Bill wrote<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Don't Quote me but the secretary of defense and President Barack O'Bama hate the F-22</div><div>and allot of other programs like that.He is the first President since Dwight Eisenhower who </div>
<div>who believe less is more.</div><div><br></div><div>To make a comparison at the end of the Korean War we had 254 'detroyers FRAME II 36 knot </div><div>ships of 3000 tons each now we have a hell of a lot less Frigates and Destroyers of average 8000</div>
<div>tons each that are too few to protect more than one front at a time</div><div>Wo be the Admirals who decided like little children they had to have a new ship or they would go</div><div>in the corner and cry. Then it became the Airforce's turn and all those generals played the same game,<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>If you find this interesting get a movie I am not sure the name maybe the Pentagon game" about </div><div>the procurement of the "Bradley fighting vehicle the "Tank" we sent to Iraqed and found out they were</div>
<div>a piece of ship.It was supposed to be a new armoured Personel carrier for a squad of men it turn out</div><div>to be an aluminum coffin.We sold some to the Israeli's they completely rebuilt it using I think it's plobam</div>
<div>armour and a whole bunch of new enhancement and it works now. According to the movie it took 22 years</div><div>and 19 different model to get what they ended up with.All those little changed the entire conception of the</div>
<div>idea to get their 2 cents worth its a sad funny story.</div><div><br></div><div>This is what we used to do let each company independantly of each other come up with their own idea's then the</div><div>generals and the Admirals picked the one they wanted </div>
<div><br></div><div>DC-3,B-17,B-29,F-86 All the battlehips destroyers everything we build for WWII was a design in competition</div><div>that all changed the day Eisenhower left office .Remember what he said .He gave a speech about the fear</div>
<div>of "Military Industrial complex: that is what we have now . This is the first president in half a century who is making</div><div>sounds he wants to go back to old way a lot of flag officers are going to go into the corner and start crying and who</div>
<div>do they cry with the The Congress of the United states of America their buddies/</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div><div>PS </div><div>Do you know what you get in the Navy if you don't get a sea command you sail a desk into procurement and you use your</div>
<div>star that you just received for being promoted to admiral to play with model ships to build new ships like a little kid plays with models.So how did they power their new 8,000 tonners CODAG "Combination of Diesel and Gas Turbine range less than than the WWII ones and slower and this new terrorist world you know what the new Navy is missing those 6 5" guns that the</div>
<div>Fram II had.</div><div>.</div><div><br></div><div>Regard</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Roy Coates <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roy@flightlab.liv.ac.uk">roy@flightlab.liv.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Gene Buckle wrote:<br>
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> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Rob Hommel wrote:<br>
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> > I thought it interesting that they were saying it's going to be available only for export.<br>
> > <a href="http://thefutureofthings.com/pod/6685/boeings-new-stealth-f-15.html" target="_blank">http://thefutureofthings.com/pod/6685/boeings-new-stealth-f-15.html</a><br>
> ><br>
> Well that doesn't really surprise me. The USAF doesn't want _anything_ to<br>
> come between them and their beloved F-22. A cheaper plane that could do a<br>
> similar job offered locally could scupper their ongoing production<br>
> schedule.<br>
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My cynic alert just went off-scale... anyone know why?<br>
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Roy Coates.<br>
Dept of Engineering.<br>
Liverpool University.<br>
E-Mail: <a href="mailto:r.coates@liv.ac.uk">r.coates@liv.ac.uk</a><br>
Tel: 0151 794 4862<br>
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