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Originally Posted by moobob
This reminds me of what the Air Force did for both light/medium airlift and close air support. The customer is the most important part of this equation. Other services doing their own procurement and research leads me to think that they don't think they can depend on the AF to provide what they need, and that's non an unreasonable belief. The sole benefactor of the AF being the "executive agent" for these UAVs would be the AF and the AF alone.
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Dead on the money.
The AF also has a checkered reputation of meeting customer needs when they are a resource provider, as your airlift and CAS examples clearly demonstrate.
This would be an excellent opportunity for them to take all of the services monies and design a stealth air superiority aircraft that would meet few to none of the other customers' requirements.
IMHO, the absolute last service I would like to see consolidating this would be the AF. The Marines and Navy have a much better rep for delivering what the troops need and for sharing with other services.
Just my .02, FWIW.
TR
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