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I think the Army works significantly better. Obviously still wildly wasteful, but they've been under pressure to deliver results for a decade, and actually ope
by bpodgursky 7y ago
I think the Army works significantly better. Obviously still wildly wasteful, but they've been under pressure to deliver results for a decade, and actually operate in a war theater, so they actually have processes to get things done, given sufficient money thrown into the hole.
The Air Force is a huge can of failure with the F35. At least they're standing by the goals of having a reasonable number of combat-worthy planes ready to fly, but the refusal to play ground-support roles and use light-combat airframes sets them up to be replaced by an army-run drone program within a few decades.
The Navy, though, hasn't had to do anything more useful than stop Somali pirates for two decades. It shows.
- whatshisface 7y agoThe Air Force didn't design or manufacture the F35.
- PostOnce 7y agoThey didn't go the airplane store and pick one off the shelf either though... Lockheed gets something like 90% of its revenue from the federal government. They're effectively an arm of the Air Force. Besides, it's not like the Air Force did no design at all, they came up with a list of wants and needs, had prototypes made by two contractors, refined their requirements after selecting one of the two competing prototypes, etc...