“It does look like Lockheed Martin has come a long way in the past couple of years in straightening out the F-35’s difficulties. Having said that, it would not be a big surprise if we saw some minor delays further along the line,” said Ray Jaworowski, senior aerospace analyst at Forecast International. “I don’t expect to see a showstopper by any means. The F-35 program right now ... is too big to fail. They’re going to make it work.”
And, the once great Dr. Grant (thank you for The Radar Game) has lost credibility with endless promotion of the Just So Failed:
“I think we all appreciate the ruggedness of the A-10 and its ability to take ground fire,” said Grant. “It is great at what it was built for — to be an airborne canon — but the fighters today and going forward need to have that multi-role ability and all the modern sensors that really can’t be retrofitted onto the A-10,” she said.
Grant said if the F-35 is called to do combat search and rescue, it will do so. And it will have updated sensors such as the 360 degree distributed aperture infrared system to carry out the mission. Most of these new sensors can’t be fitted onto A-10s.
“The sensor and survivability advantages of the F-35 are pretty profound,” she said.
Too bad none of it has any proof of working. You would expect the PhD peer group to be more demanding these days.
Now, she is a bad apple for air power concepts.
And I don't feel good about stating that.
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A-10s save troops
-Time's Battleland - 5 Part series on F-35 procurement - 2013
-Summary of Air Power Australia F-35 points
-Aviation Week (ARES blog) F-35 posts (2007 to present)
-U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) F-35 reports
-F-35 JSF: Cold War Anachronism Without a Mission
-History of F-35 Production Cuts
-Looking at the three Japan contenders (maneuverability)
-How the Canadian DND misleads the public about the F-35
-Value of STOVL F-35B over-hyped
-Cuckoo in the nest--U.S. DOD DOT&E F-35 report is out
-6 Feb 2012 Letter from SASC to DOD boss Panetta questioning the decision to lift probation on the F-35B STOVL.
-USAFs F-35 procurement plan is not believable
-December 2011 Australia/Canada Brief
-F-35 Key Performance Perimeters (KPP) and Feb 2012 CRS report
-F-35 DOD Select Acquisition Report (SAR) FY2012
-Release of F-35 2012 test report card shows continued waste on a dud program
-Australian Defence answers serious F-35 project concerns with "so what?"
-Land of the Lost (production cut history update March 2013)
-Outgoing LM F-35 program boss admits to flawed weight assumptions (March 2013)
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