Posted on 12/22/2016 4:07:34 PM PST by libstripper
President-elect Donald Trump took his air war with defense contractor Lockheed Martin to another level Thursday with a tweet threatening the future of the costly F-35 aircraft.
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Bookmark .. looking forward to our resident flyboys’ input on this . . .
I hear he’s looking at buying super hornets instead. With the saved money, they should look at restarting the F22 program. The stealth capabilities seem like they would be useful for gaining control of the skies.
Agree....those are the voices we need to hear...
The bigger the corporation the bigger the corruption.
Or is it?
The bigger the corruption the bigger the corporation.
There needs to be an outside, independent audit of the entire F-35 Program. Operations, also.
I don’t trust anything from the F-35 Program Office, nor Lockheed..
Lawyers know how to argue in court.
Obama is most comfortable when he’s arguing some trivial point.
Business people know how to conduct business.
Trump knows business.
I think all this is not only anti Trump but wrong
I saw at least five three and four star air forve officers and perhaps ten other officers leaving the venu while Trump was standing right by the door. nary a word nor a nod.
What happened was Trump had a sit down between Boing and the generals and Lockheed martin and the generals.
The plane manufacturers were told we need to review the costs. The generals were told in the presence of the manufacturers, we don’t want gold plated marginally required widgets. The purchasing process is going to be worked over from top to bottom
The Air force got ripped a NewOne
F35 is Lindsey Graham’s and John McCain’s BABY.
We have billions of other dollars to go after and the first thing on the plate is negotiate our offensive and defensive costs with an American corporation? Que?
This is the absolute lowest priority on the hit list.
Hardly.
That explains a lot!
No wonder it sounds like it’s a piece of crap in the real world
Maybe we need to scrap the F-35 but replace it with what? The F-20? The F-22? Maybe buy some Mig -35s from Russia? Maybe we are buying the modern version of the P-40 Tomahawk? Make it work with cheaper parts?
????? F-22 is stealthy, no? Sounds like the F-35 was just a play thing for bilking the gov't of money.
The F 22 is waiting in the wings and ready to go, cheaper and just as efficient.
Want to bring in military weapon systems at low cost? Here’s how. Write one mission statement that you want the weapon to accomplish. Don’t change it until the weapon is delivered.
Don’t try to make a single weapon all things to all branches of the service.
Contractor derives requirements based on mission statement. No requirement creep, no cost overruns.
Senator Orrin Hatch R-Utah is all 100% for the F-35...this is going to be a good match, President Trump and if Hatch decides to stay in...I’ll put my money on President Trump!!!
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