{"id":197300,"date":"2008-02-14T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/14\/us-air-force-intent-on-committing-suicide\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T02:44:00","slug":"us-air-force-intent-on-committing-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/14\/us-air-force-intent-on-committing-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force Intent on Committing Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Gen. Bruce Carlson, chief of Air Force Materiel Command, told a group of reporters Wednesday that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/generic\/story.jsp?id=news\/MORE02138.xml&amp;headline=General:%20We%20Will%20Find%20A%20Way%20To%20Buy%20380%20F-22s&amp;channel=defense\">Air Force will figure out a way to buy 380 F-22s<\/a>, despite the fact that the Pentagon &#8211; through the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) &#8211; has capped the number of Raptors to be procured at 183.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is first obvious is that is engaging in insubordination by giving a press conference saying that he will find a way to subvert the decisions of a superior in his chain of command, and he should be fired immediately.<\/p>\n<p>This is far more brassy, and far more public than anything MacArthur did to Truman.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, if he gets his wish, he will destroy the USAF as a fighting unit.<\/p>\n<p>Flight International&#8217;s Stephen Trimble <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/blogs\/the-dewline\/2008\/02\/questions-about-us-air-forces.html\">does the numbers<\/a>, and gets an additional 20 F-22s a year at $150 million an aircraft gets another $3 Billion a year over the next 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Based on my experience with military contracting, I&#8217;d double that number when operational expenses, the inevitable cost overruns, and gold plated block improvements are added.<\/p>\n<p>To do this, I think that you need to slash personnel, and cancel pretty much every other program, the F-35, the KC-X, the next gen bomber, the next gen freighter, etc.<\/p>\n<p>You will also have to reduce the existing inventory to cut costs and to reflect the fact that you don&#8217;t have enough people to keep the stuff running<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen. Bruce Carlson, chief of Air Force Materiel Command, told a group of reporters Wednesday that the Air Force will figure out a way to buy 380 F-22s, despite the fact that the Pentagon &#8211; through the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) &#8211; has capped the number of Raptors to be procured at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1008,982,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-defense-procurement","category-stupid","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197300"}],"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=197300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}