Posted on 06/29/2024 11:00:32 AM PDT by hardspunned
All of a sudden, the US Air Force is considering cancelling a multibillion-dollar effort to develop a new stealth fighter. Citing the high cost of the so-called “Next-Generation Air Dominance” programme and the competing demands of other projects, USAF leaders have warned they may have no choice but to cancel NGAD – and find other ways of winning control of the air in future wars.
It’s a startling development for advocates of American air power. For generations, the whole US military – not to mention the militaries of America’s closest allies – have depended on the US Air Force to achieve air superiority against even the most determined and sophisticated foe, affording freedom of action for troops on the ground and ships at sea.
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“USAF leaders have warned they may have no choice but to cancel NGAD”
Kind of hard to develop weapons when half or more of the military budget is spent is foreign entanglements, overseas bases, retrofitting submarines for women and gay bathrooms, trying to find recruits when every white guy is told he’s total shit.
Beyond that, let’s take the fight to RUZZIA!!!!!
Yeah but the Russians suck. All they have is artillery, tanks and infantry. Paper tiger.
Russians have more of a Elon Musk mentality when it comes to producing their technology. “Close enough and we can fix the next batch”
The US military seems to have a perfectionistic mindset about their technology. The first time we know about it, it must be working perfectly from the get-go.
We lay legitimate claim to the most expensive education, military, government and health care in the world but a far cry from legitimate claims it is the best in any area. Not just a shame but a disgrace.
Drones will be the future of air dominance. There is little need to develop any more crewed aircraft.
It was perhaps the Hypersonic Pronoun Assault system that put it over the top?
Perfectionist mind set but failure to produce even that. No, the Russians go for simple, robust, easy to make for the most part.
I know it might irk pilots, but why not do a quick design of a cheap, stealthy or not, robust pilotless plane, surely that would save lots of money, and then pilot them remotely. Bet they could get 100 pilotless planes for each F35. Build up thousands quickly, no risk to the pilots, which protects that investment. Besides, imagine all of the American game players that could then be recruited as pilots.
And over 6,000 Nuke Warheads.
500 dollar drones are wiping out multi million dollar tanks and the idiot brass thinks a billion dollar fighter will be the future.
“A camel is a horse designed by committee.”
Why don’t they just upgrade the electronics and engines of the F-22?
We are getting clear evidence in Ukraine that our 1970s era fighters would be perfectly capable in a war against Russia. We have two more fighter platforms past the F-15/16/18 era fighters, and the F22 produxtion was cancelled early because it wasn’t capable of dispensing bribes as fast as the F35. We don’t need another fighter aircraft in the first place, and certainly not one with a pilot’s seat inside the plane.
I hang with some fighter jocks, most recently at the “William Tell” air combat superiority games in Savannah, GA. The word on the F-35 is that it is glitchy, but there is no question that it is vastly superior to any other aircraft.
Most of these pilots say the same thing: “It’s like this with any system-—the F-22, the Osprey. The training manual for a new fighter is written in blood.” I heard that a dozen times from test pilots and fighter pilots.
Oh well. The military has other priorities.
LugButQueueTransPlus
Drones baby, build them drones
Poor DOJ planning and maybe trying to do more “advanced” stuff than needed - making the plane more than necessary complicated.
They are canceling this because the future is drones and they realize it is cheaper to build stealth drones that are modular enough to adapt to changes in processing power and advanced behavior software than to continue pushing a manned concept when most of its projected life cycle is predicted to be dominated by autonomous unmanned platforms.
I assume the Russians don’t have nearly the number of MIC debacles that we have.
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One of the most corrupt states in the world has few “MIC debacles”?
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No, they will have a crew of a man and a dog.
The man is there to feed the dog. The dog is there to bite the man if he touches anything.
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