Earlier this year Stephen Trimble stopped by the Patterson School and gave an excellent talk on the F-22 and F-35. He spoke quite a bit about this: The F-35 reportedly has similar issues, although it's still in the test flight phase and has some characteristics...
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Yes, it's a $150 million plane, but the first concern needs to be the safe recovery of the pilot. I'm not terribly optimistic.
I'll admit to getting pretty excited by the F-22 cancellation last year. It seemed to indicate that Robert Gates and the Obama administration were willing to get serious about costly.
Some back of the envelope calculations:US public health care spending per capita: ~$3200UK public health care spending per capita: ~$2200Difference between US and UK: ~$1000Number of people in United States: ~300,000,000Number of people multiplied by difference in public health care spending between US and UK:...
Via Ezra, this is an interesting post from Gordon Adams:For a major program to emerge, thrive, and survive, it takes basically three players: the service that wants and will advocate.
The F-22 has a faint heartbeat in the House of Representatives, but appears to be slipping away:The committee voted July 22 to spend $369 million to buy another dozen F-22s,.
Obama: But I reject the notion that we have to waste billions of taxpayer dollars on outdated and unnecessary defense projects to keep this nation secure. That’s why I’ve taken steps to greatly reduce no-bid defense contracts. That’s why I’ve signed overwhelmingly bipartisan legislation to...
Senate rejects extra funding for the F-22!!!!
Spencer has been following the F-22 debate closer than I; it appears that Carl Levin lacks the votes to outright kill the F-22, and thus that the potential for a.
Obama Axes Pentagon Plan To Build Billion Dollar Tank In Shape Of DragonWhat this video doesn't discuss is the plight of the 95000 workers who will be put on the street by the cancellation of the Dragon Tank. For shame, President Obama. For shame.
The F-22 was supposed to free us from the costs of maintaining on aging, expensive fleet of F-15s. Turns out that this may have been a touch optimistic, and that.
Via Ezra, via Krugman:These arguments will come from the very people who denied that the economic recovery plan created any jobs. We have a very odd economic philosophy in Washington:.