[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

My guess is that J-UCAV wasn't going the direction the USAF thinks it needs

I don't think this is the case.

Regardless of techical issues, this program is our key UAV program. If the money is available, you make improvements to the program. New software, new engine, new whatever, . . . If the money is availble, you just prototype a new model or variant. At some point in the future, UAVs will be a major platform. This program was our developmental program. Since UAVs will play some role in the far off future, or even the major role, then if the money is available, you keep improving the developmental program up until the time full scale production is ripe.

This program is being killed for the reasons I stated--there is no money! The cost of welfare and charity, and the points I made in #14 are the reasons why the program is being killed.

Socialism trumps the defense and security of the USA.

[Pukin Dog]

I think what Mr Rodgers is trying to tell you, is that there is always money for programs that are working. If that program was on track, making progress and solving problems, I guarantee you that Rummy would find some cash for it. I don't have to tell you that programs like this are committed to producing certain results by a certain time frame. If they don't make it, they are gone. The other thing to consider, is that there are black programs that might have filled the mission requirement for your program, making it obsolete. Happens all the time.