Saturday, May 30, 2015

IF YOU LIKE AIRCRAFT VIDEOS, you'll love this: F-35 operational test trials.

The comments, maybe not so much. The one that particularly sticks in my craw is the '14-year-long development' comment. The YF-22 (F-22 precursor) rolled out on 27 August 1990 (I was there); the F-22 achieved IOC (initial operational capability) 15 years, 3 months, and 16 days later, on 15 December 2005. Yes, development cycles are excruciatingly long - and getting longer - but that's a result of bureaucracy, not technology.

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