Originally Posted by
jagbn
I just wonder what John Boyd would say about the F-22 and F-35 programs if he were still around.
Sprey, who was part of the Boyd 'fighter mafia' has been quite vocal on the F-35 and he has little good to say about it.
The Fort Worth paper had a few paragraphs
The latest dogfights took place in the past week. A former Pentagon official involved in the development of the F-16, F-18 and A-10 aircraft in the 1970s said in an influential defense publication that "the F-35 is a dog."
Newspapers in Australia, where the government's plans to eventually buy F-35s are a subject of intense political debate, reported that the planes were "clubbed like baby seals" in a computer-simulated war game conducted by the U.S. Air Force.
In all fairness, Sprey had little good to say about the Raptor including being VERY critical of not flying before buying.