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I said 'significant digit less', which turns out to be one less zero; or 700 aircraft, instead of 1,700.As for the production length, I was basing that off the F-22A, which had the last production aircraft ordered in FY10, some 23 years after the first aircraft were ordered in FY87.The first F-35s were ordered in FY07, so 23 years of time brings us up to FY30.USAF once required/desired 650 F-22A, then 381, then....well, we all know how that turned out. We also have the looming fiscal budgetary problems ahead of us for added 'fun'.EDIT: We also have other contigents in the US military industrial complex that are desirious of regeneration of *their* slice of the pie in that forthcoming time period, like the notational new SLBM to go with the SSBN(X) Ohio replacement. Where's the money for that going to come from?
I said 'significant digit less', which turns out to be one less zero; or 700 aircraft, instead of 1,700.
As for the production length, I was basing that off the F-22A, which had the last production aircraft ordered in FY10, some 23 years after the first aircraft were ordered in FY87.
The first F-35s were ordered in FY07, so 23 years of time brings us up to FY30.
USAF once required/desired 650 F-22A, then 381, then....well, we all know how that turned out. We also have the looming fiscal budgetary problems ahead of us for added 'fun'.
EDIT: We also have other contigents in the US military industrial complex that are desirious of regeneration of *their* slice of the pie in that forthcoming time period, like the notational new SLBM to go with the SSBN(X) Ohio replacement. Where's the money for that going to come from?
