I joust found two interesting articles (in french) about those topics. As they are online, they should be easy to translate, so i post them here.
It would be interesting to compare and discuss metrics used.
http://www.european-military-aircrafts.net/a-propos-de-la-disponibilite-de-flottes/
http://www.european-military-aircrafts.net/calculer-la-capabilite-dune-flotte/
By: halloweene - 20th September 2018 at 09:59
[USER=”1724″]djcross[/USER] these papers are PDFS so easy to translate. I did not use auto translator, due copyright and technical lavel of the papers (need to read them completely), but imho they are utterly interesting to be read before starting a discussion about them. Did you try?
By: djcross - 18th September 2018 at 13:16
Hardware is a recurring cost which becomes increasingly burdensome as the number of aircraft manufactured increases. Capability means many types of sensors and complex redundant systems. But software is a non-recurring cost developed once and reused thousands of times.
The key to a capable system which has high availability yet low unit cost is very simple yet robust vehicle systems and mission systems with complex software which can provide high-level capabilities despite simple mission systems hardware. Such an airplane would likely have a single sensor and operate in a swarm with airplanes which have other types of sensors and/or weapons. All together the swarm has a complete set of mission systems and weapons.
An issue to operating swarms is the support burden of servicing, re-arming and repairing where the ratio of “attritable/disposable” swarm aircraft to a single highly complex Gen 5 is probably 4 or 5 to 1.
ETA: WOW! it only took 10 seconds for the reply to post. Yesterday, it took 5 minutes to post. Maybe the bugs to the forum software are being fixed.
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September 18, 2018 at 11:36 am