RAAF's new fighters 'already obsolete'

Source URL: http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/RAAFs-new-fighters-already-obsolete/2006/06/16/1149964730807.html
Posted at: http://www.air-attack/com/news/news_article/1725

The RAAF's next generation of air fighters could be as outclassed as propeller-driven aircraft in the days of jets, the Parliamentary Library has found.

In a recent report into the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the library said it was likely the project would become more expensive and that other aircraft would do the same job more cheaply.

And it warned that developments in unmanned aircraft could make the JSF effectively obsolete.

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