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Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer
It was however "comforting" to know that the vaunted IRST system wasn't really worth a damn.
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Yeah, they've been playing that thing up for years. The last instance I saw was in an article earlier this year.
I wish the subject of the interview had first-hand experience in the SU-27 as that's our current rivals' premiere platform (until the Su-50 hits production lines).
With regards to the F-35, I recently read it referred to as "too big to fail". The various government partners have poured so much money into the project so far, that continuing to authorize spiraling cost-overrides
seems less wasteful than cancelling the program entirely. I believe such action is called "reinforcing failure". The interviewee's advice to cancel it and put the money into buying more F-22s (and upgrading existing examples with workable tech from the F-35 program) seems wiser to me.