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2019-06-11 Government

Pentagon Gets 8.8% Discount In $34 Billion F-35 Jet Deal

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Posted by trailing wife 2019-06-11 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top

#1 What a load of crap.
So they pruned out the $8m cost of an electronics package that wasn't ready yet (didn't work?) that will be sold later as a more expensive upgrade.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-06-11 07:31|| 2019-06-11 07:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Skidmark, that will be a someone else problem.

Posted by BernardZ 2019-06-11 07:55|| 2019-06-11 07:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Would you care to enlighten us about the electronics packages that don't work?

BTW, $80 million is near the price of modern F-16 but much more capable and survivable.

Posted by Sneager Hatfield9655 2019-06-11 13:03|| 2019-06-11 13:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Watched the Smithsonian 'Untold Story of the Skunk Works;' If Kelly Johnson were alive today to see how cumbersome the company has become, he'd be rolling over in his grave.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2019-06-11 14:32|| 2019-06-11 14:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Would you care to enlighten us about the electronics packages that don't work?

Check the DMS being moved to the B-2.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-06-11 18:33|| 2019-06-11 18:33|| Front Page Top

#6 If the B-2's DMS is evolved from the the F-35's AN/ASQ-239 electronic warfare suite then that is an endorsement of the of F-35. One would expect our premier strategic bomber to have the best EW available. Other than being a much more advanced EW suite than what the B-2 currently has, it will also allow the B-2 covertly transmit, something that it can't do w/ Link16 w/o being detected.

Posted by Sneager Hatfield9655 2019-06-11 20:50|| 2019-06-11 20:50|| Front Page Top

#7 As BZ said,...easier to support transition to another airframe than delay certification and sales of the F35.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-06-11 21:53|| 2019-06-11 21:53|| Front Page Top

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