How a WWII Jet Fighter Was Designed in 150 days & shipped in six months

Re:How a WWII Jet Fighter Was Designed in 150 days & shipped... by gaius on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @11:47AM (#1713017)

Check out the Eurofighter Typhoon. By most accounts, while it's no F22, it's not a bad plane (if you need air superiority over central Europe against a numerically superior enemy... Not much use as a bomber).

But the goal of the project was propping up the European aerospace industry...

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Re:How a WWII Jet Fighter Was Designed in 150 days & shipped... by arethuza on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @11:59AM (#1713062)

As far as I can see the goals of most large military procurement projects, at least in the UK, are primarily political and then as status symbols for the relevant branch of the military.

What the people we put in harms way actually need to get their jobs done seems to be of relatively little importance.

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Re:How a WWII Jet Fighter Was Designed in 150 days & shipped... by gaius on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @12:24PM (#1713157)

The RAF has always been very clear about who its real enemies are... The Army and the Navy. I think this is true in most countries...

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