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American Gripen: The Solution to the F-35 Nightmare Paperback – 14 December 2016

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In place of the long-delayed, heavy and expensive F-35, the U. S. military has a better alternative, the Saab Gripen multi-role fighter aircraft. The F-35 is the world's largest weapons program, but it has attracted little in-depth analysis to date, apart from the Pentagon Director of Operational Test and Evaluation reports which, year after year, point out the aircraft's show-stopping failings and shortcomings. Becuase we are all paying for it, American Gripen was written to provide the buying public a complete understanding of the F-35's whys and wherefores in the context of military aviation. It is a call to action. We will all be much safer when the F-35 program is dead an buried.

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294 pages
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English
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Stairway Press
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14 December 2016
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14 x 1.68 x 21.6 cm
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1941071538
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978-1941071533
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stairway Press (14 December 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 294 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1941071538
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1941071533
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14 x 1.68 x 21.6 cm

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oldenuf

this is a brilliant, convincing and well written book but I should ...

Reviewed in Canada on 27 July 2017

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In my opinion, this is a brilliant, convincing and well written book but I should add I am neither a fight pilot nor an aerodynamicist. The scope of the book is maybe a bit wide (or you might think David is wandering off topic) but what I think the author is trying to point out is that you can't separate design from mission and objectives. His analysis of the F35 is as clear as it is devastating. An aircraft that attempts to do everything can only be late, mediocre and expensive. The early design choices ( "baked in the cake") as the author calls it, preclude any redemption further down the development path.

alfamas

Información técnica útil

Reviewed in Spain on 4 July 2017

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Aporta mucha información técnica (básica) interesante acerca del estado actual de la aviación militar y lo que le afecta. No se adentra todo lo que desearía en el Gripen, pero está bien. Tiene otras consideraciones poco útiles y en cierta medida equivocadas...pero bueno, se puede leer.

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Shavez

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Reviewed in India on 12 July 2019

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This book is wonderful in terms of technical aspects of modern fights related to the war. Strategy is very important in designing the war equipment but must be in economic form , too much cost injected in F-35 is nothing like bone which has been stuck in US Airforce either they handle the difficulties n overcome with passage of time or just find the replacement . Good book- anyone who is willing to read or know about a fighter aircraft how they fly ,cross section ,what are problems of F-35 which is facing right now, how missiles works many more.....
thanks David -the author.

Matty Mo

This is the guy who believes in Global "cooling". This book is more of the same.................

Reviewed in the United States on 13 May 2018

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This book is about as reductive as it gets. A totally amateurish attempt, that parrots old information and headlines dressed up as new insight. It reads like a temper tantrum. The DOT&E has a job to do. That job is to find deficiencies in the weapon system. If a fighter is one the most lethal aircraft in the world, which the F35 most certainly is. You still will only read about the deficiencies. It is incumbent on the reader to put the annual DOT&E reports and the reported deficiencies in their proper context. Something this author has failed to do. For Example , the F15A/C(Air Superiority Variants) were found to have an alarming number of deficiencies. F15 has a combat record of 107-0 in Air to Air Combat.
There will always be dilettantes like Archibald pontificating about subjects outside their lane. It is part of living in a democracy. We have to suffer the misguided getting a say, but as one former F22/F35 pilot explained "the biggest critics are the farthest away"

F35 massacres 4th generation aircraft like the Gripen at a rate of 24 to 1 at Red Flag.
The pilots who have flown the F35 don't want to go to war in anything else.
Did not see much of the pilot's perspective on the F35. There are hundreds of pilots who have flown both 4th gen and F35. They are after all the ones putting their lives on the line. Do You think they would agree within book?
Clearly the answer is NO. This book is drivel.

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That Guy

This is more about procurement that specific aircraft

Reviewed in the United States on 4 January 2021

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Okay... So, the book clearly isn't a love letter to the F-35. However, I haven't found in my own research that was untruthful about anything. The main objective of the book seems to be to highlight the danger of China and how the f-35 is unsuited to the type of war that would be required against China. Here the book makes good points.
The author clearly isn't drinking the Kool-Aid about american weapons systems being better than anything else, ever, all the time.
The author qoutes actual battlefield results of weapons systems such as air to air missiles. The actual results are not what the public is led to believe. As a combat veteran myself, I can attest to this being true, the actual battlefield is not the clean lab where everything works. Furthermore, war has its own reality and weapons systems are not and cannot always be used as the manufacturer intended. For example, infantry sometimes used smart anti weapons on mud huts and such, unit the U.S. army put a stop to the by issuing Carl Gustav's

This leads me to believe that many of the problems highlighted in this book, will be actual problems in combat situations with opponents who are capable of with more than just small arms.

This book wasn't exactly what I was looking for. However, it was informative, it was interesting, and I'm glad a read it. Could the author have stayed on track better? Yes. There are certainly tangents, and perceived Chinese aggression seems to play a big part in the authors thinking.

Like much of history, a national defense needs to be carefully thought out, with all potential adversary's taken into account. So after reading this am I convinced that U.S. national defense could get a get a jet better suited to addressing future missions, for the same or less money? Yes. Did this author convince me? No. I've read other books on the subject, and I have a military back ground. But the book is worth reading.

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