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June 18, 2009 | Posted by Abu Muqawama - 11:44am | 12 Comments
From Inside Defense:
June 17, 2009 -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates is considering options to reshape the military that could squeeze up to $75 billion from current budget plans to pay for new capabilities and units designed to deal with high-end asymmetric threats and irregular operations, according to Pentagon officials. Three previously unreported proposals -- prepared by David Ochmanek, deputy assistant secretary of defense for force development, and presented to Gates during a June 5 meeting on the Quadrennial Defense Review -- set forth low-, medium- and high-cost options for buying new capabilities and units over the next five years, these officials say.
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Only for subscribers ... :-( So I'm free to spout my nonsense without serious input :-) :
Scrap half of the planned F-35. Re-start the OV-10 Bronco line at Boeing, with updated sensors + modern engines.
cf. http://warisboring.com/?p=1801; http://warisboring.com/?p=1600 :
"Springbored writes, “capable of serving in low-threat areas … and it can land on an amphibious flattop. Just don’t go too crazy goldplating it. And build ‘em fast.”
The Bronco aligns perfectly with the recent trend towards dirty, low-intensity war requiring constant air support. With the bureaucracy focused on prestigious, high-priced buys of stealthy fighters, the low end of the force structure has suffered at precisely the moment when those kinds of forces are badly needed.
* The Marines could use Broncos to fill out attack squadrons depleted by the unwise investment in the late, over-budget F-35B stealthy jump jet.
* The Air Force could buy new Broncos to complement the A-10 fleet, half of which is in depot maintenance due to fatigue issues.
* Foreign allies with their own domestic insurgencies — The Philippines, Iraq and Latin American countries — need Bronco-style airplanes as their main armed aircraft. "
Nice Pictures:
http://www.flyingsquadron.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t15557.html
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Does anyone have access to
Does anyone have access to the web site to post the full article?
if you want to talk about a
if you want to talk about a waste of money, look at the un-told trillions we've spent on surface to air missiles.
So far, the total return is:
US Navy -- 2 North Vietnamese MiGs and 1 Iranian airliner
US Army -- 2 friendly aircraft during Operation Iraqi Freedom
AKAIK you've got the awsner
AKAIK you've got the awsner in one!
Great thinking! That raelly
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