This report contains the material submitted by the authors in connection with their presentations at the 1986 USAF Structural Integrity Program (ASIP, ENSIP) Conference held at Sacramento, California on 2-4 December 1986. Aircraft and engine Structural integrity are certainly important links in maximizing aircraft availability and flight safety. Despite a significant and sustained build-up over the past six years, our forces still face a potential adversary that has been and continues outproducing us by almost any measure of military capability. For example, over the past twelve-year period, while we were building 3,500 new fighter/interceptor aircraft, the Soviets were building 8,400 outproducing us by 2.4 to 1 ratio. Despite the statistics, there are already signs of erosion in the public support for the continuation of our defense build-up. The state of the economy and the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficient Reduction Law Make defense expenditures and inviting target for those who would ignore the threat. (JES)
Proceedings of USAF Structural Integrity Program (ASIP, ENSIP) Conference Held in Sacramento, California on 2-4 December 1986
1986
612 pages
Report
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Englisch