{"id":176975,"date":"2020-02-02T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/02\/the-gang-that-cant-shoot-straight-buys-the-plane-that-cant-shoot-straight\/"},"modified":"2020-02-02T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T01:16:00","slug":"the-gang-that-cant-shoot-straight-buys-the-plane-that-cant-shoot-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/02\/the-gang-that-cant-shoot-straight-buys-the-plane-that-cant-shoot-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gang That Can&#8217;t Shoot Straight Buys the Plane That Can&#8217;t Shoot Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I am referring, of course, to the trillion dollar F-25 mistake jet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-01-30\/f-35-s-gun-that-can-t-shoot-straight-adds-to-its-roster-of-flaws\">whose cannon is wildly inaccurate, and puts cracks in the airframe<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Add a gun that can\u2019t shoot straight to the problems that dog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/LMT:US\">Lockheed Martin Corp.<\/a>\u2019s $428 billion F-35 program, including more than 800 software flaws.<\/p>\n<p>The 25mm gun on Air Force models of the Joint Strike Fighter has \u201cunacceptable\u201d accuracy in hitting ground targets and is mounted in housing that\u2019s cracking, the Pentagon\u2019s test office said in its latest assessment of the costliest U.S. weapons system.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The number of software deficiencies totaled 873 as of November, according to the report obtained by Bloomberg News in advance of its release as soon as Friday. That\u2019s down from 917 in September 2018, when the jet entered the intense combat testing required before full production, including 15 Category 1 items. What was to be a year of testing has now been extended another year until at least October. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the program office is working to fix deficiencies, new discoveries are still being made, resulting in only a minor decrease in the overall number\u201d and leaving \u201cmany significant\u2018\u2019 ones to address, the assessment said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This procurement program really is a complete cluster-f%$#.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am referring, of course, to the trillion dollar F-25 mistake jet, whose cannon is wildly inaccurate, and puts cracks in the airframe: Add a gun that can\u2019t shoot straight to the problems that dog Lockheed Martin Corp.\u2019s $428 billion F-35 program, including more than 800 software flaws. The 25mm gun on Air Force models &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[384,381,588,379],"class_list":["post-176975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aviation","tag-defense-procurement","tag-fail","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}