{"id":197416,"date":"2008-02-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/06\/f-136-alternate-jsf-engine-killed-in-pentagon-budget\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T11:00:00","slug":"f-136-alternate-jsf-engine-killed-in-pentagon-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/06\/f-136-alternate-jsf-engine-killed-in-pentagon-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"F-136 Alternate JSF Engine Killed in Pentagon Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I fully expect it to come back.  <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%3A2afb375f-19ed-417a-8ef1-87663aabe0b5\">This happens every year<\/a>.  The Pentagon kills it, and Congress puts it back.<\/p>\n<p>I support the F-136 for two reasons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I believe that having two ending suppliers for the JSF will make for better cheaper engines in the long run.<\/li>\n<li>There will be weight growth, and the F-135 appears to be marginal in that case for the STOVL version.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s not put back on the budget for those reasons.  It&#8217;s put back because GE is big in a lot of Congressional Districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fully expect it to come back. This happens every year. The Pentagon kills it, and Congress puts it back. I support the F-136 for two reasons: I believe that having two ending suppliers for the JSF will make for better cheaper engines in the long run. There will be weight growth, and the F-135 &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197416"}],"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=197416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}