F-35 : the inside story of the Lightning II joint strike fighter /
Tom Burbage
Bok · Engelsk · 2023
| Omfang | 406 pages : photographs
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| Opplysninger | A dark and stormy night -- History of fighter aircraft -- The tension builds -- A battle in the sky -- The Rubik's Cube of partnering -- Building the Global Security Partnership-European and Pacific alliances -- Building the global industrial ecosystem -- Engineering a new global culture -- Defining a new beast: converting general requirements into a combat machine -- The devil's in the details -- Controlling the beast -- Innovation doesn't just happen -- Testing the beast -- The best seat in the house -- Roles and missions matter -- Remaking Her Majesty's armed forces -- The perfect storm -- Transparency, trust, and realism -- It's only software -- Executing to the new plan -- Building the beast -- Sustaining the beast -- The media war and the sleeping stakeholders -- Spy vs. spy -- The land down under -- G'day USA, G'day world -- The Arctic alliance: The reluctant partner-eh, Canada? -- Final exams -- The tyranny of time.. - The inside story of the most expensive and controversial military program in history, as told by those who lived it. The F-35 has changed allied combat warfare. But by the time it?s completed, it will cost more than the Manhattan Project and the B-2 Stealth Bomber. It has been subject to the most aggressive cyberattacks in history from China, Russia, North Korea, and others. Its stealth technology required nearly 9 million lines of code; NASA?s Curiosity Mars rover required 2.5 million. And it was this close to failure. F-35 is the only inside look at the most advanced aircraft in the world and the historic project that built it, as told by those who were intimately involved in its design, testing, and production. Based on the authors' personal experience and over 100+ interviews, F-35 pulls back the curtain on one of the most heavily criticized government programs in history from start to finish: the dramatic flights that won Lockheed Martin the contract over Boeing; the debates and decisions over capabilities; feats of software, hardware, and aeronautical engineering that made it possible; how the project survived the Nunn-McCurdy breach; the conflicts among all three branches of the U.S. military, between the eight other allied nation partners, and against spy elements from enemies.
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| Emner | |
| ISBN | 1510777571. - 9781510777576
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