Posted on 08/01/2020 10:57:46 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Edited on 08/01/2020 3:39:56 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Also worth noting: https://tinyurl.com/y6bbfn77
If you believe Congress is privy to every bit of research and development my the Pentagon you would be wildly wrong.
The Congress appropriates fund for the military and after the funds are allocated the Congress has little say as to exactly how they are spent.
The Pentagon does NOT report to the Congress when they enter into R&D for a new weapons system. The Congress is told only on a “need to know” basis. If you know Congress critters, you know why it is done this way.
The Navy has already declared the Ford non-operational for the foreseeable future and is designated as a training ship. They hope to work the bugs out to make the other ordered 3 in the class operational.
PS: so do the Chinese, who stole the plans and are building 4 like it, but are waiting for the US to fix them so they can steal the fixes. The Ford is one more demonstration the poster child for the Navy brass' stupidity and hubris
Many thanks for elucidating. I am going to keep track of the USS Gerald R. Ford. I was unaware of the disgraceful situation it is in. 17 billion to build an aircarft carrier that is not 100% operational.
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https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone
I will take a look. Thanks!
Interesting observation - thank you.
Thanks for your reply.
Congress does have the final say on what gets bought after the R&D is completed - and they’ve been steering that the wrong way for most of the past two decades. Again - if you were correct, where are our flotillas of current frigates? Where’s the thousands of F-22s? Where’s the ammo for the DD-1000’s main gun?
We have the strongest military by a pretty long way and I never saw or read where we were supposed to have “thousands of F22” And btw they are an almost equal footing as the F35.
Anyway, you can but I’m not loosing sleep over what you perceive to be our military weaknesses.
I’ll pretty much accept this:
The F-22 was originally supposed to have at least 750 of the first revision plus sales to a few trusted allies. The follow-on version was to have at least as many, and the plan was that F-22 variants should replace all of our F-15s. We ended up with 187, of which several have been destroyed without replacements and many of which are unserviceable.
The F-35 is nowhere near as capable in air to air or even ground support as the F-22. Its integral cannon has only 200 rounds - one or two bursts. Maybe three.
The F-35 is nowhere near as capable in air to air or even ground support as the F-22. Its integral cannon has only 200 rounds - one or two bursts. Maybe three.
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Not what I read but then I don’t fly the thing and truthfully neither you or I know the exact capabilities of the ones we fly which would be different from what we sell to our allies.
The 181 round limit on the A model has been confirmed by pilots, the contractor and Congress. There just isn’t room for more ammo, and they’re resorting back to non-stealth gun pods for the ground attack role on the A. The B and C models don’t have an internal gun at all and are relegated to pods carrying 220 rounds.
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