F-35: "a joke", "a white elephant", "world's most expensive mistake"

[midnight rambler]

Will the flag-waving rubes ever wake up to the fact they've been had? (rhetorical question lol)

http://sputniknews.com/military/20150511/1021988428.html

[7th trump]

Will the flag-waving rubes ever wake up to the fact they've been had? (rhetorical question lol)

http://sputniknews.com/military/20150511/1021988428.html

hahahahaha....sputnik news......straight from a commy traitor.

Gee if Putin is so great...why isn't he dismantling communist Russia and returning it to its former glory of a kingship?
Instead the jew Putin is arming russia

[Cebu_4_2]

He is re-armoring the populace incase the jew world order comes knocking, vs the USi's decree of unarming the populace so we can be so succumbing.

[ximmy]

They do it over and over again...

22 years, $6,900,000,000 (http://nation.time.com/2012/05/25/real-lessons-from-an-unreal-helicopter/) spent and zero helicopters. Originally conceived at the height of the Cold War, it was supposed to become the next-generation of armed reconnaissance air support for the Army, replacing the Huey, Cobra and Kiowa helicopters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing-Sikorsky_RAH-66_Comanche) in the process. A textbook case in technology being superseded by current events, the Comanche also faced serious concerns (http://nation.time.com/2012/05/25/real-lessons-from-an-unreal-helicopter/) over its ability to simply get off the ground when fully loaded. The program was cancelled in 2004 with two prototypes now on display.
http://warontherocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Rah-66.jpg (http://warontherocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Rah-66.jpg)RAH66 Commanche (U.S. Government Work)

1. Future Combat System (FCS)
First introduced in 1999 by Army Chief of Staff, Eric Shinseki, FCS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Combat_Systems) was supposed to be a family of networked, manned and unmanned vehicles and aircraft for the 21st century battlefield. With the Warfighter Information Network – Tactical (WIN-T) intended to support the FCS, it was supposed to be a wholesale re-envisioning of the ground force. However, the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 short-circuited a 15-year operational pause that the military was hoping for to implement the program. Spiral development and shifting requirements (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/fcs.htm) by the Army also resulted in costs ballooning by 25%. Finally, after $19,000,000,000 already spent (http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2011/12/19/how-to-waste-100-billion-weapons-that-didnt-work-out/) and the program in the System Design and Demonstration phase, Secretary Gates cancelled the program in 2009, making it the biggest failure of the RMA era.
http://warontherocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/FCS2HOW.jpg (http://warontherocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/FCS2HOW.jpg)Future Combat System Mounted Combat System (U.S. Government Work)

http://warontherocks.com/2014/12/top-10-failed-defense-programs-of-the-rma-era/

[Cebu_4_2]

Nice job, how much of the money would we have saved per person?

ZERO

It just don't matter what they spend or waste.

[gunDriller]

I worked with a large team on the primary electronics for the Comanche, F22, and JSF.

the electronics on the Comanche was actually in much better shape than the F22.


F22 was a JOKE. they would finish Revision 1. then some idiot re-designed it ... removing a lot of the ground plane - "to save money" - for Rev. 2.


but that ground plane (that got removed) provided EMI shielding.

call from 'management' ... "OH, we NEEDED that ground-plane."


I was called in to do the Rev. 3 re-design - to take the Rev. 2, and put the ground plane back in.

this meant EVERY SINGLE CABLE ASSEMBLY, on a backplane with 5000+ interconnects ... all re-designed.