{"id":191765,"date":"2009-06-27T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/27\/f-15-silent-eagle-updates\/"},"modified":"2009-06-27T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T10:01:00","slug":"f-15-silent-eagle-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/27\/f-15-silent-eagle-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"F-15 Silent Eagle Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img146.imageshack.us\/img146\/2829\/getasset.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/>It appears that the program executive officer for the JSF, General David Heinz,  of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodbuzz.com\/2009\/06\/17\/jsf-chief-slams-boeing-on-f-15\/\">is unamused by Boeing&#8217;s marketing of the upgraded aircraft<\/a>, which notes that it, &#8220;as all the stealth that has been approved for export by the U.S. government,&#8221; which implies that the export variants of the JSF will be less stealthy than than the version fielded by US forces.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the general misses the point, it was not a shot at the JSF, but rather a shot at elements in the Pentagon who might want to restrict its export in order to further boost the F-35.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, it does appear that Boeing is looking to minimize its exposure in the development process, as it&#8217;s  <a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=4122001&amp;c=AME&amp;s=AIR\">aggressively looking for development partners<\/a>, while it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/06\/19\/328459\/boeing-holds-f-15-silent-eagle-go-ahead-pending-business-case.html\">leaves the start of aircraft development on pause<\/a>, pending a review of the &#8220;business case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t want to invest in a product that no one will buy, and so they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/generic\/story_generic.jsp?channel=defense&amp;id=news\/F15SE-062409.xml&amp;headline=F-15%20Silent%20Eagle%20Flight-test%20Dates%20Slip\">slipping the flight test dates by 6 months<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the program executive officer for the JSF, General David Heinz, of the is unamused by Boeing&#8217;s marketing of the upgraded aircraft, which notes that it, &#8220;as all the stealth that has been approved for export by the U.S. government,&#8221; which implies that the export variants of the JSF will be less stealthy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1211,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}