Miksi pienhävittäjät eivät onnistu USA:lta ?

Tässä amerikkalainen seuraava kevythävittäjä, voisi hyvinkin olla F-5:n perillinen - aivan kuin F-5 oli T-38:n jälkeläinen. Löytyypä yhteys Gripeniinkin SAAB:n osan kautta.


“You could imagine a version of the airframe that could be equipped as a light fighter. You can imagine a version that is equipped as an adversary air-training platform,” he told reporters during a roundtable.
"At the informal level, I have some guys that work for me that are thinking through what the requirement might be for those different versions. When or if that transitions and becomes something more formal will depend on a lot of things,” he said, adding that one of those variables is the budget.
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Still, an upgunned T-X may be more expensive from a cost standpoint, and it will have to be something that international militaries are interested in buying — and can afford.
“We don't have any conclusion about whether that would fit for what we're looking for at a cost point,” Holmes acknowledged. “And as [Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein] talks about, the primary or at least one of the primary components of anything we're going to look at with light attack is going to be how our partners feel about it.”



A new study for the US Air Force says the key to expanding its fleet of fighter aircraft could lay in developing the new Boeing/Saab T-X trainer as a low-cost, lightweight, fighter.

The study is one of two reports by the MITRE Corporation in answer to a Congress directive for an independent analysis of the USAF’s aim to increase in size in order to meet the demands of the National Defense Strategy.

The corporation’s senior principal systems engineer David Gerber says that less-demanding missions such as homeland defense should not soak up precious hours for advanced fourth- and fifth-generation fighters, saying that this kind of role could easily be assumed by a developed variant of the T-X.
 
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