Fighter Mafia

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title: Fighter Mafia
text: The Fighter Mafia was a controversial group of United States Air Force officers and civilian defense analysts who, in the 1960s and 1970s, advocated for fighter design criteria in opposition to those of the design boards of the time, and the use of John Boyd and Thomas P. Christie's energy-maneuverability (E-M) theory in designing fighter aircraft. The Mafia influenced the specifications for the F-X Program and went on to independently develop specifications for the Light Weight Fighter (LWF). M
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description: American military advocacy group
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighter_Mafia
date created: 2006-07-11T18:23:52Z
date modified: 2024-09-10T00:25:47Z
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