$16 National Debt
$1.2 Trillion Debt Reduction postponed because of military sequester!
January 02, 2013 3:32 PM
by LARRY ABRAMSON
$1.2 Trillion Debt Reduction postponed because of military sequester!
January 02, 2013 3:32 PM
by LARRY ABRAMSON
At $130 Million A Plane, Critics Question The Cost Of The F-35 (click here)
...But many budget hawks and defense geeks say the problem is that this plane just keeps getting more expensive. Right now, the cost of the Air Force version is nearly $130 million a plane. The Marine version, which flies like a jet but can land like a helicopter, is more than $160 million....
Volume Discount, it must be K-Mart. I don't think so. If we only need 2 then the USA only orders 2. Volume discounts of military hardware is exploitation and abuse of power of the USA Treasury, hence the people.
...But to keep the price of this new plane down, Lockheed has to sell a lot of them — about 3,000. The military will get a volume discount. But right now, it's paying a high price....
A multi-tasking bomber. This is a joke right? A computer controlled bomber? Where are the Chinese hackers? This jet is worthless!
...F-35 critics say the basic concept was faulty from the start. This one plane is supposed to do the jobs of as many as 10 older airframes. Wheeler says the F-35 is stretched between too many tasks....
Ya think? Cancel the contracts, the jets are worthless to our national security. Fix the jets we already have. We don't need these monstrosities! The F35 is a nightmare. We are already maintaining our current jets while this program spins its wheels. Build more F15s. We don't need this mess, it will never result in any worthwhile national defense. The Chinese hackers are probably already into prototypes and that is one of the reasons this jet cannot get off the runway!
...the F-35 proved to be neither cheap nor adaptable. It is now the most costly weapons program in history. The Pentagon is projected to spend $396 billion on nearly 2,500 planes, but that price should rise further with fewer foreign purchasers to share in the development costs. Britain, Italy, Australia, and the Netherlands have all revised or backed out of their plans to buy the planes....
Ya think? Cancel the contracts, the jets are worthless to our national security. Fix the jets we already have. We don't need these monstrosities! The F35 is a nightmare. We are already maintaining our current jets while this program spins its wheels. Build more F15s. We don't need this mess, it will never result in any worthwhile national defense. The Chinese hackers are probably already into prototypes and that is one of the reasons this jet cannot get off the runway!
Cost overruns on the F-35 jet should prompt reassessment (click here)
JANUARY 02, 2013
...The cost overruns were simply too much for conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper to defend after an independent auditor put the combined purchase and maintenance price of the order at $46 billion over the 42-year life of the project; in 2010, the Canadian government put the cost of the purchase alone at $9 billion....
The cost overruns already exist, research partners have already ended their interest in the development of the jet. There are more than plenty of reasons to end the contract and assess the jets we have and any we may need to replace with a jet fighter independent of computers! We don't need the space shuttle with bombs.
The cost overruns already exist, research partners have already ended their interest in the development of the jet. There are more than plenty of reasons to end the contract and assess the jets we have and any we may need to replace with a jet fighter independent of computers! We don't need the space shuttle with bombs.
...the F-35 proved to be neither cheap nor adaptable. It is now the most costly weapons program in history. The Pentagon is projected to spend $396 billion on nearly 2,500 planes, but that price should rise further with fewer foreign purchasers to share in the development costs. Britain, Italy, Australia, and the Netherlands have all revised or backed out of their plans to buy the planes....
