Those supers are pretty new! Delivered within the last ten years about. Read more
It “FAILED” seriously, do you want me to be a shill for contractors here? What do you want me to call it? Read more
That is so nice of you to say, thank you. I would love to do a book. I would love to do fiction actually and tie all this stuff in. Read more
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nobody is saying make niche platforms or saying to drop multi role capability. The inclusion of STOVL handicapped the JSF design, as such 85+ % of the JSF force will pay dearly in opportunity cost for that decision/capability. Read more
Cutting losses is almost unheard of in the defense procurement world. Often times cancellations that appear to be based on ‘cutting losses’ are more political or capabilities driven than anything else. It REALLY has to not work and the tech to have moved on to cancel something on budgetary concerns, but then again,… Read more
But they are already building ship 2 and the Enterprise WAS an experimental ship. It was never meant to last as long as it did. Read more
Totally disagree, and insulted you think I would put this much time into something I don’t believe. Feel free to make an argument against it. The facts are all right there. I don’t make this stuff up. Read more
Well, technically, it is your kid’s kid’s tax money at this point Read more
Isn’t that wild. Take a look at what a nuclear ICBM silo looks like these days. Read more
We can do testbeds on a much smaller scale to at least buy back a large portion of the risk, in this case, this thing will be commissioned in a year and all this is a mess. Love to see RELIABLE updated figures on EMALS. It just failed during a huge press deal they did yesterday. Read more
These are mission killing high-risk low-reward technologies on a $13B+ asset, one that is supported by an entire flotilla. It has to do one thing no matter what, launch and recover aircraft. Without that, it is useless. You can spiral upgrades into the next ship in the class. Read more
Probably not. It was much less mature. No JSF should have been chosen. An aircraft for the Navy and Air Force and one for the Marines specifically should have been built using common avionics an sub-systems, not airframes. Read more
Yeah, it talks about that in the piece. They were probably hunting him for a while, but did not have a positive ID until now. Read more
We are not talking about TSA, but about air-side security which is totally different. Read more
A cruise ship is a slow moving luxury animal, not commercial air travel. Read more
It was in the theater. It can carry a low of 500lbs to cover a good sized area, it can retarget rapidly, decent fuel load for loitering and it can defend itself if it had to. Read more
Thanks! But be prepared, it is a dark and deep rabbit hole to fall into my friend haha. Read more
Greatly appreciated! just fixed! Read more