Trump je pre neki dan srezao LM za 600 milki $ u programu F-35. Možda nije LM baš toliki favorit? Mada LM ima gotov avion i može da ugradi MFD i ostale dugmiće baš kakvi su u F-35 a i deo softvera sa F-35. To mu je najveća prednost da mogu novi piloti već rano dobiti osećaj kao što je u F-35.
A sad evo ovih sa Javelin
Stavatti Aerospace unveils new Javelin military jet trainer for USAF T-X Competition Citat:Stavatti Aerospace is entering the Javelin into the USAF Advanced Pilot Training Program (T-X) competition.
The Stavatti Javelin is a new twin-engine, two-seat, high performance military jet trainer and Very Light Fighter (VLF) aircraft. Derived from the ATG Javelin Mk-30, the Javelin will be a candidate for the USAF T-X trainer requirement, as well as a trainer and VLF that can be sold to allied air forces worldwide.
The Javelin project began in 1998 with the formation of Aviation Technology Group (ATG) in Englewood, Colorado. Intended as a two-seat civil jet sportplane, the original ATG-1 Javelin mockup was unveiled and displayed at the NBAA convention in 2002. With orders for 151 aircraft by 2003, in 2004 ATG announced a partnership with Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) to develop and produce a family of two seat military jet trainers designated the Javelin Mk-20 and Mk-30. The prototype Javelin had its maiden flight on 30 September 2005. In December 2007 ATG ceased business operations after failing to raise additional development capital, ultimately declaring bankruptcy in 2008.
On 14 November 2016 Stavatti Aerospace Ltd was granted an Exclusive License to re-imagine, develop, prototype, certify, manufacture, sell, and support the Javelin as an Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT) and VLF from the present owner of the Javelin project’s intellectual property and physical assets.
Upon execution of the licensing agreement, Stavatti immediately began redesigning the Mk-30 Javelin configuration to directly address the current USAF T-X RFP requirements as issued on 31 December 2016. The Stavatti Javelin maintains many exterior characteristics of the original Javelin design but benefits from structural improvements to increase maximum load factor to 9-Gs, more powerful engines, greater internal fuel capacity, increased maximum external warload, higher maximum takeoff weight, a cockpit designed for the T-X mission that satisfies JPATs flight crew accommodation cases 1-8, and a maximum level speed of Mach 1.36. The result is a very affordable, next generation supersonic trainer.
Opinion: T-X Is Lockheed’s To Lose, And Boeing’s To Win
Citat:For the Lockheed/KAI team, the advantage is in not having to bury any serious development costs in the bid price. As an off-the-shelf aircraft, the T-50 also will not suffer any risk-related upward price adjustment, another feature of the RFP with which Boeing will need to deal.
For Boeing, much depends on how it amortizes the cost of developing its clean-sheet design, a question that is related to its expectation for total market size. Much of this nonrecurring expense is shared with Saab, but the Swedish company will want some degree of amortization, too.
If the development bill is $1.5 billion, and this is amortized solely by the 350 aircraft in the T-X program, this represents a $4.3 million additional cost for each aircraft. Since T-X unit costs will likely be lower than $20 million, this added cost would be disastrous, particularly due to the RFP’s risk cost-adjustment. But if Boeing believes the total market is 1,000 aircraft, the unit cost increase would be in the $1.5 million range, a far more manageable increment.
The problem is that the 1,000-unit market is speculative, at best. Boeing has designed an aircraft optimized for the T-X competition, and the world market for supersonic high-end trainers is relatively small. There is also the light fighter market, but with its stadium seating and other trainer features, it is far from clear that Boeing’s T-X can play a significant role as a light fighter. Even the T-50, sold as the FA-50 for light fighter missions, has only found a small export market niche. Selling 650 Boeing T-Xs for these missions in the world market would be a very difficult task.
Therefore, the big question is with Boeing. If it is sufficiently eager to win a new military airframe contract, it will make the aggressive decision to spread costs over a large and perhaps unrealistic number of aircraft, probably resulting in future losses. If it does not do this, then Lockheed/KAI will win, assuming the team puts in a sufficiently aggressive bid. It is Lockheed’s to lose and Boeing’s to win.
Poleteo jos jedan T-50A
Lockheed Flies Second T-50A Jet Trainer Citat: Two Lockheed Martin T-50A aircraft are now soaring together in the skies over Greenville, South Carolina. The inaugural Feb. 20 flight of the second production-ready T-50A from Lockheed Martin's Advanced Pilot Training (APT) operations center in Greenville further demonstrates the company's established, lowest-risk offering in the U.S. Air Force's T-X competition.
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