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Zitat:Aviation Week & Space TechnologyAlso der einfachste Plan: Generelle JSF-Zahlen gehen runter. Mal sehen, ob das Programm das Schicksal der F/A-22 ereilt und die Zahlen unter jegliches Verhältnis gekürzt werden...
Competing Demands on Defense Budget Produce "Desperate Crisis"
By David A. Fulghum
11/27/2005 03:21:02 PM
GATHERING STORMS
The Pentagon is primed for the perfect storm as operational, budgetary, manpower and transformation crises converge.One of the early indicators of this pending collision is the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), which critics say has shifted from a blueprint for military transition to management of minor changes to future programs.
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Some of the most important battles are being fought outside the QDR arena. A new initiative to cut back or kill a version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter--in the latest version, it was the Air Force conventional takeoff-and-landing (CTOL) variant that was targeted--appears to have been beaten back by a coalition of Air Force, Joint Program Office, Lockheed Martin and senior Pentagon civilians, says an aerospace industry official.
"Over this last weekend, they convinced England that [the cut] is a very bad idea, and that has taken the CTOL-killing fervor out of him," he says. England has proposed killing one or more versions of the JSF several times over recent months. The latest version of the plan was to replace CTOL with a "CV-lite" version of the Navy's aircraft built for large aircraft carrier catapult-and-trap operations. ...