Trade Ya My JSFs for 100 LRStrike: RUMOR

Trade Ya My JSFs for 100 LRStrike: RUMOR
By Colin Clark Thursday, October 21st, 2010 6:50 pm
Posted in Air, International, Policy, Rumors

As pressure rises for the US to abandon overseas bases crucial to the U.S. ability to reach deep into China, Russia and other strategic locations, the service is growing increasingly hungry to buy a basket of long range strike capabilities.

Air Force officials say it would probably be a mix of platforms — manned and unmanned — and some of them will almost certainly be stealthy and they will boast a range of at least 1,800 miles. And they will be expensive. Why do the Air Force and so many estimable defense analysts believe the U.S must build a replacement for the B-52s and B-2 bombers?

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The answer to your question was in the next paragraph-

Considering the time that is required to develop and field new weapon systems, if the next defense budget continues to defer needed long-range strike investments, a gap is likely to emerge in which the nation could lose its conventional long-range strike advantage for a decade or more,” Mark Gunzinger wrote last month in a major report by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment.

The A-10 isn’t going anywhere for a long time. It’s projected to serve for another 20yrs.

Doubt it, if that had of happened it would be all over the news.

Not necessarily. There’d be a huge loss of pride, were they to admit that, much like Syria kept pretty quiet when its facility got destroyed.

i want to discuss what capabilities this will bring to the IAF.
can Israel now threaten Tehran?

Yes. Tehran is within range of Israeli missiles. As for what capabilities a stealth strike aircraft will provide- the ability to maintain an element of surprise.

Why instead of posting a counterargument you post this kind of comment?

I will tell you, if the F-35 had come with the automated maneuverer ideas, this board would be full of this, the 35 killer robot, The terminator of the skies, etc..

But the¨PAKFA is truly the first step on this, is the single program addressing it, so is worth the comment, is the truly first step for a fighting UAV

People babble over all this issue, showing automated cruiser missiles as true UAVs, when russians are pretty alone doing the real research

This might hurt your ego, Sens, but is the fact

Once this feature(which we currently know very little about, so everything is speculation) demonstrates its usefulness(or superiority over platforms without it), then we can discuss it. So far, all I’ve read is that some artificial intelligence will be used, to help lower the pilot’s workload. I’ve seen nothing leading me to believe that it will offer any tactical advantage.

“The Russians” have said? In the first paragraph of the blog post you quote, another Russian says the engine will be ready in 5 to 6 years time (which would almost be quick enough to make the highly questionable 2015 ISD schedule). Whether that estimate can be considered any more reliable is unclear, all we do know is that quotes regarding the schedule for the PAK-FA programme are best taken with a large grain of salt, generally.

It’s not at all unreasonable to expect the engine to be ready for a post-2015 service entry.

I agree. The new engines will be available post-2015(just not as of 2015).:cool:

As for claims, I’ll take Pogosyan’s claims over Putin’s, etc….

The Russians still have the potential to develop the best systems in the world in any category of military gear.

That’s a pretty bold statement.