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So, win a bid, and then completely change everything after you've won. A bit like promising a bunch of impossible BS to win an election and then not sticking to any of the promises surely.

https://www.defensenews.com/industr...twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tw_dfn
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I genuinely hope we have nasty cancellation penalties in those contracts. The US needs to shake up its industrial base, and if our contractors corporate leadership can no longer figure out the price of what it takes to build systems to spec and on time, then the executives need to be fired, the companies split up and new leadership put in place.

Sadly, while this is in the interest of both of our national security and the shareholders, it is not in the interest of congress.
 
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Industry has been crying about fixed price contracts since the 1950s.
Either put in realistically priced bids or produce on time and budget. Other industries seem to manage to.
 
US Army spent billions on a new helicopter that now will never fly

The U.S. Army is ending its latest effort to build a new armed scout helicopter, known as the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, an abrupt change of direction that marks one of the department’s most significant program cancellations of the last decade.

The service had already spent at least $2 billion on the program and had requested another $5 billion for the next five years, according to budget documents......

https://www.defensenews.com/air/202...-on-a-new-helicopter-that-now-will-never-fly/
Wow, yet again another stupendous amount spent on yet another cancelled program.

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Pioneer
 
Pioneer said:
US Army spent billions on a new helicopter that now will never fly

The U.S. Army is ending its latest effort to build a new armed scout helicopter, known as the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, an abrupt change of direction that marks one of the department’s most significant program cancellations of the last decade.

The service had already spent at least $2 billion on the program and had requested another $5 billion for the next five years, according to budget documents......

https://www.defensenews.com/air/202...-on-a-new-helicopter-that-now-will-never-fly/
Wow, yet again another stupendous amount spent on yet another cancelled program.

Regards
Pioneer
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Nobody really thought about the requirements much TBH. What advantages would it offer over a modernised Apache with off-board drone sensor and longer range NLOS missiles. But yeah, waste of money, could have at least spent it on developing laser satellites - the very worst that could happen is the same that happened here anyway.
 

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