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The Pentagon to spend $770 billion on aircraft in the next 10 years

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The Pentagon plans to spend $770 billion on aircraft purchases, operations, maintenance and construction between fiscal 2013 and fiscal 2022, according to a report on the military’s 30-year aviation blueprint. (www.aviationweek.com) Más...

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JJ7
JJ Johnson 3
Will they build them in Korea or China or India or Toulouse? We are too busy here in America building Wal-Mart's that sell Chinese junk.
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dackman
dackman 2
Need to do something! That is a better use of our tax money than helping out some country that doesn't like us. I work at the boneyard in Tucson and see everyday the shape of our retired war fighters.
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alistairm
alistairm 0
what country does not like you?
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THRUSTT
THRUSTT 1
They all love the Benjamins!!!
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MANBOI
MANBOI 1
Hopefully some of them will be made in America.
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sparkie624
sparkie624 1
Hope obama doesn't find out!
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WALLACE24
WALLACE24 1
Why? Money means nothing to him since he found out all you got to do is print more or borrow from china. Wheee, wheeee, wheeee!!!!
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WALLACE24
WALLACE24 1
It's just government people talking out their ass trying to get their budget increased.
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R123154
RICK HUGHES 1
One could also look at the delays and cost over runs with the F-35.Canada and Great Britain are starting to have deep concerns over their part in this costly program and especially the British since their new carriers are to be designed in large part around the F-35.Just hope the program works out.
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rick737
richard weiss 0
This makes more sense than spending millions to build mosques in countries that want to kill us.
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rick737
richard weiss 1
check out www.reagancoalition.com
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chalet
chalet 0
What a waste of hard earned money. The military have no idea what it is like to earn money in the real world, they only know how to spend like say..... a drunken sailor.
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R123154
RICK HUGHES 1
Chalet , more than anything I hate to disagree and respect your view, but don't we pay them to find the best possible options to defend our country.I agree with the over spending part for sure just look at the F-35 program.There definetly needs to be an over seer for each branch of the military that looks at and questions ever change in the original design proposal that was approved in the acceptance process.
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chalet
chalet 1
It is not only the F-35, it is virtually every major weapon system that was not delivered on time but the costs went up like a rocket. Just recently Aviaton Week run an article about Northrop Grumann Global Hawk UAV being sent to rot at some warehouse because "it did not meet the guaranteed specs" Cost: $ 3 BILLION down the gutter. Chose anything my dear friend, anything and the odor is horrible, and this has been going on for decades. The military have brought us to our knees holding us for ransom with countless cries of Wolf-Wolf! citing the always fearsome warning that "The communistas are coming"; well the didn't and then changed the tune, never short of "ideas" with the totally unethical posture of the Major Merchants of Dead (major defense contractors) who are happy to oblige. We and the Soviet Union manufactured weapons capable to make the entire world disappear in seconds 12 TIMES OVER. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, our nation al debt means every citizen down to the child that was born 10 seconds ago owe $ 46,000 and counting. When is this going to get paid. Seems like NEVER.
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R123154
RICK HUGHES 1
Right on.That's why there needs to be someone that finally puts a stop to this.I would be glad to pay their salary to see this stops, But problem is the pay scales and outrageous amount of advisiors
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zennermd
zennermd 3
You guys do know that almost every major technological advance in this country came from the military. Medicine, aircraft, and the internet that we love so much, and guess what, most of them were way over budget. The once that went over budget were only under budget because they raised the spending limit. The F-35 may be over budget, but once completed the cost to maintain should be cheaper since there will not be individual service stations for each branch of the military, because every branch will have a similar variant of the same plane. You all have to remember that science does not come cheap, and as a scientist and pilot I have seen this first hand. If you want the best, of anything, you have to spend to get the best. We are still the only country with stealth technology and it wasn't cheap, but look at how many lives it has saved, just ask our troops. Yes there are things we are wasting our money on, that is unavoidable, but you must also look at all the good things as well.
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chalet
chalet 1
If you don't work for Lockheed ............... I will be damned. If you hire a contractor to build your house for say 300K and a few months later when it is half finished he asks for a 50% (fifty) price increase and before completion another 50% so by the time you move in your are setback by a more than double the original price, what would you do applaud him and make the check.
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WALLACE24
WALLACE24 1
So the bid process serves exactly what purpose ??????
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zennermd
zennermd 1
So you are telling me you could build a house that has never been built before, with technology that has never been implemented/invented before, and you could do it within budget? You are comparing apples and oranges. A house that you are talking about has a blueprint with known challenges that has been built thousands of times, and even if that specific house has been built before, all the components and basic design are the same to every house. Let's take the F-22 for example. The F-22 has super cruise, the ability to supersonic without afterburners. I'm pretty sure they didn't have one of those engines lying in the back storage room, no, they had to invent one. Now do that for almost every component and tell me you can to it within budget. R&D is extremely expensive. And no, I do not work for Lockheed; I personally don't like the F-35.
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chalet
chalet 1
The problem is that the military never seem to know what is it exactly what they wanted in new fighter like the F-35 or the (thank God cancelled) new Marine One presidential helicopter (another Lockheed thing by the way) and everything else so after a contract is signed they start asking for more whistles and bells and the contractors happily oblige and this sends the final price skyrocketing to the moon. It has been widely reported that not a single program is completed at the original price or the original schedule. If the U.S. would still be a rich country -no 15 trillion debt, no budget deficits, no real estate/banking bubble- then perhaps we could spend more in new military weaponry but the bitter truth is the opposite and the damn military can't understand this, they want a new very expensive toy every year and damn the cost.
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zennermd
zennermd 1
Isn't that congress's fault for being so short sighted? Their the ones that control the money. They like to spend now and worry about it later. It has also been fun discussing this with you chalet.
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chalet
chalet 1
Both Congress and the military share the blame. Numerous projects were pushed by congress even though the military said that they did not need them, come to mind the extra C-17 and C-130J rammed down by congress. Great planes by any measure but an almost 2 billion expenditure not justified.
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USAFcptnShades
USAFcptnShades 1
Bravo!
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