The Commanche and the Albatross
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Re: The Commanche and the Albatross
I really don't think that the people with control of the purse strings have any clue as to what reality looks like.
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What reason do they have to care?Cobar wrote:I really don't think that the people with control of the purse strings have any clue as to what reality looks like.
Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive. -Ennesby
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Well, out of sentimentality, we've kept an entire branch of the military around despite the fact that it was already showing its obsolescence as a concept during WW2. Sanity doesn't really have much to do with the defense budget.
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I sure many don't care. MY point was that even the ones that do can have all the briefings they want, they still won't get it. They are political animals not technical.Greg wrote:What reason do they have to care?Cobar wrote:I really don't think that the people with control of the purse strings have any clue as to what reality looks like.
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Billy Mitchell would be all over the F-35, and he probably would've arranged something unpleasant for Gates to protect F-22 production.skb12172 wrote:Another Billy Mitchell?
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Apparently you didn't get it. They don't care, and they *won't* care no matter how much we might want them to, because the people in charge of the money have no incentive to care what reality looks like. If they had reason to learn, they would learn.Cobar wrote:I sure many don't care. MY point was that even the ones that do can have all the briefings they want, they still won't get it. They are political animals not technical.Greg wrote:What reason do they have to care?Cobar wrote:I really don't think that the people with control of the purse strings have any clue as to what reality looks like.
Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive. -Ennesby
If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. -Unknown
Sanity is the process by which you continually adjust your beliefs so they are predictively sound. -esr
If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. -Unknown
Sanity is the process by which you continually adjust your beliefs so they are predictively sound. -esr
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Re: The Commanche and the Albatross
IIRC, the big thing for Mitchell and his intellectual progeny in the Army Air Corps was strategic bombers, because they better justified a separate Air Force. Don't recall his opinions on pursuit/fighter planes.Jericho941 wrote:Billy Mitchell would be all over the F-35, and he probably would've arranged something unpleasant for Gates to protect F-22 production.skb12172 wrote:Another Billy Mitchell?
What would also be interesting would have been his opinion on the YF-22 (more maneuverable, better 'production plan') vs the YF-23 (faster, much longer range). (My opinion is that the AF should have gone with the F-23, which is better suited to the Pacific theater, but hindsight is 20/20.)
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