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2024-05-29 Science & Technology

Delays for Pentagon's most expensive weapon system getting worse, at $200 billion over budget

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 IDF is using unmanned M113s in Gaza - report

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-05-29 01:24|| 2024-05-29 01:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Military aircraft crashes at Albuquerque airport in New Mexico

Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-29 05:24|| 2024-05-29 05:24|| Front Page Top

#3 ...The trillion-dollar whoopsie.

And we lost another one yesterday; fortunately the pilot got out.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-05-29 06:19|| 2024-05-29 06:19|| Front Page Top

#4

An F-35B enroute from Fort Worth, Texas, to Edwards Air Force Base, California, crashed after a refueling stop at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. The pilot safely ejected. Safety is our priority, and we will follow appropriate investigation protocol. - Lindsay Wilson, Lockheed Martin - cite.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-05-29 06:41|| 2024-05-29 06:41|| Front Page Top

#5 unmanned M113s

'Beware of booby-trapped robotic tanks': Unmanned vehicles in Rafah sparks Palestinian imagination

Wasn't that happening in the Ukraine?

Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-29 06:51|| 2024-05-29 06:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Columbia class SSBN and Sentinel ICBM programs are also behind schedule.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-29 07:10|| 2024-05-29 07:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Musk needs to be put in charge of DoD contracting. Lockheed Martin and the MIC would go into immediate coronary arrest.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-29 07:14|| 2024-05-29 07:14|| Front Page Top

#8 The whole "Wonder Weapons" feel to our outrageously expensive defense hardware reminds me of the quote often attributed to Stalin. "Quantity has it's own form of quality." The MIC wants to sell next-gen Maseratti's for every weapons need when most of the time, a good, solid Ford F150 fits the needs for the next land war, perhaps far closer to home than anyone used to imagine?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-05-29 18:43|| 2024-05-29 18:43|| Front Page Top

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