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Henry J Cobb wrote:
Jeb Hoge wrote: 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. They get ordered next year, but it's a multi-year buy; construction on the last ships will probably take a bit longer to get rolling. But the basic point is that even if the Air Force had cancelled F-22 years ago, that would not translate into more Navy procurement money. It simply doesn't work that way. In reality, the services each get a nearly fixed share of the budget (their top-line) and then work out how to spend it. The relative percentages of service budgets change very slowly and almost never over single programs. If the Air Force axed the F/A-22, it would reallocate that money to other Air Force programs, not to the Navy shipbuilding accounts. Every now and then the Navy talks about getting a larger fraction of the overall DoD budget, but the internal politics make this a very hard sell within OSD, where the top-lines are prepared. The services guard their total allocations very closely. -- Tom Schoene Replace "invalid" with "net" to e-mail "Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right." - Senator Carl Schurz, 1872 |
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"Kevin Brooks" wrote:
Idiot. You think they snap their fingers and they slide down the ways that same year? Those ships will be under construction throughout that oh-so-terrible period you keep whining about. It takes a long time to learn how to fold a Washington Post into an aircraft carrier shape. ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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