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JSF Price Tag Jumps to $135 Million



 
 
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Old March 23rd 10, 10:45 AM posted to rec.aviation.military,rec.aviation.military.naval,sci.military.naval
Andrew Chaplin
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Default JSF Price Tag Jumps to $135 Million

" Sunny" wrote in
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"Ian B MacLure" wrote in message
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" Sunny" wrote in news:xXhpn.14133$pv.11282
@news-server.bigpond.net.au:

[snip]

Here in Australia our stupid Govt. has not yet cancelled orders for
the thing.
As for artillery, you have to get the tubes and ammo close enough
first,
to support the Infantry. (Ex Grunt with 36 years service.)
We should have bought F15s to replace our F111 :-)


As to artillery, things have changed recently. First round hits
from 30+ km for tube artillery and 75km for MLRS are not uncommon.
A single MLRS or truck mounted version thereof can cover an area
150km in diameter.
What JSF does is give you longer range strike capacity and H hour
ability to take out high value targets undetected until things are
supposed to go pear shaped.

IBM


Close Air Support/Close Arty Support?
The old 8 inch were considered to be accurate, but we could never call
the first round closer than 1000 metres, even when we knew our
position down to 25 metres. Shudder to think what the "Close Support"
first round restrictions would be. As a Grunt I hope it would be
within ear shot, for the next correction request.

(Especially with many diverse Infantry Ops within your 150km area)
:-)


It has been a long time since I have done it so I may be missing a
wrinkle, but DANGER CLOSE could be brought in to four probable errors of
friendly positions from 1000 metres for 155 and 620 metres for 105. If
you have at least 0.45 metres overhead cover, you can bring it onto the
positions if need be. Which PE you use depends on the relationship of the
line gun-target to the positions.
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Old March 23rd 10, 12:42 PM posted to rec.aviation.military,rec.aviation.military.naval,sci.military.naval
Jim Wilkins
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Default JSF Price Tag Jumps to $135 Million

On Mar 23, 6:45*am, Andrew Chaplin
wrote:
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It has been a long time since I have done it so I may be missing a
wrinkle,
Andrew Chaplin


The question I poorly stated (purple smoke) was whether standoff PGMs
could completely replace observer-adjusted artillery or more
importantly manned CAS, I think it's possible that an enemy could
create countermeasures against laser designators etc but don't want to
discuss how, lets just assume they can, like assuming that pig the
Natter can fly.

jsw
 




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