Reply to post: Re: Air Force vs Navy vs Marines

Pentagon is far too tight with its security bug bounties

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Re: Air Force vs Navy vs Marines

Everything in engineering is a compromise. It's not a bad thing to share some subsystems across military aircraft, but the requirements between a plane that works from an airport and one that works from a carrier are different enough that it's better to design each for those roles. While the newest generation is very cool and exciting with all of the new gadgets they have, I'm a fan of just building a s-ton of something that already works just fine. A wing of F-35's isn't nearly as impressive as 100 A-10's coming over the horizon or wave after wave of F-16's. The psychological aspect can be a much bigger factor than some stealth tricks and being able to put a very limited amount of ordinance precisely on target. Not a bad thing, but "perfection in war is so sapping your enemy's will that they give up without a fight". Sans that, getting them to lie down and cover their heads isn't bad either.

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