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Home Front: Politix

Trump Wants Boeing To Be a Competitor to Lockheeds F-35

2016-12-23

President-elect Donald Trump upended years of Pentagon procurement planning with a tweet on Thursday, announcing he had asked Boeing Co. to price an upgrade of its F-18 Super Hornet jet that could replace Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F-35, the most expensive U.S. weapon system ever.

"Based on the tremendous cost and cost overruns of the Lockheed Martin F-35, I have asked Boeing to price-out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet!" Trump said Thursday in a post on Twitter.
Boeing agreed within the past 24 hours to cut the cost to Airforce One so it makes business sense to throw them another bone to chew on. Mr. Trump has saved more jobs and money so far as pres-elect than Obama in 8 years as pres (he actually doubled the debt.)

Posted by:Glains Bonaparte2390

#6 "I suspect Boeing is hoping for foreign sales"

I suspect Boeing, period, Dr. Steve.

Posted by: Barbara 2016-12-23 15:52

#5 Boeing has been pushing upgraded F-15, F-16 and F-18s to "generation 4.9" for a while. The idea is that while they can't be stealthy, they can have the near the same avionics and battle network management.

While Mr. Trump may be doing this just to hammer the price down on the F-35, and score points with his base (who think the plane is over-priced and under-performing), I suspect Boeing is hoping for foreign sales of the gen 4.9 aircraft.

Posted by: Steve White 2016-12-23 13:57

#4 Boeing F-15SE Silent Eagle
The Boeing F-15SE Silent Eagle is a proposed upgrade of the F-15E strike fighter by Boeing using stealth features...

Ya think?

Posted by: magpie 2016-12-23 12:02

#3 Or a stealthy update of the F-105.

Posted by: Shipman 2016-12-23 08:52

#2 Part of the problem is, the 'comparable' F-18 usually involves lies about range (and 20 years later, survivability as well).

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-12-23 08:21

#1 It used to be the military set specs for what they wanted. The contractors built a prototype and tested them all against each other and then a winner was chosen. A price was agreed on and if the project ran over the projected cost, the contractor ate it.

Just handing out contracts to businesses that ~~bribe~~ give the best donations is how we get in this mess.

Posted by: DarthVader 2016-12-23 08:12

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