Posted on 07/08/2018 7:07:31 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
Leftist thinking is so pervasive that it often slips into conservative thought without anybody being aware of it. (No? How about capitalism, or HUAC?) One such case involves U.S. defense policy, specifically U.S. vs. Soviet, Russian, or Chinese weapons systems.
Weve already covered the tendency to credit the Russians (and the Chinese, and who knows, the Inuit) with world-beating weapons they couldnt possibly have. Another such axiom exists governing American defense: that all U.S. weapons are junk, wont work, cant compete, are overpriced, will lead to disaster, and must be cancelled immediately. This is a thesis that has achieved the status of a meme: all communist weapons are the technological equivalent of Excalibur or Mjölnir, while all American weapons are Acme fireworks that will inevitably send us over the cliff.
As with most such notions, there exists a grain of truth in this. A small one, and misleading one, in this case going all the way back to the Korean War.
Korea was the first jet war, and the reason for this was an aircraft called the MiG-15. Jets appeared in the last months of WW II, first from Germany, then the UK, and then the U.S. In all cases but two -- the Messerschmidt Me-262 and the Arado-234 too late to go into combat. After VE-Day, research and application into jet-propelled flight went into high gear, much of it occurring in the U.S: the sound barrier shattered by the X-1, the first production second-generation jets, the first jet bombers (the B-45 and B-47), and so on. The British were scarcely a step behind, and the Russians
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I thought this would be about the Iver Johnson Target Sealed 8. A true junk weapon.
At about 1/6 the price of a S&W .22 revolver, they were accurate and reliable.
Sure, they are slower to reload, and did not have the finish of the S&W, put they worked well. A pull pin revolver tends to be very reliable, and much cheaper to produce.
Ideology over economics.
Dad had one. Lead splatter. Was unsafe to stand beside anybody.
Only at a horrendous cost. The political cancellation of that weapon system also included the order to destroy all jigs, molds, and other manufacturing items that were specific to the production of the aircraft.
A lot of people denigrate the B-1B as it does have its own issues, but only 100 were allowed to be built and the first off the line were sort of unique unto themselves. All the tools and items required to make the B-1B were also ordered destroyed and if the Air Force was allowed to make more they would have been standardized and normal life-cycle would have been developed that would have made it a totally fantastic aircraft.
They first came out in 1932.
I was wrong to call it a pull-pin, it is a top break.
Revolvers tend to wear with lots of use, they get out of time.
Any idea how old your father’s Sealed 8 was?
Not a clue but when I shot it was the 60’s and it was worried out then so I’d guess it was an early one.
Wore not worried. Damn autocorrect.
Program cost is too high
Cut production quantity to reduce program cost
Unit cost is too high
Buy more units to reduce unit cost
Program cost is too high
Cancel program
Got ahead of myself!
Iver Johnson made both top-break and pull-pin versions of sealed 8 revolvers.
This one was pull pin.
Willis won the completion, but McNamara ordered acquisition of the Ford entry, which had four-wheel independent suspension which would instantaneously fold under inturns, flipping the vehicle.
Very dangerous and weak vehicle. Like the Bell entry, which was bested by the Hughes scout helicopter (Loach), but had Lady Bird Johnson as a major share owner, got the contract which was the OH-58 piece of shit.
Democrats wrote the book on corruption!
as did the AR-234 against the Ludendorf Bridge at Remagan. in germany in '75 we heard our M60A1s w/105mm were inferior to shorter T-62s w/115mm gun. while true on size and gun we could depress the gun further and thus make better use of terrain for hide positions. we also carried more ammo with a better fire cotrol system.
If the objective is scaring the crap out of a 14 year old deer hunter in the Dead Stream Swamp, Missaukee County, Michigan it worked just fine.
Yes, you are correct...and often, ideology over national security.
I take it you were on the receiving end of one of it’s more infamous attributes.
Ideology trumps all.
I knew what it was, because I was a jet plane geek so recognized the delta shape for the millisecond before my world shook.
Seems to me poor planning to do a simulated run over a National Forest during deer hunting season. I assume mine was from Grissom AFB in Indiana, as they were only a few hundred miles south.
The hustler was not designed for low level ops which is what shortened it's service life. An awesome jet, I think a record or two that it set are still standing.
Trump trumps all ideology...:)
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