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America’s $400 Billion Stealth Jet Fleet Is Grounded
Daily Beast ^
| June 28, 2014
| Dave Majumdar
Posted on 06/27/2014 7:50:33 PM PDT by lbryce
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To: Antihero101607
I never defend the F-35.
I won’t really defend the thinking of the DoD.
But I will explain that part of the purpose of the new designs (some good, some bad) is to keep the defense industry alive. Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop and the rest can’t survive on producing simple upgrades. They need new expensive programs. The government typically wants those companies around in case we need them, so we fund them with fancy new programs just to keep the firms alive. For example: if we lose our ship-building capability (and we have little left for big Navy vessels) then we would have an awful time trying to resurrect it. So we fund ships just to keep the shipyards.
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posted on
06/27/2014 8:27:52 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
To: bigdaddy45
Go back to the post that I replied to ... Obama is definitely connected to this “death spiral” ...
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posted on
06/27/2014 8:36:24 PM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: 353FMG
As a small kid in a concentration camp I looked up and wondered why the two pilots had to sit so far from each other.
The P-38 is next favorite after the P-51 Mustang for me.
Best regards to you.
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posted on
06/27/2014 8:46:21 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
To: Rodamala
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posted on
06/27/2014 9:07:54 PM PDT
by
gura
(If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
To: gura
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posted on
06/27/2014 9:09:20 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Fungi
We seem to be on a death spiral,,,
that about sums it up.
have a nice day!
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posted on
06/27/2014 9:25:28 PM PDT
by
Big Red Badger
( - William Diamonds Drum - can You Hear it G man?)
To: Big Red Badger
How is it possible to “have a nice day” with what is going down?
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posted on
06/27/2014 9:38:33 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: Fungi
The US cannot do anything rightfrom jets, to Iraq, to the southern border, to Obamacare, to lost e-mails, to wind power, to pipelines, to ......... you name it. What is going on? We seem to be on a death spiral. The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. (Psalms 9:17)
REVEALING STATISTICS (or, Present Costs of the War Against God)
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posted on
06/27/2014 9:39:16 PM PDT
by
daniel1212
(Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
To: GeronL
We just need a bunch of those, more block 52 F-16s, and build a new A-10 type CAS plane.
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posted on
06/27/2014 9:44:23 PM PDT
by
gura
(If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
To: lbryce
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posted on
06/27/2014 9:56:21 PM PDT
by
Daaave
("Fiery the angels rose,")
To: lbryce
"The original idea to replace different combat aircraft with a single design has resulted in the most expensive defense program in the history of mankind, with the price tag ballooning from $220 billion to about $400 billion."
I thought the lesson learned from the F-111 program was not to do that.
To: 867V309
Good news! Only one percent of the fleet has been lost without ever engaging the enemy. Yep, our very efficient domestic enemies have succeeded at countering and neutralizing one of our newest and most technologically advanced weapons before it's even been faced in battle.
In the meantime, Putin flexes muscle by firing six new air-launched cruise missiles.
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posted on
06/28/2014 6:28:09 AM PDT
by
GBA
(Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
To: ClearCase_guy
I do know of a project that went into a Critical Design Review (CDR) to finalize and approve the design, and one of the required inputs for the CDR was a set of "As-Built" drawings.Sounds like the National Health Care Plan (or ACA)
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posted on
06/28/2014 8:02:31 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: Citizen Zed
“Are they using that biodiesel fuel?”
Recycled cooking oil. Now we have self-frying aircraft.
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posted on
06/28/2014 8:08:45 AM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
To: lbryce
The grounding is no threat to the national security due to the fact F-35 has still NO initial operation capability (IOC). In other words a test aircraft is grounded.
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posted on
06/29/2014 2:31:39 PM PDT
by
MHalblaub
("Easy my friends, when it comes to the point it is only a drawing made by a non believing Dane...")
To: MHalblaub
Well, that certainly changes the perspective, ramifications of the article. Thanks very much for the enlightenment.
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posted on
06/29/2014 2:46:52 PM PDT
by
lbryce
(Barack Obama:Misbegotten Bastard OffSpring of Satan and Medusa.)
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