220 | Robert Farley: Air Wars in Ukraine and Beyond
The Realignment
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Why Is the Amount of Air Frames Countries Put Up?
The cost of a fighter programme went straight through the roof even before we invented stealth. The space between first flight and obsolescence is like two years, so you have to build new stuff quickly. Technologyis changing more slowly, and so trying to get technological advantage costs that much more. And one of the most interesting things to come out of american air power has been something that doctor will roper has termed the next generation air dominants project. It's an attempt to borrow industrial techniques from the automobile industry.
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