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Online rangerrebew

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Elon Musk, Charged with Cutting Federal Spending, Calls the F-35 a Waste of Money
« on: November 28, 2024, 10:08:36 am »
Elon Musk, Charged with Cutting Federal Spending, Calls the F-35 a Waste of Money
 
Fort Worth Star-Telegram | By Eleanor Dearman
Published November 27, 2024 at 8:50 am

The person soon to be in charge of cutting federal spending is blasting a Lockheed Martin jet made in Fort Worth, Texas.

Billionaire Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla and SpaceX, said Tuesday, Nov. 26, on X (formerly Twitter) that the U.S. should pull the plug on the Lockheed-Martin's F-35.
 
"Some US weapons systems are good, albeit overpriced, but please, in the name of all that is holy, let us stop the worst military value for money in history that is the F-35 program!" he wrote.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/11/27/elon-musk-charged-cutting-federal-spending-calls-f-35-waste-of-money.html
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Re: Elon Musk, Charged with Cutting Federal Spending, Calls the F-35 a Waste of Money
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2024, 01:23:32 pm »
From the point of view of the present, with the advent of serious drone warfare in Ukraine, continued spending on manned warplanes at the level we have been looks wasteful.  On the other hand, the airframe of the F-35 retrofitted to be remotely piloted as a drone might be a heck of an addition to our arsenal.
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Elon Musk, charged with cutting federal spending, calls Fort Worth’s F-35 a waste of money
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2024, 11:06:19 am »
American Military News by  Eleanor Dearman - Fort Worth Star Telegram  November 28, 2024

The person soon to be in charge of cutting federal spending is blasting a Lockheed Martin jet made in Fort Worth.

Billionaire Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla and SpaceX, said Tuesday, Nov. 26, on X that the U.S. should pull the plug on the Lockheed-Martin’s F-35, made in Fort Worth.

“Some US weapons systems are good, albeit overpriced, but please, in the name of all that is holy, let us stop the worst military value for money in history that is the F-35 program!” he wrote.

The comment was one of several criticisms Musk made of the fighter, which is expected to cost the federal government more than $2 trillion over its life span, according to Defense News.

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Musk and fellow-billionnaire Vivek Ramaswamy to head up his new Department of Government Efficiency, aka DOGE (yes, like the crypto currency.) They will pave the way for Trump’s administration to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” Trump said in a statement.

Musk ultimately aims to cut $2 trillion in annual federal spending, but in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, he and Ramaswamy wrote that they plan to start with cutting $500 billion in federal spending that is not authorized by Congress.

More: https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/11/elon-musk-charged-with-cutting-federal-spending-calls-fort-worths-f-35-a-waste-of-money/
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Re: Elon Musk, Charged with Cutting Federal Spending, Calls the F-35 a Waste of Money
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2024, 11:30:47 am »
The seller of a heavily-government-subsidized luxury consumer product with little or no experience in dealing with military contracts and specifications has multiple credibility problems.
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Re: Elon Musk, Charged with Cutting Federal Spending, Calls the F-35 a Waste of Money
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2024, 12:59:59 pm »
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Re: Elon Musk, Charged with Cutting Federal Spending, Calls the F-35 a Waste of Money
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2024, 02:29:41 pm »
Quote from: PeteS in CA on November 29, 2024, 11:30:47 am
The seller of a heavily-government-subsidized luxury consumer product with little or no experience in dealing with military contracts and specifications has multiple credibility problems.
Oh, I don't know.

Just think of the money the government threw around making his products more successful.
In the meantime, while NASA is piddling, and Boeing can't get the astronauts home, he has accomplished a lot in the aerospace field, including landing a heavy booster back at the launch pad.
Where is his credibility at risk?
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Re: Elon Musk, Charged with Cutting Federal Spending, Calls the F-35 a Waste of Money
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2024, 02:39:10 pm »
Quote from: PeteS in CA on November 29, 2024, 11:30:47 am
The seller of a heavily-government-subsidized luxury consumer product with little or no experience in dealing with military contracts and specifications has multiple credibility problems.

And besides that, what would all those retired four stars do without all that $$$ to throw around.
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Re: Elon Musk, Charged with Cutting Federal Spending, Calls the F-35 a Waste of Money
« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2024, 05:59:41 pm »
OK, Elon...

Time to get your SpaceX boys to knock their heads together and conjure up a new plane that would perform better than the F-35, and perhaps cost less.

If there's anyone who can do it...
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