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Hi Joseph
RE: The War is Boring digital reprint of the RAS blogpost here:http://aerosociety.com/News/Insight-Blog/3272/Does-the-F35-really-suck-in-air-combat#gallery
I think it was a good exercise if only to illustrate that Axe's claims about what the test report and test meant was not only not necessarily true (which it most necessarily IS false and misleading) but that by example described what the real dominant factors in air combat are these days.
Actual results from doing the kind of modeling the RAS guy did on even 'high-power' amateur gaming software can be of varying utility. Sometimes the 'answer' is so obvious that you don't need all the factors of a vetted mil-spec model -- but sometimes you do. No matter what model you use, it still all comes down to whether or not your ground rules and assumptions that shape the inputs and interactions are appropriate to be sure they are 'useful'. To paraphrase mathematician George Box: All models are wrong, some are useful.
Jul 20, 2015, 11:24:09 PM
Posted to David Axe is More Boring Than Ever (Bless His Heart)