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Practically Useless Practically Useless
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Incoming Threats Incoming Threats
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Air-to-Air? Air-to-Air?
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Bearing Little Resemblance to Fighters Bearing Little Resemblance to Fighters
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A Real Mess on Our Hands A Real Mess on Our Hands
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Abstract
This chapter looks at the many visions involved in the F-X program. The Aeronautical Systems Division, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and some members of Tactical Air Command and the Air Staff wanted the F-X to be a multi-role fighter emphasizing ground attack, while fighter advocates coming from the knights of the air tradition fought to make it a lightweight, agile air-to-air machine. The program became a battleground for competing interests. The chapter tackles the contributions of John Boyd, Pierre Sprey, and Robert Titus, among others, in defining the F-X in a way that satisfied their desire for a true fighter. The chapter also discusses how General Felix Michael Rogers and General Glenn Kent contributed to the elimination of many of the more extreme requirements for the F-X. By the spring of 1967, the Air Force had worked up a design of a lighter aircraft to weigh forty thousand pounds. Furthermore, the chapter explores how the Navy's designs for a new fighter, code-named the VFAX, pressured the Air Force and continued to influence the design of the F-X throughout its development. Another external source of pressure that shaped the F-X toward an air-to-air focus was the Domodedovo air show in Moscow in July 1967, an event that revealed a new arsenal of Soviet fighter aircraft for the first time. In February 1968, Chuck Myers drafted a review of the F-X program and pushed to move away from “the multi-purpose monster” toward what he called “the right fighter.”
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