Posted on 08/23/2017 5:06:13 PM PDT by EveningStar
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If it has a pilot, it’s already obsolete. But defense contractors should be able to coax a couple hundred billion out of DoD for the early development, anyway. :)
Sounds like another plane designed to make cronies rich while being way behind schedule and way over budget.
Why?
The last generation of manned combat aircraft is already here.
The USAF currently plans to buy 1,500. After cost overruns and explosion of maintenance hours per flight hour, they will take final delivery of five, each costing $5 billion.
Who’ll have it in service first the US or China ,LOL
A human pilot can see more, and process more data than a drone. The notion of pilot-less fighters is still a fantasy. It is the dream of drone manufacturers. They are the cronies who work with Congress to force drones down the USAF throat.
Do drones have a purpose? Yes. However, they still can’t do all of things a human pilot can do.
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The truest words ever posted on FR.
The Mk1 human brain is the most powerful and versatile computer in the world. Computers are as good as their programmers and that's what got you the F-35.
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We have a bunch of them. Not the amount the AF asked for. But, we have them and they are the most capable fighter airframe in the world.
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So, a realistic delivery date some time in the 2070s, then.
I know nothing about military matters, but for some reason I think the thousands of unmanned drone aircraft of the future that could be developed and purchased for the cost of one of these might be more effective.
Russia came out with a new one that looks just like the F-22...It probably is the F-22...With a Russian name...
The US has not designed or completed a clean sheet of paper fighter in 20 years.
If this goes as well as the F-35 they should have started 10 or more years ago to have it by 2030.
If procurement had been as good in WWII as it is now we’d be goose stepping and eating lots of rice.
Good luck with that.
They might have gotten away with out of control budgets and price tags with past military equipment programs but in the future they won’t be able to justify a program with each copy of a fighter $ 200,000 +
It just ain’t going to happen.
The future is not only having dazzling technology but to find ways to produce it at reasonable costs with integrating each plane/fighter with a drone or a part of the plane as a drone sort of like the movie transformers.
The techknowlogies that they are talking about for these future fighters is already here, already mature.
I meant 200 million plus $ 200,000,000
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