Daniel Goure attempted to refute an article by Robert Farley (read Farley's article here) and while doing so stumbled onto the solution to the terribly overpriced, under-performing F-35. Read the article here, but this is the answer....
The line is gone, the tooling is gone and the workforce is gone. In the current environment, the first new F-22 couldn’t come off the line for at least ten years, if ever. Might as well wait for a sixth-generation fighter to emerge.We have the time to start the 6th gen fighter now.
We can accelerate its development, but this time do it right. No joint program trying to take one air frame and do everything but simply share avionics...you know the Sweetman idea.
Like Farley said. We have alternatives. They won't be perfect solutions but it can be done. The first thing that has to happen is that some brave soul has to have the courage to say enough is enough, and that its time to take our medicine.
