[NormsRevenge]

Cute looking little things!

[Doogle]

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

[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?

[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.

[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.

[AFreeBird]

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

[Red Badger]

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

[tumblindice]

floating fortresses

[PLMerite]

Get ‘em now and squirrel them away for later. They’ll still fly just fine.

[SandRat]

The Bone yard, is at Davis-Monthum (DM) AFB, TUCSON AZ.

[muir_redwoods]

Wait, what?

Does Nancy Pelousie know? I thought no more cuts were possible

[count-your-change]

Very efficient. No operating costs, no repairs before retirement, just straight to the boneyard. Next year they can be chopped up and sold for scrap metal.

[Yo-Yo]

They were supposed to go to the Air National Guard, and be use for in-theater cargo transport. The wind down in Iraq killed them off, so they’re going to be sold to either Iraq or Afghanistan, or both.

They have a cockpit almost identical to the C-130J, and use the same engines and props from the C-130J (hence the C-27J name.) They were developed by Alenia Aeronautica and Lockheed Martin, then LockMart backed out of the deal, so Alenia partnered with L3 Communications as the U.S. partner.

Originally, the U.S. Army was going to purchase and operate the C-27J for their own in-theater cargo delivery, but the USAF put up such a stink that the JCA was given to the USAF. Then the USAF turns around and dumps the entire project.

Awesome aircraft and yet another bonehead move by my beloved USAF to ditch them.

[GreyFriar]

Son of C-123 ping