M&S
So.... The U.S. taxpayer gets soaked for a buy that is at some realistic 'development plus retrofit' price, north of 90 million PAUC like Santa's Shop is north of the equator.
And then the government hands out 450 of them to countries which just so happen to have place in queue privilege for an 'early bird incentive buy program' Tierage so that the program doesn't collapse waiting for price stability in the out-years like the F-20 did, expecting lead customers that never showed up.
All this on a total U.S. production run that is at least 2/3rds larger than it needs to be for a _specialist FNOW interdictor designed to SEAD the high-hard defenses_ so that Day-1 can be done in F-teens against the residue of lightweights, all of which are killable with AARGM or floorable with altitude and speed.
Clever.
Unless you happen to also be paying for 31,000 dollars per flight hour of maintenance and/or an American citizen stuck with military welfare payments to the tune of 16 billion a year for the next decade and a half to recapitalize a military airpower that will be inoperable in a joint environment (three planes, three landing modes, no inventory share = critical vulnerability to attrition) and obsolescent against all threats at service entry.
Or you expect the USD to collapse within the next two years and with it, the ability of U.S. MIB sources to provide logistics support becomes, cough, 'R3' (Rather Russian in Reliability).
I think Bruce Willis said it best.
We need a new government and a new military to go with it.
And then the government hands out 450 of them to countries which just so happen to have place in queue privilege for an 'early bird incentive buy program' Tierage so that the program doesn't collapse waiting for price stability in the out-years like the F-20 did, expecting lead customers that never showed up.
All this on a total U.S. production run that is at least 2/3rds larger than it needs to be for a _specialist FNOW interdictor designed to SEAD the high-hard defenses_ so that Day-1 can be done in F-teens against the residue of lightweights, all of which are killable with AARGM or floorable with altitude and speed.
Clever.
Unless you happen to also be paying for 31,000 dollars per flight hour of maintenance and/or an American citizen stuck with military welfare payments to the tune of 16 billion a year for the next decade and a half to recapitalize a military airpower that will be inoperable in a joint environment (three planes, three landing modes, no inventory share = critical vulnerability to attrition) and obsolescent against all threats at service entry.
Or you expect the USD to collapse within the next two years and with it, the ability of U.S. MIB sources to provide logistics support becomes, cough, 'R3' (Rather Russian in Reliability).
I think Bruce Willis said it best.
We need a new government and a new military to go with it.
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Gail Wallens:
Author of "Hostage Terrorist, Terrorist Hostage: A study in duality." Dr. Hasseldorf, what can we expect in the next few hours?
Author of "Hostage Terrorist, Terrorist Hostage: A study in duality." Dr. Hasseldorf, what can we expect in the next few hours?
Dr. Hasseldorf:
Well, Gail, by this time the hostages will be going through the early stages of the Helsinki Syndrome.
Well, Gail, by this time the hostages will be going through the early stages of the Helsinki Syndrome.
Harvey Johnson:
As in Helsinki, Sweden.
As in Helsinki, Sweden.
Dr. Hasseldorf:
Finland.
Finland.
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