Originally Posted by
tnkrdrvr
The taxpayers are still getting shafted since we don’t have operational use of the aircraft we paid for. Until Al Udeid and Dhafra have 46s on the ramp instead of 135s and 10s, we don’t really have the product we paid for.
There is that, I’ll admit. But that’s not all that uncommon. Looks like at least one of the LCS ship classes has fundamental design flaws in the propulsion system that may never be fixed. Military procurement has been totally broken for at least the last thirty years. A $5-6 billion foul up scarcely rates a footnote in the history books any more.