Austria Has No Business Flying These High-Performance Fighters

War is Boring ^ | Nov 2, 2014 | David Axe

[teeman8r]

Shall not be infringed. Austrian’s get to decide what they protect themselves with... Not some outsider.

You can have my j15 when you pry it from my cold dead... Nope i kicked your ass with it. Nevermind.

Teeman

[Dilbert56]

The main thrust of the article is government corruption. Bribes paid by the manufacturer to get government officials to buy this particular fighter. The “too much fighter” is the symptom.

[TADSLOS]

True dat.

[jpsb]

"For the second time in a year, the Pentagon has eased the performance requirements of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)."
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"This is not the first time the Pentagon has altered its standards to give the JSF a pass. In early 2012, the military granted the F-35 a longer takeoff run than originally required and tweaked the plane’s standard flight profile in order to claw back some of the flying range lost to increasing weight and drag.

http://www.wired.com/2013/02/pentagon-downgrades-jet-specs/

[GreyFriar]

Perhaps they can get the Spanish to re-open the Buchon production line for a smaller and cheaper fighter for the Austrian Air Force? And I recall that a few years ago the Russians had started making Yak-3s to sell to folks in Europe and North America, who wanted to own and fly a WW2 airplane.