The COVID “stimulus package” spent 10% on actually giving Americans paycheck, and the remaining 90% goes to programs backed by DC politicians’ families, friends, and donors.
At this rate of government spending & money printing, we're soon going to be buying our bread with the new $1 million bill (after waiting in line first of course).
DOD contractor here. We are ripping you, the taxpayers off. The amount of hands and paperwork for each project/program, especially TRILLION dollar ones, eats up a lot of the money. Sorry.
Same applies to everywhere the government is involved in healthcare... and people want more government involvement.
Those people are literally retarded. Not just for the costs, but the wait times. The horrors my father could tell you about dealing with the VA, and the horrors I could tell you about stories I've heard from inside medicare/medicaid...
This article isn’t really telling the whole story. Most of the numbers are the kind of metrics interpretation a dickhead boss might use to deny you a bonus — they’re technically true but each misrepresents or neglects to mention key context that largely negates the straightforward-sounding ‘fact’ you would assume that the measurement is telling you (examples such as the costs not being averaged out over the entire life of the program, or using a military definition of ‘mission capable’ in a way that implies a layman’s understanding — your car might not be ‘mission capable’ if the interior cab light is out and the mission has a line about ‘capability to read maps at night’, but you can still drive it just fine).
There’s a thousand of these kind of piddling complaints about the F-35, and each of them turns into a nothingburger upon careful scrutiny. Articles like this get clicks by dogpiling them, but the F-35 is about average on costs and problems for a new groundbreaking plane, and unlike true military boondoggles (cough, littoral combat ship) the F-35 is a highly useful weapons platform and delivers effective combat capabilities that are heads and tails above other aircraft.
The short version is this: Even sandbox savages are running around with SAMs that can blast A10s right out of the air these days, and radars see a loaded F-16 coming so well we might as well launch a pilot recovery mission at the same time, if it’s against a peer adversary. The airframes don’t have the shape or space to add the new radars and stealth that the F-35 carries, so you can’t just ‘upgrayyed’, and the costs of interagency government waste is just as bad or worse to build a brand-new less advanced plane adapted to fit the new tech.
In fact, it’s very likely that this ‘4.5-gen’ plane is just that - a way to create a brand-new spending pit that can afford to cut 10% for the Big Guy mainly by not actually having to innovate anything new.
Your welcome for not having to read books full of military jargon and budget definitions to understand this better than Princess Kamel.
The plane is too small and feature too many untested technologies.
It suffocates the pilot.
It blinds the pilot.
It can't carry enough fuel for most missions.
It has barely any ammo or munitions space.
It breaks when it fires it's gun.
I don't know which is worse: that the F-35 is such a colossal boondoggle, or that it's still cheaper than any given COVID stimulus package.
The COVID “stimulus package” spent 10% on actually giving Americans paycheck, and the remaining 90% goes to programs backed by DC politicians’ families, friends, and donors.
Yep. In comparison, a similar sum spent on a mediocre jet that's only able to fly two-thirds of the time looks downright frugal.
At this rate of government spending & money printing, we're soon going to be buying our bread with the new $1 million bill (after waiting in line first of course).
Thanks OBiden.
lmfao! Like asking what's worse taking a baseball bat to the nads or drinking a cup of bleach.
The government doesn't need to make a profit............ so they got that going for them.
Maybe they need more women and poc
DOD contractor here. We are ripping you, the taxpayers off. The amount of hands and paperwork for each project/program, especially TRILLION dollar ones, eats up a lot of the money. Sorry.
Same applies to everywhere the government is involved in healthcare... and people want more government involvement.
Those people are literally retarded. Not just for the costs, but the wait times. The horrors my father could tell you about dealing with the VA, and the horrors I could tell you about stories I've heard from inside medicare/medicaid...
Nancy knows.
This article isn’t really telling the whole story. Most of the numbers are the kind of metrics interpretation a dickhead boss might use to deny you a bonus — they’re technically true but each misrepresents or neglects to mention key context that largely negates the straightforward-sounding ‘fact’ you would assume that the measurement is telling you (examples such as the costs not being averaged out over the entire life of the program, or using a military definition of ‘mission capable’ in a way that implies a layman’s understanding — your car might not be ‘mission capable’ if the interior cab light is out and the mission has a line about ‘capability to read maps at night’, but you can still drive it just fine).
There’s a thousand of these kind of piddling complaints about the F-35, and each of them turns into a nothingburger upon careful scrutiny. Articles like this get clicks by dogpiling them, but the F-35 is about average on costs and problems for a new groundbreaking plane, and unlike true military boondoggles (cough, littoral combat ship) the F-35 is a highly useful weapons platform and delivers effective combat capabilities that are heads and tails above other aircraft.
The short version is this: Even sandbox savages are running around with SAMs that can blast A10s right out of the air these days, and radars see a loaded F-16 coming so well we might as well launch a pilot recovery mission at the same time, if it’s against a peer adversary. The airframes don’t have the shape or space to add the new radars and stealth that the F-35 carries, so you can’t just ‘upgrayyed’, and the costs of interagency government waste is just as bad or worse to build a brand-new less advanced plane adapted to fit the new tech.
In fact, it’s very likely that this ‘4.5-gen’ plane is just that - a way to create a brand-new spending pit that can afford to cut 10% for the Big Guy mainly by not actually having to innovate anything new.
Your welcome for not having to read books full of military jargon and budget definitions to understand this better than Princess Kamel.
LOOK TO LOCKHEEDS BOARD! MIDDLE MGMT & LINE WORKERS GET THE DREGS
The plane is too small and feature too many untested technologies.
It suffocates the pilot. It blinds the pilot. It can't carry enough fuel for most missions. It has barely any ammo or munitions space. It breaks when it fires it's gun.