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Topics => Military News/Veterans => Topic started by: Libertas on June 18, 2014, 11:53:16 AM

Title: F-35B & MV-22 Heat Issues
Post by: Libertas on June 18, 2014, 11:53:16 AM

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htairfo/articles/20140613.aspx (http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htairfo/articles/20140613.aspx)

 ::facepalm::

How does something so obvious get overlooked?

 ::unknowncomic::

Title: Re: F-35B & MV-22 Heat Issues
Post by: benb61 on June 18, 2014, 03:59:36 PM

Go with the lowest bidder and things get overlooked.  In the F-35B case the heat problem was addressed by Boeing but it drove the cost up.  Buy the F-35B for $X/aircraft and then install $100X heat abatement system, or go with supplier B at $1.5X/aircraft and be done with the expense.  Government should be run like a business, where every angle is investigated before a dime is spent.

Title: Re: F-35B & MV-22 Heat Issues
Post by: Libertas on June 19, 2014, 08:22:33 AM

The right cronies coughed up the right contributions to get awarded the bid...that's how stuff gets forgot...

Title: Re: F-35B & MV-22 Heat Issues
Post by: Dan on June 19, 2014, 08:41:56 AM

"Solutions are still being sought".
Won't solve current problem, but to deter future f**k ups, how about finding out who's responsible and hanging them?

Title: Re: F-35B & MV-22 Heat Issues
Post by: Libertas on June 19, 2014, 11:37:17 AM

Scratch too deep and a politician or high-ranking bureaucrat will be found guilty...

And it takes balls to do that...and hang 'em...

I see no balls...

The hangings will be up to others...

 ;)