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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:38 am Post subject: Aero-News: Quote of the Day (09.21.08) |
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"The critics seem to get credibility, but the program doesn't." Source: Tom Burbage, Lockheed Martin executive vice president of F-35 program integration, refuting claims made last week by industry watcher Winston Wheeler and Pierre Sprey, an aide to then-Defense Secretary James Schlesinger in the early 1970s. Sprey was a member of the team that produced such accomplished fighters as the F-16, and A-10 Warthog... and he says recent combat simulations against a variety of current aircraft show "the F-35 is a dog," when compared against Saab's Gripen, the Dassault Rafale, MiG-35 and Sukhoi Su-35, and the Eurofighter Typhoon.
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