( We can print it, too! )

[Sequoyah101]

Brilliant. Money for development of the 22 and 35 squandered for high cost low numbers airplanes.

At least Boeing can build airplanes and deliver them pretty much on time. Lockheed-Martin, not so much it seems.

Shared engines? In two airplanes with a 50% difference in weight? That’ll be interesting. One a rocket and the other a led sled.

[Joe Boucher]

I wouldn’t be surprised if by then all military fighters and bombers are pilotless.

[stefanbatory]

we could also design it so the electronics could be easily upgraded, but that would make too much sense, I guess...

[Frantzie]

Many? The country is broike. Keep watching ball games and supporting the TV networks that support the regime. You have no clue what is going on. The mission? Oh Afghanistan and Iraq? The muslims have their man in the white house. The wars are just a sideshow and are meaningless now.

The Joint Chiefs are spineless. Defense of America is now just a business. The invaders already made it through.

[CodeToad]

If we chose to build another A-10 style aircraft I bet it could be done within 18 months for $10 million a copy and we could make 2,000 of them.

We failed to learn from WWII the battle of the tanks: Germany had few expensive and extremely capable tanks. We had lots of cheap and less capable Shermans. We won.