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New Carriers - Old refurbishments - New Navy Fighters that goFAR - FAST - and HIGH
Ski wrote:
You all seemd to me to have hit the main issues with the USN right now - somehow the Navy has thrown away its good sense and started chasing courses of action that will reduce its ability to deal with the world threats in only from a defensive nature. (1) New big carriers go fast, protect themselves better, and sustain more everything but they can't start costing $10 billion plus each (2) The F/A-18E/F/G has re-written the maintainability and sortie generation books but it is no more then a more capable A-7 and not even an A-6 and surely not an F-14 despite the maintenance nightmares. (3) Since there is not a Naval F-22, hardly can't see the Typhoon working sensibly, and we do not want to deal with the French for the Rafale (which is the best Naval fighter around today) - then going back and redesigning a super-Tomcat is not a bad idea and since now with the F-15E and F-14D we have the right engines around - go for the digital improved all - electric Tomcat. (4) If we drop JSF STOVL and force only one configuration CTOL and then slide the whole program to include a decade or so development the JSF could absorb the UCS/UCAV and work to have manned - unmanned variants which makes more sense and helps preserve the stealth if it works to keep the internal weapon design (say maybe include something laser by then) - but this alone could pay for the new Tomcat and a crash program it could be (5) Now like it or not, the move from battle ship to carrier will have another shift down the road and that may be sub-surface so the Navy may really find that under-sea ops will be its big hitters and the whole surface world may have to look again at what it is and should be. But whatever it is - the present Navy is not it Thus Spake: *G* *O* *D* *S* *C* *R* *E* *A* *T* *O* *R* Has any these "Futuristic Flying Machines" ever been "Battle Tested", against OTHER nations futuristic and costly Flying Machines... BS? God's Creator! (I am Life & Death) 8-) -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Todays U.S. Holy Oil Wars News: http://www.antiwar.com http://icasualties.org/oif/ |
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