Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "VisualPolitik EN"
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@complicatedjason The F-16 did not exist for Vietnam. F-16A/B entered service in 1978. They weren’t ready for mass production because there were multiple critical faults with the design and changes made without authorization during the manufacturing by floor managers.
The engines also had compressor stalls, flame-outs, AB unstarts, and catastrophic failures where blades would fly out of them. APUs failed, control surfaces failed, hydraulic problems, etc.
With JSF, they worked these things out before going into higher production rates. Most of these problems were solved before even making prototypes, especially with engines and flight control systems.
They tested out the new Electrohydrostatic Actuator and DFLCS on AFTI F-16, VAAC Harrier, and HAARV F-18 from NASA before even baselining JSF control system architecture.
JSF has been produced in excess of early F-16 fleet numbers where we suffered the 143 losses and 71 fatalities. Those were from 1978-1988.
762 JSF have been built since 2006, most in the past few years once Lot 14 was started.
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