Aircraft Carriers III
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Jura The idiot
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I think you have two problems:
(plus Mr. Stackley, previously responsible for the USN Research, Development and Acquisition, is still the acting SecNav!!)
those individuals will keep saying how wonderful game changing revolutionary transformational results they'll eventually achieve
F-35s (where the problem is aggravated by 'one size fits all' attempt);
LCSs;
the Zumwalts;
the Fords ... and they might've just switched back to building for example the Nimitzes again (and another working models for the other programs I mentioned) but they didn't, making those programs 'too big to fail'
I'll leave it at that (for now
here the problem is still the same Managers sit in vendors' chairs, and the same Program Officers sit in Navy oversight chairs
(plus Mr. Stackley, previously responsible for the USN Research, Development and Acquisition, is still the acting SecNav!!)
those individuals will keep saying how wonderful game changing revolutionary transformational results they'll eventually achieve
here the problem is while indeed only projects which promised quantum leap and stuff had had a chance to get funded under Don, he quit in 2006 (zero-six, not sixteen), so since then the USN, the Congress and others has had enough time to realize what a BLUNDER the concurrency is, by just looking at, in last let's say five years:
F-35s (where the problem is aggravated by 'one size fits all' attempt);
LCSs;
the Zumwalts;
the Fords ... and they might've just switched back to building for example the Nimitzes again (and another working models for the other programs I mentioned) but they didn't, making those programs 'too big to fail'
I'll leave it at that (for now
I think you have two problems:
here the problem is still the same Managers sit in vendors' chairs, and the same Program Officers sit in Navy oversight chairs
(plus Mr. Stackley, previously responsible for the USN Research, Development and Acquisition, is still the acting SecNav!!)
those individuals will keep saying how wonderful game changing revolutionary transformational results they'll eventually achieve
here the problem is while indeed only projects which promised quantum leap and stuff had had a chance to get funded under Don, he quit in 2006 (zero-six, not sixteen), so since then the USN, the Congress and others has had enough time to realize what a BLUNDER the concurrency is, by just looking at, in last let's say five years:
F-35s (where the problem is aggravated by 'one size fits all' attempt);
LCSs;
the Zumwalts;
the Fords ... and they might've just switched back to building for example the Nimitzes again (and another working models for the other programs I mentioned) but they didn't, making those programs 'too big to fail'
I'll leave it at that (for now
So by your logic we should resurrect the F-14?? Yes??? and the happier times of the "kold war?" sounds good, but USAF must resurrect the F-22, then I'll play!
Every single one of th prgrams Jura named...
The LCS,
The F-35
The Zumwalts
and the Ford
every one of them are going to ultimtely be VERY successful and they are all going to produce fantatsic results that keeps the US Navy head shoulders above all others.
As I have said many times on these boards...
are there problems?
Yes...of course there are. when you push the envelope like these programs do, you are going to have prgrams. But no oe is better at ultimately recognizing and overcoming said difficulties and going on to produce the promised reults than the US Navy and her vendors.
And that will be the case with eery single one of them.
Ti still try and hapr on the F-35 because it is a design that addresses three branches is simply ludicrous. That is water under the bridge and it is in fact doing it...addressing all three branches.
The Air Force is getting a 5th gen stealth fihgter that will be produced in number slike the F-16...just whjat we need. And the price is coming down to the very area they said it would.
The US Marines are getting at VTOL (and STOVL) Aircraft for their LHD/LHAs that will be far better than the harrier...5th gen steakth aircraft with sensr fusion that can take off or land vertially. AMAZING stuff. No one else has put a production bird out that can do what it will do.
And the Navy is getting a carrier bird with larger wings, longer range, more payload, and the ability to bring 5th gen stealth to the big carriers.
Again...no one else is close to doing that.
I can say similar things abuyt each of the other prgrams. but rest assured, they are going to produce
O all of them the LCS has had the hardest time reaching its potential...but they have figured out what most of told them years ago, and now we are going to get an LCS and then Frigate that will be able to get the job done.
'nuff said.
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Heh! Heh! Heh!,,, our Popeye does like to keep us entertained, and what better way than to have an "alter-ego", kinda like Superman (Popeye), and Clark Kent (test bd) to play off of.....
and when you get to be our age, sometimes the only one with any sense in a room is your own "lovable self", and we talk to our selves? or better yet? mutter under our breath!
remember "Dastardly and Muttley", Muttley always muttered under his breath when Dick Dastardly would give him an order!
Jura The idiot
General
LOL the best part is when he attaches Likes to those self-posts
Jura The idiot
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