Confusion Surrounds F/A-22 Upgrade Program

"Henry J Cobb" wrote in message
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Jeb Hoge wrote:
Henry J Cobb wrote in message
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John Cook wrote:

http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/new...p?id=news/0322
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...and they have stripped other projects to keep F/A-22 alive.

No wonder they need more money than the Navy and Marines combined
(killing off American shipbuilding until at least 2009), anybody know
what inside the Force itself has been gutted to feed this beast?

Huh? What shipbuilding are they killing off? Let's see some
attribution; DDG-51-class and LPD 17-class production alone
invalidates your claim, unless those really aren't ships under
construction that I saw in Bath.

The last DDGs get started next year.

And then it's 1 LPD, 1 Sub and 1 or 2 other warships until 2009.

Wow...uhh...nope. You kind of forgot the Navy's premier
shipbuilding-expense-eaters, the CVN's. CVN 78 is under construction, and
will remain under construction through most of this period, entering the
fleet in 2009. Meanwhile, in 2007 NNSDD will start construction of CVN 79.

Kind of easy to slam the DoD for spending all of that money on the USAF,
etc., when you are willing to ignore the billions of bucks going into CVN
production, huh? Not to mention all of those construction programs you are
ignoring...

The actual scenario is quite different:

"Our FY 2005 Budget request calls for construction of nine ships: three
ARLEIGH BURKE (DDG 51) Class destroyers; one VIRGINIA (SSN 774) Class
submarine; one SAN ANTONIO (LPD 17) Class Amphibious Transport Dock ship;
two LEWIS & CLARK (T-AKE) Class Auxiliary Cargo & Ammunition ships; one
DD(X); and one Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). If approved, this would increase
to 38 the total number of ships authorized and under construction. The FY
2005 Budget request represents an increase of two ships over the seven ships
in the FY 2004 program. In addition, we have requested funding for advance
procurement of the eighth and ninth VIRGINIA Class submarines, Economic
Order Quantity (EOQ) material procurement for the eighth, ninth, and tenth
VIRGINIA Class submarines, advance procurement for CVN 21 construction and
CVN 70 refueling complex overhaul (RCOH), continued funding for SSGN
Engineered Refueling Overhaul (ERO) and conversion, continued funding for
LHD 8, funding for TICONDEROGA Class cruiser modernization, and the service
life extension for five Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) craft."

http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/...p=1078 633039

Hardly a case of "killing off shipbuilding". Henry, when are you going to
give up this ridiculous "Chicken Little" parody of your's?

Brooks


(If each sub lasts 30 years and you only buy one a year, how many will
you wind up with?)

Starting in 2009 we get a "Rush order sought for untried vessel".


http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/m..._1n22ship.html

So the big LCS buy might get put off for a few years after that point.

-HJC