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2014-01-22 Home Front: WoT

New Carrier Unlikely to Meet Aircraft Goals

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Posted by Steve White 2014-01-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Assign all the F-35s to it and you will have a lovely backdrop for photo-ops.....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-01-22 01:12|| 2014-01-22 01:12|| Front Page Top

#2 270 during a wartime surge

What is that? 3.5 sorties per aircraft? Doesn't seem like a healthy idea at all.

Posted by Shipman 2014-01-22 05:11|| 2014-01-22 05:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Just like in the Carter era: every new piece of equipment developped teething troubles. What a coincidence the same thing happens during Obama's presidency.

Posted by JFM 2014-01-22 06:44|| 2014-01-22 06:44|| Front Page Top

#4 already the most expensive warship ever built, is projected by the Navy to cost $12.8 billion in current dollars, 22 percent more than estimated five years ago.

Only 22% over? Seems blike Air Force contracts exceed estimates by lots more than that. Get with the program, Navy.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-01-22 12:32|| 2014-01-22 12:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Hagel's too foggy to draw a distinction between sortie generation and boomer generation.

Posted by KBK 2014-01-22 19:23|| 2014-01-22 19:23|| Front Page Top

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