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Navy Busts $12.9 Billion Spending Cap On Supercarrier
gCaptain ^ | May 12, 2018 | Tony Capaccio

Posted on 05/12/2018 7:00:58 PM PDT by artichokegrower

The US Navy’s costliest vessel ever just got pricer, breaching a $12.9 billion cap set by Congress by $120 million, the service told lawmakers this week.

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To: JohnBrowdie
it's FR. for a conservative forum, it's off how frequently military innovation gets roundly despised. see any f-35 thread you care to find.

One man's 'innovation' is another man's boondoggle. For a conservative forum, it's off how frequently government failures and overspending is greeted with panglossian drivel. See any F-35 thread you care to find.

41 posted on 05/12/2018 9:55:32 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: Joe 6-pack

“How could they possibly slap the Ford name on something and not expect it to have warrantee issues?”

Yes, as kids, we were always told that FORD meant “Fix Or Repair Daily.” The “less nice descriptor” was “F*cked Over Reworked Dodge!” That said, my first car was a 1929 Model A Roadster Pickup, and today 50 years later, I wished that I had it back. It did have a “Bowtie heart” though. Power came from a 1956 Chevrolet V8!


42 posted on 05/12/2018 10:15:23 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: JohnBrowdie

And look for any of the old threads relative to the V-22 Osprey. There were so many comments here bashing the aircraft.

The Marines and Air Force are very happy with the aircraft!


43 posted on 05/12/2018 11:08:42 PM PDT by octex
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To: artichokegrower

Oh, yeah! None of the equipment in our military forces works right at all. If those close, overseas relatives of our coastal liberaltarians attacked us right now, we’d be defenseless!

[A little more irony and sarcasm there except for the close relatives part.]

;-)


44 posted on 05/13/2018 1:08:20 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Gunslingr3; JohnBrowdie

Yep. An American’s innovation is Ivan’s boondoggle.

...or Hitler’s boondoggle. Oh! Did I say it?

Someone needs to take a shot of vodka. That’s the rule of the new and improved Ivan of the Internet. And oh, no thanks. I don’t drink. Ivan can take that shot of potato whiskey for me.

;-)


45 posted on 05/13/2018 1:18:55 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: MNJohnnie

May that name never be after USS.


46 posted on 05/13/2018 1:40:01 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: artichokegrower

Very much needed as the Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu are ready to set sail any day now.


47 posted on 05/13/2018 3:33:34 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: neverevergiveup

building the Saturn V rocket

Not to worry, no one remembers how to fire the Saturn engines, if they still had a working one ...


48 posted on 05/13/2018 3:56:17 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Snickering Hound

For simplicity sake, what DOES work on this lemon?

The lesbian brigade ...?


49 posted on 05/13/2018 3:57:13 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: miliantnutcase

Because we don’t have Wernher von Braun anymore.

Because we educate and train so few engineers these days, most of whom go into the high tech silicon valley sorts of companies.

Ship design? Weapons design? That’s why we import Chinese engineers ...


50 posted on 05/13/2018 3:59:41 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

On the other hand, electromagnetic launch is very cool!

Cool, but only capable of launching a handful of planes an hour, currently.

The Chinese are building a new carrier hull with EMALS as well - non-ski-jump set up - (they also have rail gun mounted on a test ship).


51 posted on 05/13/2018 4:08:26 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: ealgeone
Agreed
52 posted on 05/13/2018 4:29:29 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: JohnBrowdie
FR is full of armchair generals, most of which never rose above corporal enlisted rank during the short time they actually served, yet they feel qualified to second-guess our career officers from the comfort of their air-conditioned trailer homes. They also try to impress us (and themselves) by cutting and pasting military terms and phrases from online references, interspersing fictional personal experiences to make it seem like they are grizzled veterans so they can casually say things like ("yeah, I served in '72 on a flattop in the Pacific...") in Chuck Yeager like fashion. They also read a lot of Tom Clancy books and manuals (including those that are ghostwritten) to further their command of military jargon so they can give their imaginary war stories additional gravitas.They are also mostly luddites who bemoan modern technologies ("...yeah, back in my day, I'd just take a lug wrench and tamp it down..."). They also proudly proclaim that they never go on social media, not realizing that FR is social media.
53 posted on 05/13/2018 6:41:28 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

> It would be a shame if one of these boats was not named after Donald Trump, but only dead Presidents get so honored. <

No government ship, building, road, etc. should be named after a living person. But it happens all the time. And don’t forget the USS George H.W. Bush. So there is a precedence for the USS Donald J. Trump.


54 posted on 05/13/2018 6:52:24 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: PIF

I’m sure there’s some H1B’s we can teach weapon design to. ;-)


55 posted on 05/13/2018 7:26:39 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: Gunslingr3

they said exactly that about the f-16. they said exactly that about the bradley. they said the same thing about the last enterprise. they said the same thing about the v-22. the point is, they say this a lot. a LOT. they usually turn out to be wrong.

. . . and you can stick your comment about “panglossian drivel” in your tailpipe.


56 posted on 05/13/2018 7:57:05 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: Leaning Right

Just as long as there is never a USS Bill Clinton or Barak Obama. That would be a travesty.


57 posted on 05/13/2018 9:57:28 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (End the Mueller Gestapo now.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
Very much needed as the Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu are ready to set sail any day now.

The Soryu is an active submarine.
The Japanese have a carrier. Of course, we are more concerned about Chinese ships
58 posted on 06/07/2018 7:12:58 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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