Like other posters, you did not understand what I was saying. Seemingly because you don’t understand software, or how it’s used in relation to combat aircraft. That’s okay. You’ll find clarification in my response to other posters.

WHICH secondary duty? Aside from the Perry class (which was exceptionally large for a frigate in its day) no single hull could even do AAW/ASW/ASuW other than full fledged escorts. Even then, it wasn’t equipped for several other roles, such as MCM.

Because, unlike the Russian corvettes, these are emphatically *not* meant to attack a carrier battle group. LCS exists so that all the billion dollar warships can be tasks solely to missions that need their abilities. You don’t need an AEGIS system to hunt pirates, perform humanitarian support or let a coastal nation…

In that neither are replacements for ships of the line? Yep, but that’s the whole idea. LCS isn’t meant to face down the PLAN. It’s meant to free up CGs/DDGs that *are* built for that purpose.

Nope. Not even then. And don’t be pedantic, a promo shot is a promo shot, not an operational flight.

Yes, never, as in “sure, Boeing slapped some on there for some promo pics, but the US Navy does not and will not ever send a real CAP up with that many missiles. Missile trucks are not happening even with networked warfare. ESPECIALLY because of networked warfare.”

Ada, though similar grammaticality to Pascal, is very different from it. And it’s not about the salaries and direct training costs, but the ongoing costs. It’s extremely wasteful to build up a huge dev team to rebuild the F-22 and then lay them off or keep them around just in case the USAF wants a V3.0.

F-18s never carry more than 6 AIM-120 in service. There is a long answer why, but it boils down to A) weight/drag and B) all those missiles change pilot psychology and tend to get them killed by sticking around too long. The name of the game is shoot and scoot.

Another unreported fact about the F-16-F-35 “dogfight” is that the specific F-35A used in that test was limited to 7G via software. Full 9G capability didn’t come until later software builds that hadn’t been installed on that jet.

It was different, but not for the reasons you state. Everyone knows the F-35 will be a great tactical bomber, and we’ll use that capability repeatedly.

You need to stop taking everything Rogoway says as literal facts. Because he doesn’t always know what he’s talking about.

I see you read my post in the other thread, and didn’t quite understand what I was talking about.

Yep. Language is not architecture. Language *does* require you to hire people fluent (or at least conversational) in it. Even if you write the fixes in C (F-35 uses some C version) you still need to be able to read the Ada so you know what the program is doing.

Did you even read your own article?:

FYI, the main reason why the F-22 is banned from export is the software. Put simply, it has zero security. You can dump the whole system simply by walking up and plugging a laptop into it (it uses FireWire, so cables are cheap and plentiful) and running the right commands. It’s inherently permissive, because it was…

The main reason they’re going to replace the radar: it and the ECM suite interfere with each other. That’s right, when the B-1 turns on the jammer, it jams itself. It’s been a known issue since the type entered service.

And you can still get 2 stealthy F-16s for the price of 1 F-22.

The reason why we don’t have more F-22s is because (in 2016 dollars) they still cost over $200 million fucking dollars a pop AFTER all economies of scale were realized and R&D costs were paid off. And that’s also without all of the mods we added after production shut down.

“But it’s also useful to remember Rubio’s stances on things like abortion, given that he has a very, very real chance of becoming the nomine”

There could be as many as 5 designs. They’re aiming for some commonality in engines and systems, but that’s about it.