permafrost Loc: Minnesota

As if we do not spend enough money, we should at least get worthwhile results for our billions of $$$

From The Fiscal Times...

The F-35 Can’t Shoot Straight: Report
The gun on the most common version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is so inaccurate that its performance was deemed “unacceptable” in recent Pentagon tests, according to a report Thursday from Bloomberg’s Anthony Capaccio.

Accuracy isn’t the only problem for the 25mm canon on the Air Force version of the jet. The gun housing on the aircraft manufactured by Lockheed Martin is cracking, too, forcing the Air Force to restrict its use. (The less common Navy and Marine variants use a different type of gun mount, and those jets have received “acceptable” ratings for accuracy.)

The $428 billion F-35 program, whose total cost will exceed $1 trillion over its lifetime, still has more than 800 unresolved issues, many related to its troubled operating system, Capaccio said, based on the latest assessment from the Pentagon’s test office. Those issues include 13 “Category 1” problems that could affect safety or combat capability, and that the Defense Department says should be fixed before the manufacturer commences the next phase of production, which has a price tag of $22 billion.

The F-35 has also failed to pass what’s being called the Mattis Test, after former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, which calls for the jet to be available 80% of the time for at least one kind of combat mission. While some units have been able to meet the requirement for short periods, most have been unable to do so on a sustained basis. And the great majority of units have been unable to meet the more demanding goal of “Full Mission Capability.”

Wolf counselor Loc: Heart of Texas

You're trying hard to appear relevant today, ain't you Goober.

Too bad we already think of you as pointless and trivial.

Why don't you go to the park and feed the pigeons........Goober.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

you seem to be living the dream... dictated to you by the unthinking orange piece of dung you wish was the image in you mind rather then the reality of corruption and ineptness he truly is..

so, if it shoots, you do not care how much money we toss down the drain for it not working reality..

a little preemptive thinking would go a long way.. try it some time..

Wolf counselor Loc: Heart of Texas

You don't really give a damn about corruption or tossing taxpayer money down the drain.

You're infected with TDS and you're brain is stuck on stupid.

okie don

Note Perma hasn't commented what his favorite presidential candidate Joe Biden & his glorious son Hunter did in Ukraine.
l hear crickets. Lol 😁
zzzzzz

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Maybe this is why the Navy is getting new F-15s?

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

What a hypocrite... you support the orange thief, without qualification and yet you slam anyone else in the world for corruption.. what a bad joke you are on America... nothing but a ball less call from the hall of the orange robber of our nation..

You are near as bad as the non-Christians who claim the name and yet love to orange desperado..

Any right winger who accuses anyone else of corruption is only in a dream of deflection and has lost any and all reality they may have once encountered..

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Trump violated the law in order to promote himself and his own interests.

Biden and son did nothing in Ukraine that came close to being criminal.. nothing at all like what trump did..

How about a primer first?

Why did Hunter Biden become a director of Burisma, the Ukrainian national gas company?

Because someone offered him the job.

Why did they offer him a job that pays $50,000 per month yet comes with no responsibilities? Because they wanted to add “prestige” to the illustrious name of Burisma.

People who know nothing of business and read lots of right wing stuff somehow think there was something untoward in Hunter Biden taking the job. They say, “It smells of nepotism,” except that… Hunter Biden’s father had nothing to do with Burisma and didn’t get Hunter the job. So, nepotism is not the word that is applicable here.

Do companies often hire well known and famous people to be non executive directors?

Why, yes. In fact, George HW Bush was a director of Carlyle while Dick Cheney was a director at Halliburton. I think Colin Powell was a director, too.

Directors at companies rarely go to jail…. because they rarely have anything to do with anything criminal the company may have done. George W. Bush’s brother, Neil, was a director at Silverado Savings and Loan…. when it went under. There was talk, but no indictment.

