The USAF started producing F-22s (and eventually F-35s) even while a lot of the technology was still undergoing development and still had to be tested and the bugs worked out. This seems a financially and technologically risky approach compared to the traditional way of prototyping and extensively testing before committing to production. Is the new way of doing things the right way to go in building ever more complex platforms or should they go back to the old way of working out the bugs before manufacturing?
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December 20, 2006 at 1:59 am