New Air Force cargo planes fly straight into mothballs

foxnews.com ^ | 10/7/13 | daytondailynews

[ColdOne]

There's nothing wrong with the C-27J, it's just that the Pentagon doesn't want it given budget constraints.

The Pentagon is sending $50 million cargo planes straight from the assembly line to mothballs because it has no use for them, yet it still hasn’t stopped ordering the aircraft, according to a report.

A dozen nearly new Italian-built C-27J Spartans have been shipped to an Air Force facility in Arizona dubbed “the boneyard,” and five more currently under construction are likely headed for the same fate, according to an investigation by the Dayton Daily News. The Air Force has spent $567 million on 21 of the planes since 2007, according to purchasing officials at Dayton’s Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Of those, 16 have been delivered – with almost all sent directly to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, where some 4,400 aircraft and 13 aerospace vehicles, with a total value of more than $35 billion, sit unused.

[NormsRevenge]

Cute looking little things!

[Doogle]

...looks a lot like the old C-123

[Doogle]

[Smokin' Joe]

From the article:

"They are too near completion for a termination to be cost effective and other government agencies have requested the aircraft," Mayer told the paper.(emphasis mine)

I wonder if the boneyard is just a refueling stop on the way to Duh-1's private army somewhere?

[GeronL]

The Pentagon is sending $50 million cargo planes straight from the assembly line to mothballs because it has no use for them, yet it still hasn’t stopped ordering the aircraft, according to a report.

and they say government is not efficient and cost effective. //sarc

[bunkerhill7]

Badda Badda Bone

[Gay State Conservative]

Let me guess...production hasn't stopped so as to prevent major donors to the Rat Party becoming upset?

[Cicero]

And how’s their stockpile of toilet seats coming along?

[snoringbear]

The old C-123 was what came to mind when I saw the pic too.

[Gay State Conservative]

Under Osama Obama Care tens of millions of trusses,at $925 a piece,will go straight from the factory to the dump...while "ordinary" people (that's you and I,boys and girls) will be waiting 6 months for heart surgery just like they do in Canada and Britain.

[Pearls Before Swine]

When I was younger, we would pride ourselves on our capitalist system. Stories like these were the stuff of distant inefficient communist economies, where central command economies following 5-year plans were wasting resources. We were rich, because we were efficient.

We are all Socialists now.

[mountainlion]

They just put port holes in the old model.

[GeronL]

BUMP

that is what happens in socialism

[Don Corleone]

But..but..but..Pelosie says that there is absolutely NOTHING more to be cut!

[moovova]

"...Italian-built C-27J Spartans...

Too bad...the pilots had just received certification for the onboard expresso machines.

[listenhillary]

Government / corporate cronyism shouldn’t be confused with capitalism.

We haven’t had capitalism for well over 100 years that hasn’t been tainted by progressives and their socialist puke.

[AFreeBird]

Italian? Is this a prop up the Italian economy type of procurement?

[Doogle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e84ZLDo948U

“Thunder Pig”

[Red Badger]

If they’re Italian, that’s probably the safest place for them.....................