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- Thread starter Randy Daytona
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So what happened with the contract? The suspense!
Did we keep buying the part at the higher price? Did a competitor offer a new solution for less? Was there some settlement that allowed the price to be brought back down? Or was the Congressman in the manufacturer’s district able to get the Appropriations bill increased to just the right amount?
We’ll have to wait until tonight.
I was wrong…it aired last weekend! Put simply, we are being screwed by the industry. As the guy put it (roughly) “they tell us they are gouging us and they look you in the eye and say we’ll keep doing it.” But the “good” news is we won’t need as many enlisted guys as it appears things like the F-35 have proprietary tech that only corporate can work on!
BLUF…it is a disturbing report.
Good article on the Blackhawk replacement V-280 tilt-rotor with a possible futuristic cockpit configuration (not sure if this is still accurate but it does look high tech)
www.sandboxx.us
The Army's new V-280 Valor's cockpit is out of this world
The cockpit on the Army's new V-280 Valor looks like it was pulled straight out of a science fiction movie.
www.sandboxx.us
You could probably play Sonic Adventures 2 on that, looking at the graphics.
In all seriousness, is anyone worried that this is going to be in a position to take small arms fire and if one round goes through the display, all of your instruments are fucked compared to having individual screens and independent backup analog ones?
In all seriousness, is anyone worried that this is going to be in a position to take small arms fire and if one round goes through the display, all of your instruments are fucked compared to having individual screens and independent backup analog ones?
Or survive lighting strike.
Maybe a Helmet Mounted Cuing System? Or is that just for Fighter Attack Guys? ??♂️
If you’re planning a conventional air assault into a zone that will take small arms fire then you’re probably fucked up. This isn’t Vietnam, there are rules.
We do have an HMD in the V-22, both a daytime monocle that mounts directly to the NVG mount assembly and a night monocle that goes on the front of either the left or right NVG tube. Albeit with some minor differences, it serves as either a PFD or Hover page repeater.
Sometimes military equipment ends up having to be used in roles it wasn't originally designed for because the assumption that it would never be put into such conditions was wrong. For example, the Abrams battle tank lacking the ability to fire the machine gun from inside of the tank, because it was assumed the tank would never end up in such a situation, then Iraq.
There was also that instance a couple of decades ago where a group of Apache helicopters got shot up heavily because someone messed up somewhere.
And of course also the "Blackhawk Down" disaster.
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It's a slight tangent, but I've read SpaceX has encountered this with hundreds of subcontractors/suppliers, and as a result, has taken to designing a lot of its own components in-house, apparently often better and cheaper than the subcontractors' offering (s).
Yeah I don’t know anything about those mission sets.
We know…you just come in low…out of the rising sun.