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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.

Aircraft industry--United States--History. --- Aircraft industry--United States--Military aspects--History. --- Fighter planes--United States--History. --- Aircraft industry --- Fighter planes --- Industries --- Business & Economics --- History --- Military aspects --- History. --- Fighter-bombers --- Fighters (Airplanes) --- Pursuit planes --- Airplane industry --- Aviation industry --- Airplanes, Military --- Aerospace industries --- Airplanes

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Cooperative industrial research --- FSX (Jet fighter plane) --- Technology transfer --- History --- Government policy

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Since the mid-1970s the United States has advocated U.S.-European weapons procurement cooperation to promote increased NATO equipment rationalization, standardization, and interoperability (RSI). A comprehensive strategy including the collaborative development or codevelopment of weapon systems has been devised to facilitate transatlantic weapons procurement cooperation. This report examines three major European large aircraft codevelopment programs conducted between 1958 and 1974 to determine whether these programs achieved the benefits within Europe that U.S. advocates had hoped for. It also explores the European motivations and objectives for codevelopment; the effects of codevelopment on the rational management of transnational R&D funds and resources; the codevelopment program schedule, cost, and performance outcomes; and the prospects and desirability of U.S. participation in a future European large aircraft codevelopment program. Conclusions suggest that the transatlantic collaborative development of large aircraft would not be an effective strategy for augmenting NATO military capabilities and reducing overall NATO defense costs through increased equipment RSI

Aircraft industry --- Airplanes, Military. --- Weapons systems. --- North Atlantic Treaty Organization --- Armed Forces.

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This report reviews French Air Force (FAF) involvement in military operations outside of Europe since the early 1960s and then more closely examines FAF operations in Chad from 1978 through mid 1987. Part of a larger RAND research effort aimed at enhancing the future effectiveness of U.S. Air Force air power in peripheral conflicts, this study assesses (1) the relative effectiveness of air power in French overseas operations; (2) the constraints placed on the use of air power and how they influenced its effectiveness; and (3) the unique aspects of FAF force structure, equipment, organization, doctrine employment concepts, and training designed specifically for peripheral operations. The author concludes that, in response to growing military capabilities of Third World opponents, air power has become an increasingly critical component of French overseas projection forces. However, French experience confirms that air power can make a decisive contribution in peripheral conflicts only when it is combined with aggressive joint land operations. Keywords: Joint military operation; Air land battles. (KT).

Aeronautics, Military --- Unified operations (Military science) --- History --- France. --- History. --- Chad --- France --- History --- Aerial operations, French. --- History, Military

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"This appendix discusses how historical multiyear procurement (MYP) and block buy (BB) contracts have been implemented and how they compare with each other. As context for an analysis of potential savings in an F-35 BB contract, researchers examined 28 historical multiyear contracts, spanning 17 different weapon systems (15 aircraft and two naval vessels). This appendix outlines the methodology and data sources for analyzing historical MYP and BB contracts, provides a high-level overview of trends observed across the case studies, and provides in-depth discussion of the more-recent historical multiyear program case studies."--Publisher's description.

F-35 (Military aircraft) --- Economies of scale --- Purchasing --- United States. --- Procurement --- Cost control.