Lockheed Martin and Raytheon prepare big production changes to adjust to America's dispute with Turkey over a Russian missile deal.Navy Vice Adm. Mat Winter said,.. that Turkey produces approximately 7 percent of the jet's parts.
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| The Grand Turk |
| What idiot let Turkey make 7 percent of the parts in an F-35? |
| 2019-04-09 |
| [CNBC] Lockheed Martin and Raytheon prepare big production changes to adjust to America's dispute with Turkey over a Russian missile deal. Navy Vice Adm. Mat Winter said,.. that Turkey produces approximately 7 percent of the jet's parts. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #11 SPoD I heard that line almost 50 years ago attributed to Gus Grissom who when asked what it felt like waiting for lift off said to the reporter something like "How would you like to be sitting on a large bomb where all of the 100,000 parts had been let to the lowest bidder? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2019-04-09 17:05 |
| #10 "What idiot let Turkey make 7 percent of the parts in an F-35" Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has been strategically supporting the F-35 Program since 2008. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-04-09 14:32 |
| #9 We were told, at Fort Rucker, that a Huey was 500,000 parts made by the low bidder looking for a place to crash. Do you suppose we should apply that to all of our flying iPhone Fifth Generation fighter aircraft? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2019-04-09 14:01 |
| #8 Defense contractors really need to consider copying SpaceX and go for vertical integration of development. Even to go so far as one instance of counterfeit screws and start manufacturing your own screws. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2019-04-09 13:22 |
| #7 F-35 partners bid on contracts. The lowest cost qualified bidder wins the contract. |
| Posted by: Cretle Big Foot4791 2019-04-09 12:18 |
| #6 Starting with the F-104 this has been a well established |
| Posted by: magpie 2019-04-09 10:16 |
| #5 From what I understand of the military procurement process, |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-04-09 08:49 |
| #4 "What idiot let Turkey make 7 percent of the parts in an F-35" First guess: a Mister O. Bumble? |
| Posted by: Wheans Bluetooth3500 2019-04-09 08:16 |
| #3 Evidently Mike Flynn's Fethullah Gulen plan fell flat. Difficult to imagine what might have happened. MAIL 25 Mar 2017 - Michael Flynn 'discussed plan to snatch exiled dissident Turkish cleric suspected of being behind attempted coup from his rural US home and return him to the Mid East' |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-04-09 07:39 |
| #2 Here, you manufacture these F-35 brake assemblies and we'll keep our man Fethullah Gulen. Now please just STFU. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-04-09 07:27 |
| #1 The same idiots who have adversaries make our life-saving drugs maybe? |
| Posted by: gorb 2019-04-09 02:05 |