Norwegian F-35 Sending Sensitive Data Back to Lockheed Martin (2018)

Re:Norwegian F-35 Sending Sensitive Data Back to Lockheed Ma... by ptr on Saturday August 03, 2019 @08:55AM (#20600177)

If Sweden can develop fighter airplanes, why can’t Norway?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Norwegian F-35 Sending Sensitive Data Back to Lockheed Ma... by nradov on Saturday August 03, 2019 @09:38AM (#20600331)

Sweden can't develop a fifth generation fighter airplane. It's just too expensive.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Norwegian F-35 Sending Sensitive Data Back to Lockheed Ma... by secfirstmd on Saturday August 03, 2019 @10:06AM (#20600458)

It will be interesting to see if France tries next time. The UK, Germany and Italy certainly can't.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Norwegian F-35 Sending Sensitive Data Back to Lockheed Ma... by achamayou on Saturday August 03, 2019 @10:26AM (#20600547)

The plan seems to be to do it in common with Germany and Spain: https://www.iiss.org/blogs/military-balance/2019/06/franco-g...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Norwegian F-35 Sending Sensitive Data Back to Lockheed Ma... by noir_lord on Saturday August 03, 2019 @02:46PM (#20601935)

The UK is already in early stages of design for a potential replacement to Eurofighter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems_Tempest

We will be working with Sweden on it as well.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Norwegian F-35 Sending Sensitive Data Back to Lockheed Ma... by ajross on Saturday August 03, 2019 @10:40AM (#20600629)

The Gripen first flew 31 years ago, even at the time was considered an outrageously expensive project given the market size (Wikipedia tells me only 247 were ever built!), and frankly there's significant disagreement as to whether it even represents an improvement over the F-16's everyone else was buying at the time.

It was a stretch, and they made it work. But I don't think you'd call this a success. The Viggen was closer to that, and it was a 1960's design.

[ Parent | on HN ]