AviationBanter - View Single Post - GIVEN CURRENT WARS, F-35s ARE BETTER CHOICE THAN MORE F-22As

**tankfixer**

In article , Zomby-
says...
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:16:45 -0700, tankfixer
wrote:

In article , raymond-
says...

"tankfixer" wrote in message
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In article , raymond-
says...

are they just going to magically appear in 10 years, full blown, armed to
the teeth with ultra-fighters?

Yes.

Example: German 1930 to 1940.

the germans didn't have the best stuff. and there was plenty of warning.
the french built the maginot linebefore the german threat was known.
you want to do the same today.
we started then too.
the u.s. built a tank factory and it was producing tanks in less than a
year.

In 1930 Germany was a semi stable democracy that was no danger to her
neighbors.
No one really believe she would be a danger again.
Over the next ten years she build up her airforce and army to the point
that by 1940 she had taken Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, France,
Belgium and the Netherlands.
Back then a fighter or tank could be designed and produced in under a
year.
To suggest that any country can do that now is absurd.

Did you mean CAN or Can't.

I think its unlikely any country can go from idea to production in a
year like happened in WW2

Given enough resources an awful lot can be accomplished. We take an
awful long time doing things right now over all sorts of debates over
money.

One thing that happens now is the constant tinkering with the design.
Lengthens the design and prototype cycle excessivly.

In another scrape for survival I think the US could do a whole bunch
of things very quickly, although we would have to ramp up a lot of our
manufacturing capability first though, or out-source the actual
building to the Chinese or somebody.

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