“All we know is that there will be 50 airplane builds this year, and there were supposed to be 118 airplanes built this year,” Smith said. “The ramp-up just hasn’t been there. In terms of future employees, it's probably about 20 people that we won’t need but that we’ve been planning on. Until the business is up, nothing is for sure.”
There will be thousands built. It will be affordable. It is on PowerPoint, it must be true.
Business suffers. Employment suffers. Real people suffer.
Death by over-optimism, faith and listening to charlatans.
(2003 briefing)
I'm shocked that industry would be at risk since we had such top analysis down-under:
The decision to invest was bold and would carry the RAAF into the future, enabling it to dominate Australia's air and sea approaches, he said. The stealth aircraft was affordable because there were already so many, more than 3000, on the order books, said Air Marshal Houston.
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-SME's face the truth about F-35 industry work (or lack of it)
-F-35 Production Cut Update
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How ironic to think how Industry (and actual medium-term deterrence) would be better off today, if industry had alternatively been continually producing evolved F-15E+ and F-16 units, since the late 90's and for remainder of the decade. Lessons learned (hopefully) for the next-generation of acquisition process strategy and policy makers.
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