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We paid for more of an actual working Boeing JSF than we have for any other (known) extant tactical combat aircraft design excepting the one in production. It's closer to cutting metal/laying composites than anything else public. They just need something quick and dirty to recap, imo. They need something more survivable than the legacy fleet, and cheap enough to be bought in numbers to drive it even lower and be attritable (both in terms of near-peer combat losses and burning hours off the airframe in low-intensity conflict). They'll be flying rehabbed Eagles into the year 2222 if they try to develop and field another 20 year JSF acquisition program for tac air.

[QUOTE="_Del_, post: 445465, member: 8513"] We paid for more of an actual working Boeing JSF than we have for any other (known) extant tactical combat aircraft design excepting the one in production. It's closer to cutting metal/laying composites than anything else public. They just need something quick and dirty to recap, imo. They need something more survivable than the legacy fleet, and cheap enough to be bought in numbers to drive it even lower and be attritable (both in terms of near-peer combat losses and burning hours off the airframe in low-intensity conflict). They'll be flying rehabbed Eagles into the year 2222 if they try to develop and field another 20 year JSF acquisition program for tac air. [/QUOTE]

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