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Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

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LOL! the first time I got quoted once the SDF was back:
TerraN_EmpirE said:
Of course you mean how well she will do, you're not trying to claim that it's rigged or anything because that kind of Conspiratorial BS would earn you a lot or ire.
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a reminder am back with those China fanbois, Kremlin fanbois, Western fanbois after me LOL!

man call it a conspiracy if you want, but I seriously think the PR Department has a carefully worded press release ready before an exercise starts, with the plan to make the aircraft look even more fantastic, phenomenal, awesome, ... unprecedented win-to-kill ratio achieved! fanbois dropping their jaws, who would mention (except of me hahaha) there's more "kills" than "missiles carried" (neither is reality hahaha)

I hope in a realistic part of exercises they get ready for the real world situations, as in
Jun 24, 2017
Jura said:
Monday at 6:35 AM
Jura said:
here's DefenseNews story:
Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet shoots down Syrian jet after it attacks US allies
source:
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but How did a 30 year-old Su-22 defeat a modern AIM-9X?
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Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

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of course predictions like "over the course of the fifth-generation jet’s production" have to be made, but may be actually short-lived ...:
Air Force’s Slower F-35 Buy Rate Spurs Nearly $30B Cost Hike
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The total acquisition cost of the
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program is estimated to rise by $27.5 billion over the course of the fifth-generation jet’s production, according to recently disclosed figures.

According to the 2016 Selected Acquisition Report, published in December and delivered to lawmakers Monday, the total cost projection for the Defense Department’s most expensive acquisition program shot up from $379 billion in 2015 to $406.5 billion in 2016 — a 7 percent increase.

One reason? The
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doesn’t plan to buy so many of the aircraft so soon.

The service — which will buy the more F-35s than the
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and
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— decreased its annual buy rate and thus extended the program, causing a shift in procurement costs, among other effects, said Rear Adm. Mat Winter, the program executive officer for the F-35 Joint Program Office.

“The U.S. Air Force reduced its maximum annual rate of aircraft procured from 80 per year down to 60 per year, which extended the planned purchases by six additional years from Fiscal Year (FY) 38 to FY44,” he said in an email statement.

Winter said the quantity reduction, in tandem with the six-year extension, drove an increase in costs. For one, the total program cost — including the F-35’s operations and sustainment added to the acquisition costs — is now estimated to increase by $27.5 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars.

It also caused a slight uptick in the
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‘s average cost per plane over the course of the program, or Unit Recurring Flyaway Cost. The A model increased from $100.6 million in inflation-adjusted dollars in 2015 to $111.3 million in 2016, according to the report.

On Tuesday, the head of Air Combat Command, Gen. Mike Holmes, said he would prefer an increased buy rate of the Lockheed Martin-made F-35 — but it’s not a budget reality.

“We really should be buying 80 or 100,” Holmes told the audience at an Air Force Association breakfast in Washington, D.C. He said an increased buy rate of even “150 fighters a year” would help offset the average service age — 27 years old — of jets currently in the inventory.

“But in the world I’m in, with the budget I have, I’d like to get to 60,” he said.

Winter said the program “remains within all cost, schedule and performance thresholds and continues to make steady progress,” and the JPO is “committed to the delivery of cost-effective warfighting capability.”

Meanwhile, the Marine Corps plans to add 13
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, the short-takeoff-and-vertical landing version of the Lightning II, bumping the F-35 jet buy total to 2,456 from 2,443.
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F-35 Program Costs Jump to $406.5 Billion in Latest Estimate
The cost of the F-35 jet program, already the most expensive U.S. weapons program ever, is estimated to climb further as the plane’s production period gets extended, according to figures submitted to Congress on Monday.

Total acquisition costs for
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next-generation fighter may rise about 7 percent to $406.5 billion, according to figures in a document known as a Selected Acquisition Report. That’s a reversal after several years of estimates that had declined to $379 billion recently from a previous high of $398.5 billion in early 2014.

The Pentagon’s F-35 program office said in a statement that the $27.5 billion increase is reflected in current “then-year” dollars that cover research, development, procurement and military construction. The separate roughly $1.1 trillion long-term operations and support estimate to keep the aircraft flying until 2070 increased by $35.3 billion.

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Jura said:
of course predictions like "over the course of the fifth-generation jet’s production" have to be made, but may be actually short-lived ...:
Air Force’s Slower F-35 Buy Rate Spurs Nearly $30B Cost Hike
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where's the surprise here Jura, everyone has warned that the sequester and other cuts would exponentially raise prices, particularly our own Jeff Head, whose integrity is as high as BD Popeye's, there are NOT two more honest men on the planet??
 
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Equation said:
Whatever happen to Trump promising to work out a deal to lower the cost of the F-35?:eek:o_O
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this is not a game, Trump has lowered prices by making a firm commitment to buy airplanes, Obama drove up costs and drove down readiness, our military is "suffering" yet from Obama era cuts and equipment maintenance short cuts.

"JIMMY CARTER JR!" that's Obama's legacy! Trump is working to get the balance right, but those who don't understand "flow" and the process that any manufacturing takes will continue to be "naysayers"!

and frankly some of our best friends here are playing for the other team! fly your flag gentlemen, lets not pretend to plqy on both teams!
 
Equation

Equation

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has not happened yet.:cool:. He still has three and 1/2 years to go...Right now he's busy dodging fiery darts of the media.
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No he is dodging from his Russian connection darts. His son is already being investigating.;)


Air Force Brat said:
this is not a game, Trump has lowered prices by making a firm commitment to buy airplanes, Obama drove up costs and drove down readiness, our military is "suffering" yet from Obama era cuts and equipment maintenance short cuts.

"JIMMY CARTER JR!" that's Obama's legacy! Trump is working to get the balance right, but those who don't understand "flow" and the process that any manufacturing takes will continue to be "naysayers"!

and frankly some of our best friends here are playing for the other team! fly your flag gentlemen, lets not pretend to plqy on both teams!
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So it's Obama's problems and fault regardless if Trump was in office. The bottom line is how much can the American tax payers can continue to pay for this "flow" process and manufacturing that keeps on increasing due to continuing cost in everything?o_O
 
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