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The Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle in a test run off the coast of Oceanside, Calif. The $14.4 billion program has been plagued by delays and cost overruns.
Gregory Bull/Associated Press
The Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle in a test run off the coast of Oceanside, Calif. The $14.4 billion program has been plagued by delays and cost overruns.
These globalists have been using “cost cutting” as an excuse to destroy our military, even though 57% of our tax dollars go to medicare/medicaid/social security.
Our military will be that of a 3rd world country in 10 years. Pathetic.
They can save even more money by cutting perks and allowances for the General Staff and senior officers.
The EFV program is a disaster both in terms of the requirement, and the execution of the program, and should have been canceled LONG ago.
Of course,FR today is going to be filled with clueless knee-jerk comments by people totally unfamiliar with the EFV and its problems, though.
Major military procurement programs were canceled under Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II.
The idea that EVERY military program is good and canceling ANY of them is treason is intellectually unsustainable.
Just sayin.
The reason for launching amphibious ops farther offshore is not because of land based missiles or arty. It is because we need to be over the horizon to avoid most land-based radar detection. That's about 24 miles currently and we would prefer 40 miles.
Here's a look at the SSC:
http://www.ship2shoreconnector.com/
Also, there was no reliable way to predict cross currents and wave height in advance of the 24 mile travel time of the EFV.
Finally, having done a beach assault last year from an LCAC, I cannot imagine the rough ride you would get in a much smaller EFV.
I hope the SSC is faster and better able to handle rough water, the LCAC was a nightmare.
