{"id":194176,"date":"2008-10-18T05:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/18\/another-project-that-i-worked-on-has-news\/"},"modified":"2008-10-18T05:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T10:28:00","slug":"another-project-that-i-worked-on-has-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/18\/another-project-that-i-worked-on-has-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Project that I Worked On* Has News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Marines have just <a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=3765260&amp;c=AME&amp;s=TOP\">put in orders for 7 more Expeditionary Fighting Vehicles<\/a> (EFV).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very ambitious ambitious amphibious vehicle, when I worked on it it was called the Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAAV), and it is a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> ambitious program, a 35 ton vehicle capable of 40 kts in the water by planing like a speed boat.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it has hit the trifecta in military contracting, over budget, behind schedule, and having technical shortcomings, and the new protypes are supposed to address.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wiring and corrosion, and water infiltration issues.<\/li>\n<li>Insufficient rigidity in the auto-cannon turret leading to feed issues.<\/li>\n<li>Instability in water, leading to problems staying on plane.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They are not looking at full rate production starting at 2025.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Yes, I have worked everywhere. Maybe I can&#8217;t hold down a job, but more likely this has been my role as &#8220;technical hit man&#8221;, where you are parachuted in to take care of a specific need.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Marines have just put in orders for 7 more Expeditionary Fighting Vehicles (EFV). It&#8217;s a very ambitious ambitious amphibious vehicle, when I worked on it it was called the Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAAV), and it is a very ambitious program, a 35 ton vehicle capable of 40 kts in the water by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1006,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-military","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194176"}],"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=194176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}