So…it was neither illegal nor immoral for Hunter Biden to take the job, and Hunter Biden did nothing illegal or immoral as a director. Thus, Hunter Biden was not indicted by the Ukrainian government. If he had done something illegal or immoral, then, he would have had to have broken American law. But he didn’t, did he?

So, why is President Trump going after Hunter Biden? Because he wants to get Joe Biden, and having nothing on Joe Biden- he is going after his son.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

I did see a mention of that.. going to keep an eye out for that.. That way we would be rid of the trillion dollar mistake.. or at least bad airplanes..

roy

Well pera frost sorry you're fixing to get eat up by these idiots on opp they don't want to hear the truth,but the truth is exactly what you have posted.So hang on your going to get blasted by their statements,but remember they learned this from trump if you can't get your way then destroy ,destory.One to remember it's going to bite them in the ass soon.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

No, most conservatives and independents are fed up with government feeding on the tit of taxpayers with little to show and almost no say in it. Then the socialist wing of the Democratic Party keeps looking for new ways to spend money and new ways to tax us more to pay for it. Both parties suck! But the socialists just blow. However, you are partly right; the RINOs will probably be out in force if anyone is to be critical.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Perma, Have you heard or seen this?

The U.S. Army Is Testing a 'Guaranteed Hit' Smart Scope For Its Rifles
The SMASH scope won’t fire unless it thinks you're going to hit the target.

The U.S. Army is trialing a new fire control system for infantry guns.
The SMASH scope is designed to detect targets automatically.
SMASH will only fire when it projects the bullet will impact the target.
The U.S. Army is evaluating a scope that won’t let the user fire his or her rifle unless the shot is guaranteed. The SMASH scope is the product of Smart Shooter Ltd., an Israeli company, and could go on the Army’s upcoming replacements for the M4 carbine and M249 squad automatic weapon. The scope, or one like it, will eventually go on the Army's next generation squad automatic weapons.

Military.com tried out the SMASH system at the SHOT Show 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Smart Shooter teamed up with Sig Sauer to compete in the Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapon Fire Control program. NGSW-FC’s goal is to field a smart optic to go on the service’s Next-Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW). NGSW will choose a new 6.8-millimeter assault rifle and squad automatic weapon to replace the Army’s M4 carbine and M249 squad automatic weapon.

Current U.S. Army carbines and squad automatic weapons use a variety of red dot or other sights that project a reticle or crosshairs on target. The soldier must still line up the sights with the target while computing ballistic drop and the effects of wind on bullet flight. For example, a M855 bullet fired from a M4 carbine will impact 12.93 inches lower at a distance of 300 yards than at 0 yards. That’s gravity acting on the bullet, pulling it inexorably towards the earth. The same bullet fired from the same distance in a 12-mile-an-hour wind will shift 11 inches in the direction the wind is blowing.

All of this is a lot to compute, especially in combat. Fortunately the problem was solved in the 1970s when ballistic computers on main battle tanks became smart enough to automatically calculate this information. This revolutionized tank gun accuracy, making tanks accurate even on the move. Thanks to Moore’s Law, those computers have finally become small enough to mount on a rifle.

SMASH’s system incorporates night vision, magnification, and target detection and tracking. According to Military.com, the system uses a sight that clips above the barrel and a special pistol grip. Pressing a button next to the grip automatically detects possible targets, projecting red boxes around them in the sight’s field of view. The shooter then depresses the trigger and holds it down. The weapon will fire when the barrel is properly aligned with the target, causing a “guaranteed hit.” The auto tracker system can be disabled for other types of shooting.

The Army is testing a number of fire control systems as part of NGSW-FC, and plans to field the first new carbines and squad automatic weapons to combat units in 2023.

Source: Military.com

Lonewolf

What did they do so far you have come up with 0 nothing!
How about trump giveing our air strips and bases intact to Russia that's treason

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

Did you forget that Comey worked for Lockheed Martin? Seems he doesn't have the Midas touch and screws up everything he touches.

Roger jr