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[Atomicfrog]

Block 1 of the CCA will not have onboard radars or weapons bay due to cost and development progress. Later blocks will gradually incorporate them but in the case of something like Anduril which has a single large vertical slab, VLO is not part of the design.

So, taking the same path than F-35... will take block 4 and 20+ years before reaching some capabilities.

 

[TK3600]

So CCA will have neither radar or weapon bay. It is just a non-stealth weapon carrier.

 

[talonn]

So CCA will have neither radar or weapon bay. It is just a non-stealth weapon carrier.

Yep. Not impressed. at least B-21 had oomph factor. This one however does not.

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

Lmfao

 

[CaribouTruth]

I hope that's a joke.

 

[Lethe]

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I don't know (or care) much about the details of these platforms, but to go from "air-droppable from a C-130J" to "one vehicle per C-17 only" is an impressive level of design/requirements creep that does indeed suggest a program that was less than fully thought through from the outset. Like setting out to build a Gripen and ending up with an F-15EX.

In any case, the program is now

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An Army official today confirmed that the service will stop producing Humvees and Joint Light Tactical Vehicles. And General Dynamics Land Systems will be told to stop producing its brand new light tank, the M10 Booker. (The Wall Street Journal first reported on those cuts.) “The Booker is a classic example of sunk cost fallacy, and the Army doing something wrong,” [Army Secretary] Driscoll said. “We wanted to develop a small tank that was agile and could be dropped into places our regular tanks can’t. We got a heavy tank.”

 

[mack8]

I hope that's a joke.

I guess someone has to pay for those F-18s lost recently. You drop it, you break it, you pay for it.

 

[sheogorath]

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[SlothmanAllen]

President Trumps FY26 DoD budget proposal increases funding by 13% to $1.01 trillion(!).

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[supersnoop]

Block 1 of the CCA will not have onboard radars or weapons bay due to cost and development progress. Later blocks will gradually incorporate them but in the case of something like Anduril which has a single large vertical slab, VLO is not part of the design.

If this is not a real VLO design, then is this really just a modern version of "J-6 turned into a drone"?