TheRef65 wrote:
spot wrote:
trail wrote:
spot wrote:
But to essentially condemn some guy as tainted because he worked for some defense contracts during his career at Boeing? That's just lazy, weak, and lame.
His pushing for funding of the F-15X when the Air Force explicitly says it doesn't want any, preferring more F-35's instead.. The F-15 comes from the company Shanahan used to work for. And the F-35 doesn't.
That's not proof of anything. But given that other Trump appointees assigned to regulate industries where they were insiders have shown strong evidence of regulatory capture, the suspicion at least occurs to me here.
Yeah, that’s problematic for sure, especially since he’s a former Boeing guy. That being said...I’m not entirely sure that the USAF is taking the long view here. If Boeing stops building fighters, then the lone company capable of building them will be Lockheed, and I don’t think that’s in the best interest of the country. Keeping Boeing in the fighter business Is a valid requirement in my mind.
There is so much incest in the aerospace industry it's ridiculous I don't really think it matters how many different companies are involved. I deal with men and women every day who have gone from one aerospace company to another, both on the commercial and military side. The idea that technology is not being traded between companies, I believe is a false one, whether on purpose or secretly. Designs do not change dramatically from one company to the next. They all believe they are very innovative but once you see the designs, there are a ton of similarities.
Totally disagree. If two companies are trying to comply with requirement X, then there is probably not too many ways to skin that particular cat. The notion that Boeing and Lockheed are trading proprietary designs with each other? I give that a .001% chance of being correct.
And, the notion that it doesn't matter if different companies are involved...you do realize that if you have no active fighter contracts, you now have this huge overhead of $200+ an hour engineers on your payroll with no end in sight, right? If Boeing is forced to shut down its fighter production line, not only with the manufacturing guys go, but also engineers who can design a new fighter.
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