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re: Pentagon’s $1.7T F-35 jets have ‘maintenance issues,’ finish missions barely half the time
Posted on 9/22/23 at 9:43 am to Lawyered
Posted on 9/22/23 at 9:43 am to Lawyered
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Do we need f-35s?
With all our other aircraft we have ? Isn’t that enough already?
You realize aircraft need constant maintenance. And those older aircraft face constant obsolescence issues to keep them flying.
It just the nature of the business.
There are over 20 countries in the world waiting in line to basically pay whatever it costs to get the F-35. That should tell you the state of the rest of the world.
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Posted on 9/22/23 at 9:51 am to UltimaParadox
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It just the nature of the business.
Gotta disagree here in terms of obsolescence.
Obsolescence is largely coming from bad (and probably dirty) contracting practices in the government’s acquisition programs over the years.
Either awarding contracts for specialty equipment to small startups with no alternatives, or awarding them to large corporations as sole-source contracts that mean the corporation can sell “updates” to parts/software to the government as often as they can produce it, lining their pockets.
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