Post by Admin on Nov 8, 2019 7:55:12 GMT -5
This actually makes sense.
The airframe has supersonic capability and would be ideal.
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A new study for the US Air Force says the key to expanding its fleet of fighter aircraft could lay in developing the new Boeing/Saab T-X trainer as a low-cost, lightweight, fighter.
The study is one of two reports by the MITRE Corporation in answer to a Congress directive for an independent analysis of the USAF’s aim to increase in size in order to meet the demands of the National Defense Strategy.
The corporation’s senior principal systems engineer David Gerber says that less-demanding missions such as homeland defense should not soak up precious hours for advanced fourth- and fifth-generation fighters, saying that this kind of role could easily be assumed by a developed variant of the T-X.
The ‘Air Force We Need’ initiative suggests increasing USAF fighter squadrons from 55 today to 62 by the mid-2020s. In budget-constrained times, the T-X could offer dramatically lower up-front acquisition and through life support costs.
The airframe has supersonic capability and would be ideal.
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A new study for the US Air Force says the key to expanding its fleet of fighter aircraft could lay in developing the new Boeing/Saab T-X trainer as a low-cost, lightweight, fighter.
The study is one of two reports by the MITRE Corporation in answer to a Congress directive for an independent analysis of the USAF’s aim to increase in size in order to meet the demands of the National Defense Strategy.
The corporation’s senior principal systems engineer David Gerber says that less-demanding missions such as homeland defense should not soak up precious hours for advanced fourth- and fifth-generation fighters, saying that this kind of role could easily be assumed by a developed variant of the T-X.
The ‘Air Force We Need’ initiative suggests increasing USAF fighter squadrons from 55 today to 62 by the mid-2020s. In budget-constrained times, the T-X could offer dramatically lower up-front acquisition and through life support costs.
