How is this affected by the new pact between US, UK, and Australia? The news here made it appears as that caused some bad blood between EU and the US/UK.
6th Generation Stealth Fighter: Joint Effort by UK, Japan, Italy and Sweden?
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#12If you are going to create an expensive, outdated when first created machine in an effort to create jobs... why not create jobs and solve an actual need / problem at the same time.
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#13The least relevant defense margin for the aforementioned states.
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#14i don't know the future of air fighter but this news remind me of Elon Musk saying the fighter jet era is gone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKJ-uS55mhM
You have to wonder why these military muppets feel the need to turn up to an interview in full camouflage.
What happened to 'step-outs' ?
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#15At what point does the ideal approach just become building a LOT of cheap drones that carry minimal ordnance?
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#16Yep, it's not gonna go over budget or fail to be produced! /sarcasm
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#17How is this affected by the new pact between US, UK, and Australia? The news here made it appears as that caused some bad blood between EU and the US/UK.
It’s mostly France with the bad blood, as they lost a lucrative submarine deal.
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#18So they don't actually know what direction to take aircraft in and decided on stealth. Seems reasonable, all else being equal, the party that is detected last has a higher chance of winning. What happens when a new detection method is developed that makes these planes not stealthy? Don't you then just have 4-5th gen craft that cost 2-10x as much? Guess it takes a real war to discover the actual winner of modern warfa…
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The navy was in a conflict with illiterate goat herders?
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#19At what point does the ideal approach just become building a LOT of cheap drones that carry minimal ordnance?
Based on the cost of drones vs the cost of an F-35 we hit that point several years ago.
In fact I remember watching a military channel doc in 2010 where it pointed out that was the ideal strategy at that point anyway.
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#20How is this affected by the new pact between US, UK, and Australia? The news here made it appears as that caused some bad blood between EU and the US/UK.
Might be overshadowed in the news by France recalling ambassadors over the nuclear submarine plans for Australia.