Thursday, February 20, 2014

U.S. military jet 2013 Ponzi scheme targets Canada

With the DOD 2013 DOTE report out, we can see that the F-35 program has made little progress toward delivering a credible weapon system.

This report, delivered last month to Congress, is a summary of F-35 program progress for 2013.

12 years after contract award, many systems just do not work. Other systems are 50 percent done in development with dubious progress.

What was the F-35 sales force telling Canada in July of 2013?

To be kind, complete nonsense.

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---Fantasy numbers

---There is no credible proof of a 700 mile radius.

---None of these sensors actually work in a credible fashion.

---2013 DOTE paints software in a much different light.

---In 2003, LRIP-5 was 120 jets. LRIP-6? 168.

What are the laws in Canada for a vendor that misleads the government?


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-Time's Battleland - 5 Part series on F-35 procurement - 2013 
-Summary of Air Power Australia F-35 points
-Aviation Week (ARES blog) F-35 posts (2007 to present)
-U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) F-35 reports
-F-35 JSF: Cold War Anachronism Without a Mission
-History of F-35 Production Cuts
-Looking at the three Japan contenders (maneuverability)
-How the Canadian DND misleads the public about the F-35
-Value of STOVL F-35B over-hyped
-Cuckoo in the nest--U.S. DOD DOT&E F-35 report is out
-6 Feb 2012 Letter from SASC to DOD boss Panetta questioning the decision to lift probation on the F-35B STOVL.
-USAFs F-35 procurement plan is not believable
-December 2011 Australia/Canada Brief
-F-35 Key Performance Perimeters (KPP) and Feb 2012 CRS report
-F-35 DOD Select Acquisition Report (SAR) FY2012
-Release of F-35 2012 test report card shows continued waste on a dud program
-Australian Defence answers serious F-35 project concerns with "so what?"
-Land of the Lost (production cut history update March 2013)
-Outgoing LM F-35 program boss admits to flawed weight assumptions (March 2013)
-A look at the F-35 program's astro-turfing
-F-35 and F-16 cost per flying hour
-Is this aircraft worth over $51B of USMC tac-air funding?
-Combat radius and altitude, A model
-F-35A, noise abatement and airfields and the USAF
-Deceptive marketing practice: F-35 blocks
-The concurrency fraud
-The dung beetle's "it's known" lie


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