When I had my PMA at NAVAIR for Navy and Marine Corps UAS I made all of my Officers and GS-15 civilians read: "Hornet: The Inside Story of the F/A-18"
by Orr Kelly.
It is really fascinating peek behind the curtain and helped us immensely as we pushed forward with UAS programs against some rather interesting opposition.
I personally think the JUCAS is a tremendous waste...we already have a deep penetrating strike UAS: the Tomahawk. It just doesn't come home.
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Originally Posted by MFAFF
Snipe...
How do you figure a General Dyanmics /McDD aircraft destroyed Grumman?
It did a great job of self destructing in the mid 1970s with the F-14 contract and never recovered....let alone stomach the loss of the A-6F programme and not convincing NavAir that a updated Strike Tomcat was a better bet than the Super Hornet...
Ah politics...
But the X-47B is looking interesting... not as good as a Tomcat tho'....
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