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Poncho (Admin) a écrit:Pourquoi est ce que ça ne conterait pas pour le F-22 ?

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Poncho (Admin) a écrit:Pourquoi est ce que ça ne conterait pas pour le F-22 ?

Le problème central est la concurrence budgétaire. La vraie limite étant le budget de l'USAF, le nombre de F35 sera tôt ou tard revu à la baisse, quels que soient les plans des militaires. Lockheed et P&W se battent donc quotidiennement pour maintenir le volume du programme, contre tous ceux qui veulent le réduire pour éviter que le F35 ne phagocyte tout le budget.

Dans ce contexte, tenter de relancer le F22 a comme principal effet de mettre en doute le F35. Si ce projet réussissait, la relance du F22 entrainerait des coupes sombres dans le nombre de F35, un hausse de son coût unitaire et la fuite des clients étrangers. 

Très accessoirement, le F22 n'est pas exportable.

Au total, Lockheed doit agir avec doigté mais tout le monde est certainement sur le pont pour lutter contre la menace.

Beochien a écrit:- Lookheed (LM) pilotant les 2 programmes, et le F22 se vendant plus cher que le F-35, ou est le PB  

Pentagon directs start of potential new major weapon system program to replace F-22A

March 28, 2017 | Jason Sherman

The Obama administration's Pentagon -- in one of its last official acts -- directed the Air Force in January to begin work on a new Penetrating Counterair capability, kicking off an analysis of alternatives for its Next-Generation Air Dominance program that aims to develop a follow-on to the F-22A Raptor, the U.S. military's marquee twin-engine, stealth fighter.

On Jan. 17, then-Pentagon acquisition executive Frank Kendall approved an Air Force request to transition the Next-Generation Air Dominance program into the acquisition pipeline, setting in place plans to consider launching a Penetrating Counterair (PCA) technology maturation and risk reduction program as soon as next summer, according to a Defense Department official.

The Penetrating Counterair capability is deemed critical -- not only to ensuring air dominance by the 2030s -- but also for the United States to maintain technical competitive superiority.

Kendall signed an acquisition decision memorandum, marking the PCA materiel development decision, according to the DOD official.

The then-Pentagon acquisition executive approved the project, informally referred to as a sixth-generation fighter, to enter the materiel solution analysis phase of the defense acquisition system and “initiating an analysis of alternatives to recapitalize the air superiority mission set created by the forecast retirement of the F-22A,” according to the official.

Kendall designated PCA a pre-major defense acquisition program and the office of the Pentagon's acquisition executive remains the milestone decision authority for the project, according to the official.

Significantly, Kendall did not direct the Air Force to consider restarting the F-22A production line as one possible way to deliver a new PCA capability, the official said.

The service -- at the direction of Congress last year -- is studying what it would cost to get the twin-engine, fifth-generation fighter aircraft production line up and running to buy an additional 194 aircraft. That study is not yet complete, according to the official.

During this early phase of defining a potential new major weapon system, the service sponsor typically conducts analysis and other activities that translates validated capability gaps into system-specific requirements -- which includes identifying characteristics deemed critical or essential to an effective military capability. The program is also to execute planning to support a proposed PCA acquisition strategy.

The Air Force has not yet made any decision on whether to entrust the fledgling PCA program to the traditional acquisition track or hand it to its Rapid Capabilities Office, formed in 2003 to bypass the traditional acquisition system, according to the source.

Air Combat Command -- which spearheaded work beginning in 2009 on a requirement for an F-22A replacement, blessed in 2013 by Pentagon top brass on the Joint Requirements Oversight Council -- is leading the analysis of alternatives.

“The NGAD AOA began in January of 2017 and will conclude in the summer of 2018,” a spokesman for ACC's plans and programs office (A5/8/9) conducting the AOA told Inside Defense. “The AOA will evaluate various alternatives for a Penetrating Counterair capability. Capability development efforts for PCA will focus on maximizing tradeoffs between range, payload, survivability, lethality, affordability, and supportability.”

The PCA capability was a central outcome of the service's “Air Superiority 2030” Enterprise Capability Collaboration Team initiative completed last spring, and effectively rebranded what the service had previously called Next-Generation Air Dominance 2030. That study was completed in April 2016.

Last summer, Congress approved an Air Force request to shift $24 million between accounts to boost spending on NGAD in order to keep the project on track for the January milestone review, a move that raised total available FY-17 funds to $32.5 million.

Then, as part of a Trump administration gambit to increase military spending in FY-17 above amounts set in law, the Air Force on March 16 requested an additional $147 million for the NGAD -- an increase that would lift spending to $167.5 million -- a hike of more than 1,800 percent compared to the service's Feb. 2016 FY-17 budget request.

Beochien a écrit:Ils feraient mieux d'en relancer une centaine, l'USAF, avec l'électronique de bord du F-35 ... Juste mon idée ,...