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2019-04-09 The Grand Turk
What idiot let Turkey make 7 percent of the parts in an F-35?
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Posted by 3dc 2019-04-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ]  Top
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#1 The same idiots who have adversaries make our life-saving drugs maybe?
Posted by gorb 2019-04-09 02:05||   2019-04-09 02:05|| Front Page Top

#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||   2019-04-09 07:27|| Front Page Top

#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||   2019-04-09 07:39|| Front Page Top

#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||   2019-04-09 08:16|| Front Page Top

#5 From what I understand of the military procurement process, bribing Congressmen getting stakeholder buy-in by having some of the production done in their jurisdiction is a common practice.
Posted by SteveS 2019-04-09 08:49||   2019-04-09 08:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Starting with the F-104 this has been a well established bribe, *ahem*, inducement to get other countries to adopt our plane. The F-16 Program was also sold in the same manner.
Posted by magpie 2019-04-09 10:16||   2019-04-09 10:16|| Front Page Top

#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||   2019-04-09 12:18|| Front Page Top

#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||   2019-04-09 13:22|| Front Page Top

#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||   2019-04-09 14:01|| Front Page Top

#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||   2019-04-09 14:32|| Front Page Top

#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||   2019-04-09 17:05|| Front Page Top

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