Thursday, March 22, 2012

Airpower Trends Are Changing From 2020 And Beyond



Fighter Trends Change For 2020 And Beyond -- Aviation Week

The past few years have made it abundantly clear that the mid-term future of airpower is not what a lot of people planned. Large-scale procurement of the stealthy F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has slipped into the 2020s. The aircraft types in service today—which made their first flights as much as 40 years ago—will be the world’s frontline fleets through the rest of this decade, and will make up the majority of fighting forces well into the 2020s.

This does not mean that technological and operational progress has stopped. Fighters delivered in the 2010s may not look new from the other end of the flight line, but at closer range, the changes are very important.

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My Comment: Drones will probably exhibit the biggest changes in the next 10 years ... both in functionality and lethality.

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