High court wary of legal fight over Navy plane

ap ^ | Jan. 18, 2011 | MARK SHERMAN

[george76]

Supreme Court justices seemed in general agreement Tuesday that the best way to resolve a long-running, billion-dollar dispute between the government and two big defense contractors is to say, in Justice Antonin Scalia's words, "Go away."...

That was the apparent sentiment of the court toward a contract dispute over the A-12 Avenger attack plane, canceled by the Pentagon in 1991 when Richard Cheney was defense secretary...

[Frantzie]

No standing like the American people.

[frogjerk]

when Richard Cheney was defense secretary...

Gotta get that name in there somehow!

[Secret Agent Man]

Surprised they didn’t include “Hailburton” and “several years before he would shoot an acquaintance during a hunting trip”.

[pabianice]

AVENGER 2.0

[tgusa]

The A-12 was always a lose/lose proposition. Naval aviation bet the farm on it, and they lost.

[Red Badger]

They will spend 5 billion to collect 3 billion...............

[Fred Hayek]

The A-12 was also bogged down with performance problems. Would have been better to develop an A-6F. Although I am still partial to its contemporary, the Buccaneer.

[tgusa]

Having been a Requirements Officer on OPNAV staff at the time I’m well familiar. Agreed, the A-6F was the better choice. So what do we wind up with? The Super Hornet, which IS better than nothing.

[A.A. Cunningham]

The A-12 was also bogged down with performance problems.

On paper since the project never progressed past the mockup stage.