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spazsinbad
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 Posted: Jan 05, 2012 - 10:42 PM
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Score One For The Bomber Team by Bill Sweetman at 1/5/2012
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/de ... d=blogDest
Best to read the PDF below probably:
http://www.aviationweek.com/media/pdf/D ... idance.pdf (6Mb)
"...Reuters reports that the Pentagon will slide 120 JSFs out of the FY2013-17 buy years. This matches the Quick Look Review team's recommendation to hold off on rate increases until testing has reduced the risk of expensive-to-fix problems showing up. However, the cuts raise concerns in the UK about the cost and timing of the F-35C version, according to UK secretary of defense Philip Hammond - whose first official visit to DC coincided with the cuts.
"We're already under some pressure from public opinion in the UK over the fact that we are going to have built and launched carriers some years before we have aircraft to fly off them," Hammond told an Atlantic Council forum. "It's really a caricaturist's dream, isn't it? So the prospect of further delays to the carrier variant would be of concern to us."... |
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spazsinbad
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Posted: Jan 05, 2012 - 10:49 PM
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A Hammond (Organ?) quote: [UhOh - maybe time to go back to F-35Bs  ]
US defence cuts threaten UK defence strategy Thursday 05 January 2012
http://www.channel4.com/news/new-us-def ... s-uk-f-35s
"...Mr Hammond [new UK DefMin I believe?] said.
He urged that Europeans should not respond in a "fit of pique" to the change in strategy announced today, that will see the United States realign its military focus towards the Pacific region.
"Europeans have to respond to this change in American focus, not with a fit of pique but by pragmatic engagement, recognising that we have to work with Americans to get better value for money out of the defence spending that is available on both sides of the Atlantic." |
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thestealthfighterguy
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Posted: Jan 06, 2012 - 08:41 PM
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southernphantom
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Posted: Jan 06, 2012 - 09:56 PM
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| The question is, does he WANT that superiority?? I'm sorry, but he just doesn't seem to have much use for the military aside from ridiculous UN-sponsored expeditions into efpiwrogrihgoh-land to stop x civil war against x political group. |
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madrat
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Posted: Jan 07, 2012 - 03:49 AM
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| Ever since he's been president its been a death spiral for this country. If we hadn't done the emergency economic packages the country would have long since got over the sudden drop in consumer confidence. As far as I am concerned the economic drama is fictitious. The same nonsense is driving a wedge into the strategic health of the US military. Anyone else seeing a pattern here? Almost like the neo-establisment in charge is trying to break the system. |
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