Dramatic shift in Pentagon's thinking to align themselves with what I said

[Kuciwalker]

Yeah, let's face it, NYE isn't clever enough for post #4 to be sarcasm.

[KrazyHorse]

This is why poly needs me around.

[MOBIUS]

1.) If I had to guess it is about a year, and of course the production line has a capacity.

If it's the aircraft of the future, surely they can confidently increase capacity in the knowledge that it will be used in the future.

2.) It sounded like they said OVER a theater by 10, which means increasing available assets so that there is the ability to have ten more in the air at any one time. That means far more than ten in total as you will always have some being used for training or down for maintinence of whatever.

Ah, OK, that makes sense. I was thinking of just the extra 10 without factoring in those extra numbers.

Adding 10-20 airfames the size of a Predator in three years from a brand new requirment on top of a what was already being procured is actually very fast by any standard.

I still have a problem with this. You're talking about manufacturing 3-7 machines extra per year - that still seems incredibly slow IMO for a tech that saves US lives during a sort of quasi war footing! I know it's not a WWII production line, and that these are advanced bits of kit, but this seems more akin to a cottage industry...

Which is my point really. They've had 8 years to realise what a ****ing good idea UAVs are and yet they're still ordering them on a practically individual basis!

[MOBIUS]

Yeah, let's face it, NYE isn't clever enough for post #4 to be sarcasm.

I still have issues with GT claiming his 'Catcher in the Sky' was a play on words of his and not just him being dumb and remembering the title wrong. He certainly wouldn't have been able to make it up on his own, in any case...

[MikeH]

They'd need to change some of their entertainers into engineers to increase their hammers. Or switch back to slavery and whip the helicopters.

[MOBIUS]

Exactly!

Maybe it’s to do with the handicap of changing from a Theocracy to a Democracy, not to mention the one turn of anarchy that goes with that.