Once the adjustments for inflation and corruption are determined they will have the actual price.
Once the adjustments for inflation and corruption are determined they will have the actual price.
Sure is a nice looking bird...but how long will it be before fighters are replaced by drones? Maybe at that point we can just have machines fight the wars.
Which war is it fighting?
And the Chinese will have the complete design plans within a year
looks an awful lot like the F-23...
Could turn out to be a flying Littoral Combat Ship (LCS).
No “Monica” ?
I was under the impression that the F-35 was supposed to be all that and a bag of chips, now they want another??? Oh, wait, Military Industrial Complex, graft, and so on. Business as usual.
I used to drink with a guy who was deep into the Boeing flight training program related to the F-22. Their program was only simulators.
He was told the F-35 would be the last manned fighter.
Dumb - drones are clearly the technology we need. The AF is run by fighter pilots who can’t get over the fact that their tech is obsolete.
and if lucky, in 15 years or so it will start entering squadron service.
And I forgot to say, it will be flown by the sweetest little people they can find. DIE don’t you know?
They will be $1 trillion each and we will build 2 of them.
Pointless. This is just pork barrel spending at this point. It is good to be a Defense Contractor getting rich off the tax payers.
What can this do that an F22 can’t do. Why not just make the F22 cheaper and quit making the same mistake of massively costly replacements that fail because they cost too much.
It all circles back to pork barrel.
““There were rumors that Boeing was not out of it. And the rebuttal to that rumor is that they can prototype, but can they really build a clean sheet combat aircraft?” he said. “If it’s Boeing, it implies that they’ve achieved a miracle. That’s why I’d probably go with Lockheed Martin.””
Anyone that ignorant of Boeing should not be listened to about this subject. They are absolutely clueless.
Multiple hundreds of millions per plane. Well we just gave Ukraine 40,000 million (40 billion aid package). Makes that cost seem like chump change.
My father was a test pilot in the 50’s. When the military defined their desires for a new plane the manufactures would build a prototype for the fraction of what it cost just to make a proposal today.
Northrop with the F-20 was the last example of this approach with a bid and a prototype. They lost out to the F-16 because the US had already invested too much in the F-16 even though there was still no prototype.