#40, RE: BPGD: CSF-105
Posted by Offsides on Sep-12-12 at 10:38 AM
In response to message #37
>>>To be fair, anything that pisses in the JSF's coffee is >>>gonna get a hell yeah from me >> >>Errr... Just out of curiosity, why the hate on the JSF? > >Well, it's kind of a long and involved story that's been developing >for a number of years, but basically it has to do with how they've >piled mismatching requirements onto the spec until, if and when it >actually works at all, it will be no things to all people. Billions >of dollars and jillions* of man-hours expended, and other platforms >rushed to end-of-life prematurely, to support an all-out effort at >producing one airplane that's so incredibly versatile... it can do a >kinda disappointing job at just about anything. > You would have thought that they learned their lesson with the F-111, but noooo...Offsides The F-111 - nine of all trades, master of none (it doesn't rank high enough to be a jack of all trades, or a ten for that matter...) [...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. -- David Ben Gurion EPU RCW #π #include <stdsig.h>
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