{"id":193047,"date":"2009-01-24T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/24\/jsf-breaks-nunn-mccurdy-limits\/"},"modified":"2009-01-24T06:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T11:37:00","slug":"jsf-breaks-nunn-mccurdy-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/24\/jsf-breaks-nunn-mccurdy-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"JSF Breaks Nunn-McCurdy Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which means that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Ae5215b3e-261d-4388-ab80-be6023503b57\">massively over budget<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They have finally gotten to the point where they cannot use accounting tricks to cover this up.<\/p>\n<p>I expect the unit cost to rise sharply now, and be near that of the F-22.<\/p>\n<p>A number of people have been predicting this, most notably the House Appropriations Committee, who have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-01-19&amp;section=Washington+Outlook&amp;headline=Inside+information+from+the+U2eS2e+capital&amp;rssid=123456789&amp;INTERCEPT_MESSAGES=S_LOGIN&amp;PRIOR_REQUEST_URL=%2Fpublication%2Fawst%2Floggedin%2FAvnowStoryDisplay.do%3FpubKey%3Dawst%26issueDate%3D2009-01-19%26section%3DWashington%2BOutlook%26headline%3DInside%2Binformation%2Bfrom%2Bthe%2BU2eS2e%2Bcapital%26rssid%3D123456789\">pushing for more Super Hornets<\/a>, and the DoD, who were trying to accellerate purchases, doubtless to beat this announcement. (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which means that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is massively over budget. They have finally gotten to the point where they cannot use accounting tricks to cover this up. I expect the unit cost to rise sharply now, and be near that of the F-22. A number of people have been predicting this, most notably &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1038,998,1008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-budget","category-congress","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193047"}],"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=193047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}