F-35's to go into full production next year.

[Swampy]

The Pentagon's top weapons buyer said Thursday that the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Joint Strike Fighter should finally go into full production by next March following a series of delays -- the latest for COVID-19 workplace restrictions.

I'm not a fan of the F-35, and I still prefer the F-14 to F-16's.

[dry]

Aug 24, 2020 2:47:03 GMT -5 Swampy said:

The Pentagon's top weapons buyer said Thursday that the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Joint Strike Fighter should finally go into full production by next March following a series of delays -- the latest for COVID-19 workplace restrictions.

I'm not a fan of the F-35, and I still prefer the F-14 to F-16's.

Plenty of high tech, and, even a working STOL/VTOL.   This one was constructed to be invincible.

I have written that, if a technology system has N parts, then those parts have (O N^2) interactions, side effects, and, more.

"The most efficient, the fastest, the most economical, the most elegant, the most cost effective parts of a computer system are those which are not there."

Id est, it is not good to build systems with a great number of parts.   (I recall, Tracy Kidder: The Soul of a New Machine, about the Data General 16-bit minicomputers.)