Discuss - RAAF "capability"

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The F-35A has a longer range than the Super Hornet, but the fact is that Australia was spoiled by the long range of the F-111 and there’s no aircraft in that class available on the market today.

How about using existing Australian airfields with no modification?





Just think. You pay for ASPI's lackluster 'research'.

The F-35 will be a quantum leap due to the information it will collect and generate from its sensors and data fusion capabilities—to the point where managing the volume of available data will be a challenge.

Definition: quantum leap.

---"Any sudden and significant change, advance, or increase."

Debunked:

Let us look at that F-35 information sharing status. It isn't a "challenge". It will be well beyond that.

Wow. A Lockheed Martin talking point packaged as 'research'.

The F-35 will result in a further capability boost from 2021 onwards. The development program seems to have turned the corner, with cost growth and schedule slippage problems mostly behind it.

How so?

'Capability boost'? Not when you consider all the threats that can kill it.

That is, for those F-35s healthy enough to leave the ground.

This is just whistling past the graveyard.

None of the recent reviews of the program has identified any shortcomings in the warfighting capabilities to be delivered, despite a lot of poorly informed public criticism of the F-35s ‘dogfighting’ capability. Previous ASPI capability reviews observed that the F-35 performance metrics were largely based on modelled performance and were yet to be demonstrated in hardware. Today, the first mission-capable aircraft is flying—although it’s still well short of the full capability that will arrive only in later software loads.

'Poorly informed'. Really? Those without all the special access have been a better indicator than those in the fan club. And I don't even live off of the government tit.

Conclusion:

ASPI has failed to make a convincing case for having RAAF F-35s when the job  can be done better-cheaper by the Super Hornet.

The Super slow Hornet.

I would rate  ASPI efforts--for some time now--as insufficient.

Worse, they are not warning the taxpayer who has been very generous with this fraud.

We need new, independent researchers. APSI, like the RAAF air power plan, is low performance. For little return on our money.

Our elected officials need a better quality of defence research. A very small, non-defence, government fund could do this.

I know the people for the job.


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