Joint Strike Fighter Plan B

[Churchill]

Shouldn't that read:

Just buy mirages, everybody else does

Aha, very witty...

[Churchill]

There was an article recently that said BAE was now the biggest engineering employee in the UK... how times change

employer... shirley?

[Cliphead]

OK, task here for Threaded.

Design a Joint Services aircraft capable of VSTOL.

BTW, I wouldn't want to hover a JSF, they use the 8051 in their sensors...

Resurrect the P1154 project

[Troll]

employer... shirley?

picky

[DanTheMan]

Invest the money in updating the Tornado. Still the best all-rounder jet in the skies. Although we should never have built it in the first place. We were that close to buying F15's for bombing and F16's for fighting before the governement decided it would be better to have a multi-role jet. Better yes, but a lot more expensive.

The mirage is rubbish so that's out. I suppose we could wait for the Yanks to sell off their new F29's. But they cost about $1billion each and so far not for sale outside the US....

[Lucy]

I love it when boys talk about toys

[Gibbon]

Really? Where? We may be able to do jet engines, but where are all aerodynamics/aircraft design/avionics experts? Given that the last indigenous jets were built in the 60s, where would a budding aircraft engineer since then have got the experience?

Tornado, EFA, Nimrod, Hawk all built or partially built and designed here by BAE Systems.

And there is one avionics/software engineer writing this reply.

[sasguru]

Tornado, EFA, Nimrod, Hawk all built or partially built and designed here by BAE Systems.

And there is one avionics/software engineer writing this reply.

Aren't these all dated designs? Where would we find the aircraft designers in the modern generation - they were too busy doing "meejah studies"

[Troll]

I love it when boys talk about toys

Could someone please tell Lucy that she is not allowed to respond to any thread started by me
TIA

[sasguru]

They could tell exactly how to colour coordinate your bombs though.

Yes apparently the latest version of the Tornado is to be called the Metrosexual.