Posted on 02/26/2010 6:45:03 PM PST by GOPGuide
2009 DCMA Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Reports:
http://www.cdi.org/pdfs/2009-07LMFWJSF.pdf
http://www.cdi.org/pdfs/2009-08LMFWJSF.pdf
http://www.cdi.org/pdfs/2009-10LMFWJSF.pdf
http://www.cdi.org/pdfs/2009-11LMFWJSF.pdf
2009 DCMA Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Reports:
http://www.cdi.org/pdfs/2009-07LMFWJSF.pdf
http://www.cdi.org/pdfs/2009-08LMFWJSF.pdf
http://www.cdi.org/pdfs/2009-10LMFWJSF.pdf
http://www.cdi.org/pdfs/2009-11LMFWJSF.pdf
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They’re going to have to start doing something quickly. The Marine Corps has some F-18s that are about to start falling out of the sky. They were already ending their predicted service life to say nothing of the incredibly heavy use they’ve endured the last 20 years.
Obama killed the F-22 Raptor, the best fighter aircraft in the world: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2444670/posts
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When will Pukin Dog come back to FR so he can gloat about how the F-35 was the flying Turkey he always said it was?
Lockheed Martin put a poison pill in the contract because they had foreign partners that will cost the US Government huge bucks to cancel this contract.
There are a lot of problems on the F-35 as they took money from one part of the company working on logistics support to try and get the plane underweight to land on a carrier. That left their proposal for the newest and best Automatic Test Systems (ATS) running on empty. Then they had the problem with wiring in the missile bays shorting out and frying for starters.
Lockheed has had to know for years this plane was a disaster but kept giving rosy reports.
One big problem was the merger of Air Force Systems and Logistics Commands. When a new system came on board before the merger you had checks and balances between the new system and the logistics systems like ATS so that AFLC would have discovered early on that Lockheed pulled the money from the ATS to support aero when they was little to no progress being made. It was a bad merger because now there are no checks and balances and you have a mentality that only shiny and new counts. Then they made the Super SPO’s in DC and it has become worse not better.
There is also a major problem brewing at Warner Robins with their ATS Group that will cost the AF millions into billions if allowed to continue. Someone is protecting them in the Pentagon but for how long, no one knows. They are attempting to bring manufacturing in house of ATS and put 67 ATS contractors out of business and force weapon systems to buy new ATS systems when they just purchased them. It is not a new system but Teradyne Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) with a new name VDATS.
B-1 who just finished buying Teradyne testers for over $70M was told to put the new VDATS in their budget for over $100M plus Research and Development dollars which is essentially buying a label for their system since they already have the new ATS by Teradyne which is same as VDATS by Warner Robins. Ever heard of R&D for something that is already in the Family of Testers. Strange thing about that it was put in the Family of Testers before it fully built.
FOI with a lot of questions was returned by Secretary of the Air Force with spin and not providing any documentation to speak of except to show they put the VDATS in the Family of Testers before it was built.
Been involved in this for almost nine months — wheels of Congress when a Democrat heads investigations move very slow!
It was more than 3 years ago, and he claimed inside info that the Bush administration would kill it. He fled FR before his nose could be rubbed in it.
See posts 14 and 15 from this thread from 2004 - not the first, probably not the last, but you can dig out others yourself if you need them.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/1206053/posts
The F-35 assembly line at Forth Worth, Texas is being cannibalized for parts to support flight testing.Did anyone tell 'em they got the job? Thanks GOPGuide.
The documents came from an FIOA, which means they are in control of a government agency. Which means that, whatever else is true, the government contracting agency knows exactly what is in these documents, and therefore knows whatever truth there is to know.
So there is no way that the government is being misled based on these documents.
It can’t be too bad, it’s actually flying.
Are you accusing our wonderful federal government of both lying and being incompetent?
Increase production of the F-22, and develop the F-22N Sea Raptor variant.
“Are you accusing our wonderful federal government of both lying and being incompetent?...”
LOL...I assume you listened/watched the DeathCare Summit yesterday?
Nuff said.
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The F-22 requires 30 hours of maintenance time for every 1 hour of flight during peace time. No AF in the world would be able to effectively maintain such a fickle aircraft during war time.
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