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2005-02-14 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by Steve 2005-02-14 11:08:35 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The stealth program took up over a decade and tens of billions of dollars - and all it did was enable the Air Force to bomb (or nuke) enemy cities with impunity - a functional we already had via ballistic missiles and submarine- or ship-launched cruise missiles. Given that the point of this project is to prevent tens of millions of our people from being incinerated, it is worth quite a bit more than tens of billions of dollars to get it right.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-02-14 11:35:32 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-02-14 11:35:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the system. Like all other complex systems, it has lots of teething problems that need to be worked out.

AMRAAM was nearly cancelled in the mid-80s, as it looked like it would never work. The XB-17, XB-29, XP-38 (and maybe others) all crashed. The M-16 had a disastrous debut in 'Nam.

[I happen to work at a major sub-contractor for this thing, but I work on a different program.]

Posted by jackal 2005-02-14 2:02:43 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-02-14 2:02:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 What ever happened to the Air Defense System of the Seventies?

Posted by Shipman 2005-02-14 5:05:44 PM|| 2005-02-14 5:05:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Checked eBay?

Posted by .com 2005-02-14 5:10:50 PM|| 2005-02-14 5:10:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Ship, you must mean Hank Stram's Offense of the Seventies at Kansas City which I think lasted about a week and a half...

Posted by tu3031 2005-02-14 5:14:14 PM|| 2005-02-14 5:14:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Any test that detects a failure is a success.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-02-14 5:24:51 PM|| 2005-02-14 5:24:51 PM|| Front Page Top

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