The Army lost connection with a drone in-flight and decided, well, I dunno what happened with it; I guess it must have crashed. In reality, the drone had flown for an additional six hundred miles, much longer than its designed range, and wound up stuck in a tree. (RT: Mysterious case of the missing drone: Army aircraft disappears from Arizona, found in Colorado)
- RT
You have a problem when the robos are smarter than the people who drive them, particularly when the robos carry heavy weapons. In this case, the robo drone wasn't armed but how many times do you think this has happened in combat situations and you will never know because the military won't tell you anyway.
If you think that's simple Socialist grousing, consider USS Scorpion which blew up while at sea and it was probably caused by the Navy's poor maintenance program but it was twenty-five years before anything was declassified on the matter.
Note: Pink was a submariner and he might be disappointed if I failed to mention the Navy implemented the SUBSAFE program as a result of this loss and that of USS Thresher with the result no sub has been lost since.
The failure of the Army's drone is symptomatic of weapons systems which don't work and the textbook case right now is the F-35 which has been breaking ever since Lockheed Martin pronounced it operational. If you think any of this is exaggeration, consider when you last heard mention of the term 'smart bomb' and it's likely been a while since 'smart' doesn't work so well after America blew up some hospitals with them. Laser-guided technology doesn't mean all that much when there are patients, nurses, and doctors blown into little bloody bits by it.
This gets better since the military is poor-mouthing it along with the Royal Navy as if they will sing a duet of "Queen for a Day" which each compares the misery of their sagas so the crowd can judge which one will win the grand prize of a free dishwasher. (RT: Two-thirds of US Navy strike fighter can’t fly – report)
For that announcement to have any credibility whatsoever, we have to believe the military just plumb didn't notice there were so many broken aircraft until hardly any of them could fly anymore.
The Royal Navy announced in the last few days none of their nuclear submarines is in operational status also due to maintenance problems.
Roll this back up to the top since the overall premise is the military organizations in both countries are building devices which don't work or work poorly while they charge astronomical amounts of money to provide them but give nothing in increased security in return.
- RT
You have a problem when the robos are smarter than the people who drive them, particularly when the robos carry heavy weapons. In this case, the robo drone wasn't armed but how many times do you think this has happened in combat situations and you will never know because the military won't tell you anyway.
If you think that's simple Socialist grousing, consider USS Scorpion which blew up while at sea and it was probably caused by the Navy's poor maintenance program but it was twenty-five years before anything was declassified on the matter.
Note: Pink was a submariner and he might be disappointed if I failed to mention the Navy implemented the SUBSAFE program as a result of this loss and that of USS Thresher with the result no sub has been lost since.
The failure of the Army's drone is symptomatic of weapons systems which don't work and the textbook case right now is the F-35 which has been breaking ever since Lockheed Martin pronounced it operational. If you think any of this is exaggeration, consider when you last heard mention of the term 'smart bomb' and it's likely been a while since 'smart' doesn't work so well after America blew up some hospitals with them. Laser-guided technology doesn't mean all that much when there are patients, nurses, and doctors blown into little bloody bits by it.
This gets better since the military is poor-mouthing it along with the Royal Navy as if they will sing a duet of "Queen for a Day" which each compares the misery of their sagas so the crowd can judge which one will win the grand prize of a free dishwasher. (RT: Two-thirds of US Navy strike fighter can’t fly – report)
For that announcement to have any credibility whatsoever, we have to believe the military just plumb didn't notice there were so many broken aircraft until hardly any of them could fly anymore.
The Royal Navy announced in the last few days none of their nuclear submarines is in operational status also due to maintenance problems.
Roll this back up to the top since the overall premise is the military organizations in both countries are building devices which don't work or work poorly while they charge astronomical amounts of money to provide them but give nothing in increased security in return.
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You can look back to the FB 111 swing wing fighter bomber. While I was stationed working on them. I dont remember a time when the squadron was more than about 50% operational. Mostly due to lack of parts. Maybe because I was one of the mechanics.
Holy mackerel! Lacking parts is a bad reason!
The Nimitz class aircraft carriers host about ninety aircraft so now it appears half of them will be busted at any given time. Glory!
These don't strike me as the types of systems which could have won WWII because they break so easily. One of the things fliers apparently loved about a B-17 was it could be shot all to hell but still have a chance to make it home.
Even then most were on the ground waiting parts. They made it home then sat waiting repair or replacement.
A quick fact check in the course of the 3+ years they were operational Boeing manufacturer over 12000 bt the highest inventory was Aug1944 of less than 5000. I could not find a percent of airworthy craft at any given time.
It might be grim to dig deeper due to the number lost in combat. Memphis Belle was relatively late in the war to be the first one to survive the required twenty sorties.
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