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GIVEN CURRENT WARS, F-35s ARE BETTER CHOICE THAN MORE F-22As
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:56:13 -0700, William Black
wrote: "Michael Shirley" wrote in message newsp.uctgnu05ra3qj7@schooner-blue... On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:59:33 -0700, Zombywoof wrote: I saw some footage of one of GM's plants in China a few weeks back and when I saw the level of automation and the high throughput, my stomach went into a knot. It won't take much to retool for military production. But it'll probably take a level of project management and technical sophistication that isn't available in great quantities in China. Today, no, but that state of affairs won't last for long. The factories may be in China but they're designed in the West, and the skills for designing such a factory, and the management of the processes used, aren't available to the Chinese in any great quantity. That's why they're making Blu Ray players and not top of the range avionics for export. The technologies aren't that different. That'll change. As it is, when Rockwell-Garmin sold em modern GPS technology back during the Clinton Administration and Boeing did the same with the ring laser gyro autopilot during the same time frame, that made me sick too. It buys the Chinese time to get good at things, while extending the usefulness of weapons that might not otherwise be up to scratch. Both of those avionics systems went into the Qing-5, a 1958 design for a tactical nuclear strike fighter that was supposed to be able to do what the early model F-105s could. That plane was utterly obsolete until we upgraded their NAV/ATTACK systems for them. I can just imagine what Obama's mob will do when they're elected. -- "Implications leading to ramifications leading to shenanigans"-- Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, USN. |
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