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Paulie

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15. Develop and fly should be develop and fly-off

Reply to sir pball (Reply #14)

Sat Mar 2, 2013, 11:40 AM

Mar 2013

Don't procure until two vendors perform a fly off. It's how we got the original F16. And of course the loser of that fly off became the F18 for the navy... Then they turned the F16 into an overweight multi role.

The A10 was another good project. Took a gun and ammo, built the plane around the mission then the Air Force said we don't want it because it was effective and took away from their high tech boondoggles.

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Welfare Queens. Egalitarian Thug Mar 2013 #1

+1 xchrom Mar 2013 #2

Cons scream about someone driving a (used?) cadillac zbdent Mar 2013 #4

Yep. It's all bullshit. jsr Mar 2013 #6

+2, n/t RKP5637 Mar 2013 #7

Indeed! eom City Lights Mar 2013 #11

Welfare queens.... Zax2me Mar 2013 #12

Unlike the F-35, at least it's effective, when it's flyable. leveymg Mar 2013 #3

which was it that can't fly in the rain? zbdent Mar 2013 #5

Rain made the anti-radar coatings on the F-117 and B-2 less effective, and they had to be repainted leveymg Mar 2013 #13

In the entire operational history of the F-14, F-15, F-16, & F-18, only one Egalitarian Thug Mar 2013 #8

They actually aren't nearly that cheap. sir pball Mar 2013 #14

Develop and fly should be develop and fly-off Paulie Mar 2013 #15

There was a prototype flyoff.. sir pball Mar 2013 #16

Some are, here's numbers... Egalitarian Thug Mar 2013 #21

The Lightning program absolutely needs to be scrapped, immediately sir pball Mar 2013 #23

OK DU has decided it doesn't like links today. You'll have to find them on Wikipedia Egalitarian Thug Mar 2013 #22

The F-15 tag is for an old model, current cost is over $100mil sir pball Mar 2013 #24

"...that ensures the Raptor maintains air dominance against an ever advancing threat." Astrad Mar 2013 #9

There ISN'T one, Astrad, due largely to the statistics listed in the post above yours. Volaris Mar 2013 #10

Ostensibly the latest Russian fighters sir pball Mar 2013 #18

Well, this is fun! The CEO of Lockheed made over $17,000,000 in 2011 A HERETIC I AM Mar 2013 #17

+1 xchrom Mar 2013 #19

As of 1 Jan Marilyn Hewson is CEO of Lockheed Martin. n/t tammywammy Mar 2013 #26

Nice job entitlement program ya got going there LockNEED assholes. L0oniX Mar 2013 #20

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