Posted on 08/18/2016 11:38:00 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Great news..!
Nothing wrong in retrofitting older, proven planes with new tech...
Definitely saves a lot of money in the long run...
and I love the the F-15...
It was one of the first model kits I pieced together as a kid...
that and a Colonial Viper from BSG...
Of course, the AF generals want a new zoomie, damn the cost or superiority. Not a thing wrong with the F-15 airframe design or engines, it was ahead of it's time back when, just needs a bit of updating.
We could save even more money by retro-fitting some Sopwith Camels.
In any case, they wouldn’t be any worse than the F-35.
We’d have to get Snoopy’s permission first...
How about the P-51 Mustang..?
The F-15 is still a very good aircraft.
In some ways it’s better than the hyped joint strike fighter. Such as dog fighting.
Still think the best overall fighter we have is the F-22.
Still one of the most beautiful fighters ever made. Love those lines.
Years of cutbacks, on top of sequestration which cut the budget even further to the bone, is going to hunt this nation should we go to war. Wars are, “come as you are.” It takes years, even decades to field weapons systems. We won’t be able to catch up as quickly as we did during WW2 or other wars. And while Obama and our wonderful Republican Congress have been cutting our military to the bone these past few years, the Chinese and Russians have increased their war mobilization exponentially. God help us all.
Air Force Begins Massive High-Tech F-15 Upgrade to Stay in Front of Chinese J-10 of which the first stage will be completed in 5 years (2021, while the second will complete in 16 years (2032) ... Meanwhile, China’s J-10 maintains air superiority while they await the deployment of their next generation fighter long before 2032.
Retitled: USAF wastes money in a futile attempt to appear as if it is doing something to maintain air superiority.
Retro-fitting some Sopwith Camels would really fake out those pesky island building Chinese, throw in a Spad or two and they’d be on the run
Is that a Curtis design? It looks like a pre-war racing prototype for what would become the Corsair.
Since we’ve outsourced most of our electronic manufacturing to China guess who’s going to get it first. Plus we’ll get tainted goods on delivery.
Outsourcing our manufacturing was such an enriching idea for our upper management and bootlicking politicians.
That’s the Hughes H-1.
I think we can be secure in the fact some contractors, manufacturers took a shortcut, used inferior materials in building the Chinese planes.
Isn’t it great that we have to spend hundreds of billions arming ourselves against our single largest trade partner?
Gosh, just think: without all that cash they’d be just another third rate paper tiger.
But we helped them climb into the drivers seat!
And now we gotta live in fear of them.
The Joy of Globalism.
I believe you are correct, a placebo. It is still an ancient airplane. Most of these airplanes are bent and probably not capable of flying the performance envelope. They say you can’t equate to a vehicle this old because they are “maintained” differently. Maybe not but the airframes are OLD. We need new airplanes not a remodel of the old one. More like ancient one.
Not much more than window dressing. Have you climbed in an F-15 anytime in the last few years or walked under one? They are beat to hell. The 15E models leak hydraulic fluid like a sieve. They are worn out. You can only replace seals for so long before the cylinder bores become worn. There is enough of the equivalent of bondo on the airframes to patch up a rust bucket. The skins look like an ocean on a windy day.
Our pilots deserve better but they also deserve better than what is supposed to pass for leadership.
The two most important upgrades that need to be done to the F-15C is to install an AESA radar and the Talon HATE IRST and F-22 data link pod.
This would allow the F-22 to share targeting information with F-15Cs and multiply the F-22’s effectiveness.
...super-fast high-speed computers...
Oh, good, 'cause the merely lightning-fast ones are so yesterday... Really, "super-fast" ??? How about an comparison to the computing power of the existing systems? Or any specs they could dredge up? "super-fast" is meaningless.
...infrared search and track enemy targeting systems...
Wait, who? Is it "track enemy" or the "enemy targeting system" 'cause I really don't want to upgrade the enemy's targeting system.
...margin of superiority has massively decreased...
Ah, the old massive decrease. Kind of a contradiction there...
Sounds like this was written by a HS kid with access to Google and Wikipedia with a minimum word-count on the essay.
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