Trump says because of high cost of F-35 has asked Boeing to price out 'comparable F-18'

Reuters ^ | December 22, 2016

[2ndDivisionVet]

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday that because of the high cost of Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 fighter, he had asked Boeing Co to offer a price for a "comparable F-18 Super Hornet."

"Based on the tremendous cost and cost overruns of the Lockheed Martin F-35, I have asked Boeing to price-out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet!," Trump wrote on Twitter....

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Yes. He has said many times that he had a pen and a phone and has no need to mess around with Congress or bureaucratic red tape.

No! Wait! He never said that! You just pretended he said that!

[stylin19a]

is this Trump ?
or is he being advised about this ? if so, he brought in some hellacious advisers. Regardless, he knows way more than people think....

[Seaplaner]

There is actually better idea.

Much MUCH better, in fact...

Restart the F22 program!

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[Incorrigible]

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[smokingfrog]

Nothing is comparable to the F-35.

[Chode]

somewhere, PukinDog is laughing his azz off...

[BigEdLB]

Penultimate busissman president. Dontchha love it. Now he has to send the creep that harassed Ivanka and her family on Elon Musk’s one way trip to Mars.

[Psalm 73]

He just met with CEO of Lockheeed-Martin - I take it that didn’t go so well for her.

[taterjay]

We may never have another politician in the White House if Trump the businessman makes all this work.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The F-35 is hundreds of billions in overruns and needs to be reigned in.

[smokingfrog]

They already had a competition. This is Boeings 5th generation fighter.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Which couldn’t win a dogfight against an earlier generation fighter. $100 million per copy.

[Ben Mugged]

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.

[Ace's Dad]

Haven’t seen brains in D.C. since Reagan in the 80’s.

Hey, watch that! We're called contractors and we do all the thinking in the NCR! (That's D.C. in "fly-over" country).

[logi_cal869]

Hmmm...

Picturing exploding liberal heads.

(smiling)

[Squantos]

Well stating facts is just not fair ......:o)

Merry Christmas my friend.

[freedumb2003]

It doesn’t actually change the fact the F-35 is a POS flying anvil that is weighed down by so much mission creep and politics that it is amazing it gets into the air.

If the F-15, 16 or 18s had the history of the F-35 we would still be flying F-104s (not that would be a terrible thing).

GET THE F-35 BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL MISSION AS AN MRF!!!

GET THE F-22 FLYING AGAIN AS THE AIR SUPERIORITY FRAME!!!

So simple, only Trump could do it!!

[\/\/ayne]

Please - the F35 isn’t going to cut it.

[CodeToad]

“Merry Christmas my friend.”

Merry Christmas Squantos!

Trump said he was increasing the nuke inventory. Might be good work.

[SauronOfMordor]

The F-35 may be a much better plane, but we currently look like we have missions which do not NEED the F-35’s capabilities.

For such missions, it makes more sense to use cheaper aircraft, rather than putting wear on expensive F-35 airframes.