Sprey would play a role in formulating the A-X Concept Formulation Package describing the flight characteristics and capabilities of the plane. Sprey claims that: While working as an analyst for the OSD, he was recruited by colonel Avery Kay to help with the concept formulation of the A-X. Claimed role in A-X (YA-9 and A-10 Thunderbolt II) concept design He and Colonel John Boyd worked with others in the Pentagon and Congress toward military reform, helping gain passage of military reform legislation in the early 1980s. Sprey continued to be critical of the F-15 fighter. The Fighter Mafia claims it influenced the design requirements of the highly successful General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, although they were not happy with design changes made to the YF-16 as it became a costlier multi-role fighter rather than the lighter air-to-air specialist they originally envisioned. Their goal, based on energy–maneuverability theory, was a small, low-drag, low-weight, pure fighter with no bomb racks - similar to those found in the early-World War II designs. The Fighter Mafia strongly believed that an ideal fighter should not include any of the sophisticated radar and missile systems or rudimentary ground-attack capability that found their way into the F-15. The 'Fighter Mafia' group of defense analysts worked behind the scenes in the late 1960s to advocate a lightweight fighter as an alternative to the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. He was a weapons system analyst working for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis. Defense analyst, criticism of the F-15 ĭuring the 1960s, Pierre Sprey was associated with a group of defense analysts who called themselves the 'Fighter Mafia'. From 1966 to 1970 he was a special assistant at the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He subsequently worked at Grumman Aircraft as a consulting statistician on space and commercial transportation projects. He later continued his education at Cornell University where he studied mathematical statistics and operations research. Sprey was admitted to Yale University at the age of fifteen and graduated after four year with a double major in French literature and mechanical engineering. Sprey was born in Nice, France in 1937, to Jewish parents and raised in New York, USA. Christie at the Pentagon, he was associated with the self-dubbed ' Fighter Mafia', which advocated the use of energy–maneuverability theory in fighter jet design. Pierre Michel Sprey (Novem– August 5, 2021) was a record producer and defense analyst.
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