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gelgoog

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The for profit US private MIC would rather have you forget even the capitalist US used to have large state arsenals. These were not just places to store weapons and ammo or even to make ammo. They also made rifles and cannon.

The bazooka was invented by the US Army Ordnance Corps not the private MIC. The M1 Garand rifle was developed at Springfield Armory.
 
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There's a reason for these. :eek:



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Every US projects with their initial estimate will end up 50-100-150% overbudget. It is the same with their infrastructure projects.

This is the reason they are building less and less new infrastructure and military platforms or even cut the project altogether.
 
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gelgoog

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Overruns are normal when a project gets delayed. And delays are normal when the DoD keeps changing the requirements.

What isn't normal is having an unreliable platform like the F-35. Part of this I think is the private contractors having too much control over the platform maintenance, and the lousy unreliable underpowered undercooled engine.
 
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Great article that I think underplays the amount of new aircraft that would need to be acquired per year. What I think we might be witnessing is a death spiral of sorts, in which the "invest to divest" mentality destroys current capacity while not building for the future.
 
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vincent

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SlothmanAllen said:
Great article that I think underplays the amount of new aircraft that would need to be acquired per year. What I think we might be witnessing is a death spiral of sorts, in which the "invest to divest" mentality destroys current capacity while not building for the future.
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US industries are rotten. Can't build anything old well and can't build anything new anymore.
 
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mack8

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1948324837157466571

Seems like Lockheed was awarded a big project back in 2018. The project was fixed price and they are taking some large losses from it.

Bill Sweetman speculates it is some sort of "ultra-long endurance HALE aircraft" with potential SIGINT and missile defense applications.

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Well, i was speculating some kind of higher tier CCA, since among others there was mention of international customers? Something that would go with F-35, probably F-15EX and export variants and of course NGAD? Does this theory has any credence?
 
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mack8 said:
Well, i was speculating some kind of higher tier CCA, since among others there was mention of international customers? Something that would go with F-35, probably F-15EX and export variants and of course NGAD? Does this theory has any credence?
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USAF does not seem to be buying into the ultra high end CCA concept like PLAAF and instead seems to be investing into cheap disposable drones with increment 2 requirement possibly being air launched and cheaper than increment 1.
 
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Tomboy

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SlothmanAllen said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1948324837157466571

Seems like Lockheed was awarded a big project back in 2018. The project was fixed price and they are taking some large losses from it.

Bill Sweetman speculates it is some sort of "ultra-long endurance HALE aircraft" with potential SIGINT and missile defense applications.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1948384313986154623
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It seems most people agree with this being a new ISR platform but consensus on what type has not been reached, some people think it might be some kind of hypersonic/sub orbital aircraft with international customers refering to close US allies being able to buy/recieve intel collected by this platform while others think it'll likely be a ultra long endurance ISR replacement for the RQ-180 similar to the WZ-X in Malan.
 
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