24.09.2005, 09:29
Neuer Artikel wo die Zukunft des JSF wieder einmal in Frage gestellt wird, unter anderem
Zitat:JSF decisions to shape future USAF budgethttp://aimpoints.hq.af.mil/display.cfm?id=6625
BY: Aviation Week & Space Technology, Aviation Week & Space Technology
09/19/2005
The intertwining debates over the upcoming defense budget and the sweeping Quadrennial Defense Review are expected to expose the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter--now four years into development--as the aviation program to undergo the most radical surgery.
In turn, the impacts will ripple through a host of military aviation programs and affect changes in the C-5, C-17, follow-on tanker, F/A-22 and unmanned combat aircraft programs. These issues were hotly debated this week by senior U.S. Air Force and aerospace officials assembled here for the annual Air Force Assn. conference.
"I have virtually no insight into the QDR," admits Rear Adm. Steven Enewold, program executive officer for the JSF program. But he has been asked to project "everything from 'kill the entire program' to 'accelerate the entire program' [including options to] cut one variant, cut two variants."
Nevertheless, he offered a prediction based on comments from military officials about declining force structure and future budget reductions.
"I think the Air Force [numbers] for JSF are going to come down some," Enewold says. One factor will be...