Not only is the KC-46 on the docket for next week’s military
problem reveal, the F-35 often criticized program will be there too. It’s
perhaps the most important discussion coming from the US Air Force affecting
the US military industrial complex in a long time. The stock market will parse
and analyze words spoken.
Aviation junkies must memorize these Air Force names, Lt.
Gen. Christopher Bogdan for the F-35, and Brig. Gen. Duke Richardson for the
KC-46. They hold sway over the future of these two critical
programs. They have been tasked with oversight and act as the canary in the
mine if something falls short of delivering what was promised.
Many doubts are raised about the F-35 meeting and exceeding fourth
generation fighters such as the F-16 and other foreign adversarial fighter
airframes.
What is purported on the F-35:
General Mark A Welsh III: AFA conference
Chief Of Staff USAF Washington, DC
Chief Of Staff USAF Washington, DC
Counters these arguments listed below and makes the F-35 case during the video.
Check The 36:12 minute mark on video about the F-35 Program Status.
Standard complaints offered on the sideline:
- Its falls short
to the F-16 in air to air close combat.
- It has had
encountered too many program faults
- It will not have
close combat air superiority over the latest generation foreign fighters
- It compromised
its air frame, giving up performance for both STOVL and Carrier based
fighter configuration for the Navy and Marines. One concept does not
always fit all.
- Concurrency is a
Military STD on its building complex.
This
now brings us to the Boeing KC-46 Air Force Report Card. The fixed cost has
been an impediment to Boeing trial and error approach during development, with
a follow-on air tanker from a commercial frame. Its error margin is already gone
when installing critical systems. When delivery time is a key element for the
military, it becomes a key cost to the supplier (Boeing) to make it on time.
- The KC-46 needs
and error free flight test period
- The Air Force
Should Tell Us straight Up Were The KC now stands
- Boeing can
deliver and succeed on this key project but it will take an investor hit
because of it.
The
Air Force Presentation next week will sway the Boeing stock market one way or
another, when it comes to the KC-46 project. Lockheed's F-35 won't have a final
answer until it goes to combat someday. However, early reports indicate the
Marines have a winner. It is not known how well the F-35 super-secret internals
will buy back many advantages in aerial combat, or how it can be used as an interface
within the total combat arena assisting old technology.
Its
multi-systems and pilot helmet controls can help fourth generation fighters
with what they lack in the combat arena. The F-35's stealth gives it a longbow
advantage for incoming fighters 100 miles out. Close combat may not be its
specialty, but its added combat values nullify the need for close combat
encounters. The Air Force must learn how to leverage the F-35 technology into
air superiority, and that may take hands-on and brains-on time in the cockpit.
The military has to catch up to this technology and not look back at the old
paradigm of the F-16 as the role model. This is a different animal.
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