DesertFox
05-05-2001, 05:46 PM
"Hit fast and hit hard" has become the reigning doctrine of warfare. A weapons platform's effectiveness is measured by how many hours it can be up-and-running during the first 30 days of a conflict. Opposing forces will no longer have weeks or months to position themselves.
Back in the Gulf War of 1991, some types of fighter airplane that are still in service today could not be set up or fly for the war's first month.
By contrast, the Joint Strike Fighter will not need a fleet of logistics ships and an army of ground crew to follow it around. Sophisticated computer modelling and test flights are proving that the JSF can go to work on day one and remain available for 90% of that vital first month.
When the Pentagon picks the winning design for the Joint Strike Fighter later this year, it will be awarding the largest defence contract in history, in the most ambitious fighter program since the 1960s. The JSF is to replace eight different models of aircraft.
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The JSF will be a bargain: at as little as US$28-million each or at most only US$38-million, whereas the F-22 carries a price tag of US$90-million.
Entire article at http://www.nationalpost.com/tech/story.html?f=/stories/20010504/551727.html
Back in the Gulf War of 1991, some types of fighter airplane that are still in service today could not be set up or fly for the war's first month.
By contrast, the Joint Strike Fighter will not need a fleet of logistics ships and an army of ground crew to follow it around. Sophisticated computer modelling and test flights are proving that the JSF can go to work on day one and remain available for 90% of that vital first month.
When the Pentagon picks the winning design for the Joint Strike Fighter later this year, it will be awarding the largest defence contract in history, in the most ambitious fighter program since the 1960s. The JSF is to replace eight different models of aircraft.
. . .
The JSF will be a bargain: at as little as US$28-million each or at most only US$38-million, whereas the F-22 carries a price tag of US$90-million.
Entire article at http://www.nationalpost.com/tech/story.html?f=/stories/20010504/551727.html