Donald Trump: What We (military) Have Is Incredible!

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Trump touts secret new weapon: ‘What we have is incredible’ – Orange County Register

In the past week someone must have taken Donald Trump--stable genius-- behind the woodshed for a whupping with a fraternity paddle. Miraculously, days after he shot-off his mouth about his dislike of endless wars, even paraphrasing Eisenhower's famous military industrial complex speech of 1961, Trump has made a one-eighty and become a virtual used car salesman for the nation's biggest defense contractors. Too bad he hasn't the foggiest notion what anything is used for. "It's clear that the president likes to boast about military capabilities and doesn't have the tightest grip on the details."

Arguably topping that list is the long-troubled Lockheed F-35. The Trump administration gave a bundle of F-35s fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates in-return for recognizing and playing nice with Israel. Somewhere along the way, slick talking aircraft spokesmen from Lockheed have managed to fill Trump's head with Star Trek-like fantasies about this "clusterf**k" that has taken decades to produce. Arguably the best interview on how an aerial thoroughbred stallion (on paper) turned into a camel designed by committee was given by no-other than the chief designer of the F-16, Pierre Sprey. (see below) Just don't tell Donald Trump.

Donald Trump:"You can't see it. You literally can't see it. It's hard to fight a plane you can't see."

As Pierre Sprey colorfully explains, aircraft invisibility is largely a ruse. Only one person in America-- occupying the Oval Office-- believes it to be a Romulan Cloaking Device. In 1999 during NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, a then highly-vaunted F-117 Nighthawk was shot-down using WW-II era radar (radio detection and ranging) equipment and obsolete missiles. In 2018 at the Berlin Air Show, embarrassed Lockheed officials kept the F-35 only on static display after the Germans gleefully said they had tracked the F-35s flying over for the airshow for hundreds of miles. Those darn Germans are smart.

The Designer Of The F-16 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is - Digg

 
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US Air Force restricts KC-46 from carrying cargo and passengers

And there's more! :cold_sweat:

KC-46 refueling system flaws will take years to fix and cost hundreds of millions, GAO says

And it leaks fuel. How could Boeing possibly screw-up essentially the simple design process of mating a short-body -200 fuselage to a -300 wing off their venerable forty-year-old Boeing 767 Wagon Queen Family Truckster, then sticking a refueling boom on its ass? Very easily since we're not talking about your grandfather's Boeing.Today nothing comes with assured, straightforward precision to the company William E. Boeing founded in 1916.

The Air Force came to Washington in 2006 and told lawmakers they needed a new aerial gas station to replace the 1950s era KC-135. So in 2007 a competitive bidding was put-out for new air tankers. And two airframe manufacturers-- Boeing and Northrop-- answered the call. Boeing did what they have been doing for half a century. They took an old jalopy off the shelf, repainted it battle ship gray and called it a brand new airplane! Meanwhile over in Falls Church, Virginia, Northrop didn't actually even have an airplane to offer. However, by using political sleight-of-hand wizardry they brought to the competition a state-of-the art European Airbus A330-200 that they called the EADS KC-45. It was larger, faster, longer-ranged and with much more refueling capacity. Moreover it had latest fly-by-wire technology and glass cockpit computerization gizmos that give military pilots hard-ons. Naturally, the A330 kicked Boeing's butt from Toulouse all the way back to Seattle.

Boeing wailed and cried via their Washington lobbyists that it wasn't fair. They lost the aerial refueling phallic competition because the Europeans brought a bigger (better) cock to the contest. So our lawmakers dried Boeing's tears, collaborated with some good ol' Air Force buddies, and together they went into a smoke-filled room and rewrote the bidding specifications. Behold, a brand new bidding process with new specifications! Instead of state-of-the-art monster meat, the Air Force now wanted a cute little mini-cock airplane that would fit in the same parking place as the ancient KC-135. What a shock, Boeing won round two of the competition.

All they had to do was make the damn airplane. A decade-and-a-half later they are still trying to succeed in that elusive quest.



 
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