Posted on 12/06/2017 7:30:02 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Cost, Schedule, Performance.
If things don't go well, you need to feel pain in one or more of these areas -- spend more money? Lengthen the schedule? Decrease performance requirements?
Program Managers tend to hold cost and schedule as the most sacred goals. Therefore, fielding navy ships which cannot actually perform a mission is seen as the price you have to pay for achieving the more important goals.
What a awful article, if accurate. These ships sound like future man made reef candidates.
Yeah, yeah.
Zumwalt, Monsoor (MoreMoors ? Monsoon?) and LBJ.
Three really, really inspirational characters.
For three really, really foolish ships.
Epic Fail.
12 billion dollar rat hole, proving once again that a boat is just a hole in the water to throw money into ...
Useless junk like the F-35. Rat holes both. But nice Pentagon naval perfumed price toys ...
junk
The Perfumed Princes strike again. The word “snafu” will never become trite.
My only consolation is the hope that our main competitors are probably just as bureaucratically inefficient and stupidly wasteful as we are, and that their junk is no better than our junk.
The next one built in Maine should have a name of one of the most frightening American men in History. The U.S.S. Stephen King should have some really spooky armament.
At $4bil a copy, you could sail EIGHT advanced Frigates.
Eight.
What a dumb friggin’ idea this was.
We need MORE platforms, not better platforms. We already have the best ships in the world with the most effective combined weapons systems.
We just need more of them. And quick.
“Useless junk like the F-35”
The F-35 is the best attack and interdiction aircraft in the world.
It’s not even close.
Monsoor was a Navy Seal who threw himself upon a grenade to save the lives of his comrades.........Medal of Honor posthumously....................
It already has.
The USS Lyndon Baines Johnson......That’s the scariest name a ship could have............
In keeping with the lib mindset:
There’s nothing wrong with a ammoless gun, it’s the thought that counts. If the whole world had ships that couldn’t shoot, the world would be a peaceful paradise.
“The F-35 is the best attack and interdiction aircraft in the world.”
Unfounded claim.
Right ... the software does not work, the gun does not fire, pilots risk their lives taking off from carriers due to instabilities, and there are no plans nor money to fix the myriad of problems. POS. You are reading too many Pentagon press releases.
Other than that, it flies really well and USAF pilots love it, but there it ends.
“Useless junk like the F-35.”
You’re sadly misinformed regarding the F-35...
Note that President Trump is now a fan.
“Right ... the software does not work, POS.”
Let’s see. The software does work, I guess what you’re referring to is delays in the block upgrade schedule. Gee, I’ve never heard of software taking longer than expected, have you? This is safety critical software so the QA process is extremely stringent. Not a single F-35 has crashed during the entire program, that says something...
“the gun does not fire,”
Two of the variants don’t have a built in gun. The F-35A gun has fired successfully, not sure what you’re talking about.
“pilots risk their lives taking off from carriers due to instabilities,”
This has been addressed, you need current information if you’re going to criticize.
“and there are no plans nor money to fix the myriad of problems.”
Completely off base. Do some actual research.
Here is an article from a year ago, with first-hand accounts from Marine aviators flying the F-35B, the only supersonic STOVL aircraft in history:
The summary: “The voice of the pilots is clear – the platform is working exceptionally. The F-35 is a platform with the ultimate level of sophistication, made simple. And therein lay the beauty of the F-35, and just why it will be so deadly, it’s simple.”
My favorite quote from the pilots:
“I was leading a four ship of F-35s on a strike against 4th Gen adversaries, F-16s and F/A-18s. We fought our way in, we mapped the target, found the target, dropped JDAMs on the target and turned around and fought our way out. All the targets got hit, nobody got detected, and all the adversaries died. I thought, yes, this works, very, very, very well. Never detected, nobody had any idea we were out there.”
Semper Fi!
The Pentagon's official F-35 bug list is terrifying
Pentagon: Here are all the problems with the F-35
Surely swabbie guys will say the same about the waste of money called Littoral Combat Ships.
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