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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (827092)1/1/2015 7:44:57 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1577015
 
And it isn't like this is the first time they tried and failed at this. I understand the pressures, the bean counters want as many common parts as possible to keep costs down. The Air Force loves single place, stealth and supersonic. The Navy wants two place planes because they don't dogfight as much, but need to control the airspace over a battle group. So a weapons officer is needed. That makes it too big and heavy for the Air Force, which is why they passed on the F14, despite it being the choice for the two services. The Army and the Marines have similar needs, but the Army is prohibited from using fixed wing aircraft.

We need to get rid of the restrictions. Single and dual engine multirole fighters. No reason they can't use a common engine and the majority of the avionics. Upgrade the existing B1s to B1-R specs. Make it a fast cruise missile and air to air missile bus. It too could share most of the avionics and probably engines with the fighters. Have an uprated A-10 with VTOL capability. Update the engines for greater fuel efficiency and have the avionics be able to work with the fighters for when GPS guided bombs can be used. Helicopters can fill in the rest of CAS needs.

And that is it. Two different regimes. Supersonic and not. The supersonic regime can likely be serviced with a single engine type. Most of the avionics could be the same also. Being able to share data and targets would be huge. The rest could probably share a common power core, the A-10 follow on with a very high bypass set of discs and the helicopter using the core as a gas turbine. The needs are very similar.
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