Cancel this dog and open up the bids!
Meanwhile, our fleet of aging F-15 and F-16’s just keep getting older and the Raptor program has been canceled for being “too expensive.”
Swell. Just swell.
The table below [1], points to some of the early weight history of the F-35 program.
F-35 Target Weight
*240-1 CY2002 (lbs)*240-2 CY2003(lbs)*240-4 CY2006(lbs)
F-35C___ 30,049________ 30,700________ 32,072 +6.7%
F-35B___ 29,735________ 30,500________ 32,161 +8.2%
F-35A___ 26,500________ 27,100________ 29,036 +9.6%
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Here’s a thought.
Repeal Obamacare. Period-dot.
Delete the Department of Education. All of it. Give’em 2 weeks to clear out their desks, and let them discover the joys of high unemployment, like the rest of us. Sell off all the furnishings and physical plant.
Cut every other Department in the Executive Branch by a minimum of 50%, with favorites like the Dept. of Energy, and the Environmental Protection Agency by 75%, budget and staff.
When these non-constitutional goodies are seriously downsized, we can use the savings to spend on one of the only CONSTITUTIONALLY legitimate Federal programs. You know, Defense.
Then crank up the F22 and F35 lines till they match original targets. (On the F35 A-B-C, stop the mission creep and let LockMart start turnin’ them out)
Get General Dynamics and Ingalls off their dead asses with the LCS’s, and start tuning up the DDG-1000s. Lay down enough Sea Wolves so every carrier group has at least ONE of their very own. A few more Virginia’s would be nice, too. The point here is the enemy of the good is the perfect.
Oh, yeah. Maybe do some fine-tuning to Defense Dept. Procurement, too. Like; Go back to X-Projects, and old-school competetive bidding contracts.
Lord, wouldn’t that put a bug up the @$$es of the ‘Perfumed Princes’ of the Pentagon...
Just gives me the warm fuzzies thinkin’ about it.
—ExIntrepid
When we get our ass kicked by China or some other Third World tyranny, we sill see a rising-up by Americans not seen in 100 years.