F-35 Program Achieves Full Rate Production
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F-35 Program Achieves Full Rate Production
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Re: F-35 Program Achieves Full Rate Production
#2> “Earlier today, the Milestone Decision Authority, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Dr. William A. LaPlante, approved the Milestone C / Full Rate Production (MSC/FRP) of the F-35 Lightning II aircraft with the signing of an Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM) after a meeting with the Defense Acquisition Board (DAB).”
The language could very well be from some dark humor novel making fun of three letter acronyms. Definitely reminds me parts of Catch-22.
Re: F-35 Program Achieves Full Rate Production
#3> “Earlier today, the Milestone Decision Authority, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Dr. William A. LaPlante, approved the Milestone C / Full Rate Production (MSC/FRP) of the F-35 Lightning II aircraft with the signing of an Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM) after a meeting with the Defense Acquisition Board (DAB).” The language could very well be from some dark humor novel making fun o…
Hey at least they expand the acronyms!
Re: F-35 Program Achieves Full Rate Production
#4> “Earlier today, the Milestone Decision Authority, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Dr. William A. LaPlante, approved the Milestone C / Full Rate Production (MSC/FRP) of the F-35 Lightning II aircraft with the signing of an Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM) after a meeting with the Defense Acquisition Board (DAB).” The language could very well be from some dark humor novel making fun o…
The Department of Defense (DoD) is, amusingly, Just Like That (JLT).
Re: F-35 Program Achieves Full Rate Production
#5> “Earlier today, the Milestone Decision Authority, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Dr. William A. LaPlante, approved the Milestone C / Full Rate Production (MSC/FRP) of the F-35 Lightning II aircraft with the signing of an Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM) after a meeting with the Defense Acquisition Board (DAB).” The language could very well be from some dark humor novel making fun o…
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Re: F-35 Program Achieves Full Rate Production
#6> “Earlier today, the Milestone Decision Authority, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Dr. William A. LaPlante, approved the Milestone C / Full Rate Production (MSC/FRP) of the F-35 Lightning II aircraft with the signing of an Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM) after a meeting with the Defense Acquisition Board (DAB).” The language could very well be from some dark humor novel making fun o…
DHN MFO TLA?
* dark humor novel making fun of three letter acronyms
Re: F-35 Program Achieves Full Rate Production
#7The F-35 first flew in late 2006, and they've debugged it enough to get it into full production...17 years later.
In the private sector, you'd no longer be able to buy the components it's built out of.
Ridiculous.
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#8It is wild that they’ve turned this project around from the avatar of wasteful defense spending, to the jet that everybody wants.
Re: F-35 Program Achieves Full Rate Production
#9I love to admire war machines on "hacker" "news" it is such an important part of our site's culture. Technology is always morally neutral, of course, even (or especially?) if it is explicitly designed to cause death and misery.
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#10https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/jet-fighter-costs-a-comple...
In 20 years they'll manufacture just one plane, and it'll cost a trillion dollars, if current trends continue to hold.
Also it'll the weight of an aircraft carrier.