{"id":194169,"date":"2008-10-18T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/18\/it-looks-like-the-usaf-and-the-jsf-in-particular-are-in-for-some-heat\/"},"modified":"2008-10-18T08:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T13:19:00","slug":"it-looks-like-the-usaf-and-the-jsf-in-particular-are-in-for-some-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/18\/it-looks-like-the-usaf-and-the-jsf-in-particular-are-in-for-some-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"It Looks Like the USAF and the JSF in Particular, Are In For Some Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rand corporation, which a few weeks ago said that the 4th generation fighters would club the F-35 Lightning II like a baby seal, is now saying that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/10\/15\/317309\/us-defence-policy-and-f-35-under-attack.html\">USAF&#8217;s reliance on extremely high tech cutting edge aircraft is unlikely to work<\/a> in a real war, and are failing now:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Rand and CSIS reports both deliver sharply critical outlooks for the future of US airpower. The first suggests that the superior technology of next-generation US fighters are no match for superior numbers and geographic advantage. The second, entitled America&#8217;s Self-Destroying Airpower, concludes failures of strategy and planning have made the US military-industrial complex its own worst enemy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reports go on to describe, &#8220;widespread breakdowns across the US military&#8217;s acquisition system for developing and fielding modern combat aircraft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking from my personal experience working on the Army&#8217;s Future Combat System, it ain&#8217;t limited to aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>At its core is the problem that systems are too damn expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Neither aircraft offers a meaningful increase in performance in current deployments, just added costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rand corporation, which a few weeks ago said that the 4th generation fighters would club the F-35 Lightning II like a baby seal, is now saying that the USAF&#8217;s reliance on extremely high tech cutting edge aircraft is unlikely to work in a real war, and are failing now: The Rand and CSIS reports &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194169"}],"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=194169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}