1 posted on
10/07/2013 12:18:03 PM PDT by
ColdOne
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To: ColdOne
Cute looking little things!
2 posted on
10/07/2013 12:20:34 PM PDT by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi)
To: ColdOne
...looks a lot like the old C-123
3 posted on
10/07/2013 12:20:56 PM PDT by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: ColdOne
From the article:
"They are too near completion for a termination to be cost effective and other government agencies have requested the aircraft," Mayer told the paper.(emphasis mine)
I wonder if the boneyard is just a refueling stop on the way to Duh-1's private army somewhere?
5 posted on
10/07/2013 12:22:45 PM PDT by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: ColdOne; Travis McGee; Jeff Head; sukhoi-30mki; U-238
The Pentagon is sending $50 million cargo planes straight from the assembly line to mothballs because it has no use for them, yet it still hasnt stopped ordering the aircraft, according to a report. and they say government is not efficient and cost effective. //sarc
6 posted on
10/07/2013 12:26:28 PM PDT by
GeronL
To: ColdOne
To: ColdOne
Let me guess...production hasn't stopped so as to prevent major donors to the Rat Party becoming upset?
8 posted on
10/07/2013 12:27:44 PM PDT by
Gay State Conservative
(Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
To: ColdOne
And how’s their stockpile of toilet seats coming along?
9 posted on
10/07/2013 12:29:47 PM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: ColdOne
Under Osama Obama Care tens of millions of trusses,at $925 a piece,will go straight from the factory to the dump...while "ordinary" people (that's you and I,boys and girls) will be waiting 6 months for heart surgery just like they do in Canada and Britain.
11 posted on
10/07/2013 12:31:32 PM PDT by
Gay State Conservative
(Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
To: ColdOne
When I was younger, we would pride ourselves on our capitalist system. Stories like these were the stuff of distant inefficient communist economies, where central command economies following 5-year plans were wasting resources. We were rich, because we were efficient.
We are all Socialists now.
To: ColdOne
But..but..but..Pelosie says that there is absolutely NOTHING more to be cut!
15 posted on
10/07/2013 12:33:37 PM PDT by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: ColdOne
"...Italian-built C-27J Spartans...
Too bad...the pilots had just received certification for the onboard expresso machines.
16 posted on
10/07/2013 12:33:53 PM PDT by
moovova
To: ColdOne
Italian? Is this a prop up the Italian economy type of procurement?
To: ColdOne
If they’re Italian, that’s probably the safest place for them.....................
20 posted on
10/07/2013 12:40:21 PM PDT by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: ColdOne
23 posted on
10/07/2013 12:46:42 PM PDT by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
To: ColdOne
Get ‘em now and squirrel them away for later. They’ll still fly just fine.
24 posted on
10/07/2013 12:48:09 PM PDT by
PLMerite
(Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
To: All; ColdOne
The Bone yard, is at Davis-Monthum (DM) AFB, TUCSON AZ.
27 posted on
10/07/2013 12:55:37 PM PDT by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: ColdOne
Wait, what?
Does Nancy Pelousie know? I thought no more cuts were possible
28 posted on
10/07/2013 1:00:23 PM PDT by
muir_redwoods
(Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
To: ColdOne
Very efficient. No operating costs, no repairs before retirement, just straight to the boneyard. Next year they can be chopped up and sold for scrap metal.
33 posted on
10/07/2013 1:10:39 PM PDT by
count-your-change
(you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
To: ColdOne
They were supposed to go to the Air National Guard, and be use for in-theater cargo transport. The wind down in Iraq killed them off, so they’re going to be sold to either Iraq or Afghanistan, or both.
They have a cockpit almost identical to the C-130J, and use the same engines and props from the C-130J (hence the C-27J name.) They were developed by Alenia Aeronautica and Lockheed Martin, then LockMart backed out of the deal, so Alenia partnered with L3 Communications as the U.S. partner.
Originally, the U.S. Army was going to purchase and operate the C-27J for their own in-theater cargo delivery, but the USAF put up such a stink that the JCA was given to the USAF. Then the USAF turns around and dumps the entire project.
Awesome aircraft and yet another bonehead move by my beloved USAF to ditch them.
37 posted on
10/07/2013 1:36:58 PM PDT by
Yo-Yo
To: zot
41 posted on
10/07/2013 2:09:19 PM PDT by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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