Shooting down the taxpayer funded ASPI

Taxpayer funded research is good work if you can get it. And this leads to a bunch of wrong assumptions by the ASPI from yesterday and even today.

Here is a read (PDF)(Kopp C and Goon P.A., HeadsUp Newsletter - Issue 318 - HEADSUP SPECIAL - Is the JSF really good enough? analysing the ASPI paper) from years ago that shoots down the ASPI's weak air power assumptions about the F-35 done in 2004.

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Key points from the paper include:

"Australia's air combat capability is on the threshold of a new era as the F-111 and F/A-18 approach the end of their service lives."

"The strength of our future air combat capability-and our largest defence project ever-is a matter of strategic importance."

"We will maintain our capability edge by developing a network-centric air combat system."

"The JSF will be a true fifth generation, stealthy, multi-role, single-seat, single-engine, fighter aircraft."

"The JSF is intended to set new benchmarks in affordability, availability and supportability for a high-performance stealth aircraft."

Air Marshal Houston concludes by saying; "The JSF is the more cost effective option for us."

The paper reflects the views of Air Marshal Houston and does not necessarily represent the position of ASPI on any particular issue.

Yet, ASPI published it and tacitly supports it. ASPI from just a few days ago: "On balance, that looks like a reasonable decision for Australia."



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-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)
-A look at the F-35 program's astro-turfing
-F-35 and F-16 cost per flying hour
-Is this aircraft worth over $51B of USMC tac-air funding?
-Combat radius and altitude, A model
-F-35A, noise abatement and airfields and the USAF
-Deceptive marketing practice: F-35 blocks
-The concurrency fraud
-The dung beetle's "it's known" lie
-F-35's air-to-air ability limited


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