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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 9:51 am to UltimaParadox
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.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 10:01 am to DByrd2
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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.
Then you dont understand the computers and systems that go into these planes.
Nobody is building you a processor from the early 2000s anymore, there is no foundry left to build them.
You are not replacing the parts with modern ones either because they are smaller and require different power requirements.
Obsolescence is a never ending battle in highly complex systems such as planes.
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