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    A new US fighter?

    https://www.defensenews.com/breaking...e-fighter-jet/

    Anyone have enough knowledge to guess if this will be our air superiority fighter sometime soon?

    ETA: and more Importantly, is this new model of aircraft acquisition likely to supplant the "maximum cost" model we have now?

    It all sounds entirely too rational. 😎
    Last edited by Baldanders; 09-17-2020 at 12:12 PM.
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    Have we already declared the F-22 and the F-35 to be steaming piles?
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    Any bets or if it has a pilot or not?
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    Quote Originally Posted by 5pins View Post
    Any bets or if it has a pilot or not?
    I think it is inevitable that most will be unmanned in the future. Not all but most.

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    When I saw the heads exploding after POTUS said "no problem" to sell F35s to the UAE, my first thought was there's a newer, faster, shinier zoomie on the way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 5pins View Post
    Any bets or if it has a pilot or not?
    Or Is it "optionally crewed" as the article suggests as a possibility?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arbninftry View Post
    I think it is inevitable that most will be unmanned in the future. Not all but most.
    I could easily see a model with humans leading "robotic flocks" sometime this century. On the ground as well. ("Robot brigades"?)

    But I also have read the War Against the Cthorr series too many times. But Gerrold's view of future military operations from the late 80s/early 90s seems prophetic now.
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    The article says that prototypes have been flown. I wonder if that might explain some of the UFO sightings?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Guerrero View Post
    Have we already declared the F-22 and the F-35 to be steaming piles?
    The F22 is amazing, there's just only about 150 of them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baldanders View Post
    https://www.defensenews.com/breaking...e-fighter-jet/

    Anyone have enough knowledge to guess if this will be our air superiority fighter sometime soon?

    ETA: and more Importantly, is this new model of aircraft acquisition likely to supplant the "maximum cost" model we have now?

    It all sounds entirely too rational. 😎
    I'm out of my lane but my understanding is the attempt to apply Agile methodologies, which the article hypes, is a lot of what went wrong with the F-35. It works well with non-critical commercial software but hardware is not the same thing. Also the constant production line fiddling is what led say F-100's, even of the same model and block, to be notoriously non-interchangable in parts creating logistics problems in the 1960's rapid development cycles the article mentions. I could be entirely wrong, again not my lane, but I'm skeptical.

    ETA: comparative sci-fi reference to Gerrold see Superiority by Arthur C. Clarke:

    http://www.mayofamily.com/RLM/txt_Cl...periority.html
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