UID:
almahu_9949576898402882
Format:
1 online resource (159 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8330-3605-X
Content:
Drawing on primary and secondary sources on the aircraft industry, this report provides a brief survey of industry structure, innovation, and competition in the U.S. fixed-wing combat aircraft industry from its earliest days to the present. It supports a much larger research effort examining the future of the structure, innovation, and competition of the U.S. military aircraft industrial base that responds to congressional concerns about that future.
Note:
"MR-1696."
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"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."
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Cover; PREFACE; CONTENTS; FIGURES; TABLES; SUMMARY; ACRONYMS; Chapter One INTRODUCTION; RESEARCH APPROACH AND KEY ISSUES; TECHNOLOGY ERAS IN FIXED-WING COMBAT AIRCRAFT; NUMBERS OF COMPETING PRIME CONTRACTORS; Chapter Two INDUSTRY STRUCTURE AND COMPETITION IN THE BIPLANE ERA; U.S. INDUSTRY FALLS BEHIND IN WORLD WAR I; LOW DEMAND, LACK OF COMPETITION STIFLE INNOVATION; U.S. FIGHTER DEVELOPMENT DURING THE BIPLANE ERA; U.S. BOMBER DEVELOPMENT DURING THE BIPLANE ERA; SUMMARY: AN ERA OF CONSERVATIVE DESIGNS AND LITTLE INNOVATION; Chapter Three THE MONOPLANE REVOLUTION
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NEW MARKETS AND GREATER COMPETITION PAVE THE WAY FOR INNOVATION THE MONOPLANE BOMBER REVOLUTION; THE MONOPLANE FIGHTER REVOLUTION; MARKETS, COMPETITION, AND INNOVATION DURING THE MONOPLANE REVOLUTION; INDUSTRY STRUCTURE DURING THE MONOPLANE REVOLUTION; SUMMARY; Chapter Four THE SUBSONIC- AND EARLY SUPERSONIC-JET REVOLUTIONS; THE SUBSONIC-JET ERA, 1945-1953; THE SUPERSONIC-JET ERA, 1953-1981; INDUSTRY STRUCTURE DURING THE SUBSONIC-JET ERA AND EARLY SUPERSONIC-JET SUB-ERA; SUMMARY; Chapter Five THE AGILE SUPERSONIC TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION; SUPERSONIC TECHNOLOGY REFINEMENT, 1962-1972
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THE AGILE SUPERSONIC-JET REVOLUTION, 1972-1974 AGILE SUPERSONIC FIGHTER TECHNOLOGY REFINEMENT, 1974-1981; INDUSTRY STRUCTURE AND COMPETITION DURING THE 1960's AND 1970's; SUMMARY; Chapter Six THE STEALTH REVOLUTION; INDUSTRY LEADERS IN THE STEALTH REVOLUTION; ORIGINS OF THE STEALTH REVOLUTION; THE F-117 COMPETITION; THE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY BOMBER COMPETITION; THE ADVANCED TACTICAL FIGHTER COMPETITION; INDUSTRY STRUCTURE DURING THE STEALTH REVOLUTION; SUMMARY; Chapter Seven AN END TO COMPETITION AND INNOVATION?; JSF: THE LAST FIGHTER COMPETITION?; CONCLUSIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8330-3366-2
Language:
English
