Posted on 08/30/2016 6:11:03 AM PDT by artichokegrower
The Pentagon’s top weapons buyer has ordered an independent review of the $12.9 billion Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, citing a list of actual and potential deficiencies with the costliest warship ever.
(Excerpt) Read more at gcaptain.com ...
Other than it can't move, launch or recover aircraft and the radar doesn't work it's a pretty good ship.
SABOTAGE by Iranian, Russian, North Korean and Chinese agents, for years...
I mean, could you think of a less auspicious name?
Okay okay, maybe Harvey Milk.
Col. Robert Laurel Smith: In summation, what you have before you is...
Sgt. Fanning: A troop transport that can’t carry troops, a reconnaissance vehicle that’s too conspicuous to do reconnaissance...
Lt. Colonel James Burton: And a quasi-tank that has less armor than a snow-blower, but carries enough ammo to take out half of D.C. THIS is what we’re building?
Probably used Chinese steel and parts.
Probably by US defense contractors, following the old consultant mantra: “If you aren’t part of the solution, there is good money to be made in prolonging the problem.”
The Navy has had a DBR program underway for at least a couple of decades now that I know of. Combining lower frequency wide area search/scanning with high speed X band search and track/engagement is one thing. Making them both LO is another.
Don’t need sabotage when gross incompetence is coupled with no oversight on a fat government contract.
But is the crew diverse and inclusive of the LGBTQ community? That’s what matters to the Navy nowadays. A global force for goody goody.
Look, as long as it has transgendered everything, and the crew has taken sensitivity training, these are small issues.
With a name like Gerald R. Ford what could go wrong?
It seems that for many of today's defense contractors, it's all about making as much as possible, while the brass at the pentagon are working to pad their own nests, setting up a nice comfy consultant just once their hitch is up. And finally, congress sees the military as nothing more than a social experiment crucible and jobs program for their state.
Eisenhower was right in a lot of ways.
Mark
Could send out one of the Littoral Combat Ships for an escort. Oh wait never mind
Littoral Combat Ship USS Freedom Suffers Engine Casualty
http://gcaptain.com/littoral-combat-ship-uss-freedom-suffers-engineering-casualty/
Uh, Jim Burton was a Colonel when he got involved in the Bradley Fighting Vehicle test program. He was my boss.
TC
It’s only tax dollars! It’s not like it’s real money
The phrase “Good enough for government work” means any old crap you can throw together you can give to the customer on a government contract
When idiot Al Gore was running for office, he said “Good enough for government work” was a sign of quality- I would LOVE to meet the guy who told him that and shake his hand.
I bet he was laughing his ass off (as well as thousands of other workers who heard it) when alGore repeated it in public.
So they can find a FED that can ride my ass to do a sand cone test for every 6 nuke gauge tests on a parking lot and “while the spec is 95% we’d like to see you get 97% for compaction” but they can’t seem to round up a pack of these anal QC guys to ride herd on a 12 billion dollar carrier???
Yes, I know Burton was an Air Force colonel. I put the quote from the movie up because of the parallel theme (an aircraft carrier that can’t arrest landings ...) Besides, it is a great quote!
So, he was your boss ... tell us a little about him that we didn’t get in the movie or the book.
Your cynicism is really uncalled for. First of all, the carrier bears the name of a president, following recent tradition where the presidency is worshipped.
The old tiresome Revolutionary war era names are no longer used.
There will be no bothersome Ticonderoga, no Cowpens, no Saratoga, no Lexington, no Bennington. No Yorktown, no Enterprise.
Now we get to worship politicians.
And you selfish prig, did you even take a moment to see how the ship was engineered and designed to finally accommodate women and their needs in living quarters? And what about trannys?
The navy has made this one of the happiest ships to be found anywhere outside the dedicated commercial cruise ship fleet.
Sometimes....
I read that they reduced him a rank in the movie because the actor looked to young to be a full colonel.
Honoring the memory of the president who declared that Eastern Europe wasn’t under soviet domination.
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