There's a delicious irony here, Andrew. In "Augustine's Laws," a damn good satire of military contracting practices, Norman Augustine wrote about the powerful advantages of complex software to profit:
"Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases."
Always increases, indeed! And so do profits (and control) for the F-35 and L/M. The F-35 is like every bad practice in "Augustine's Laws" coming true.
I thought it was a satire, Norm, not a user's manual! :-)
In spring 2020, officials banned the F-35A from flying within 25 nautical miles of lightning or thunderstorms after finding that a crucial system may not function correctly if hit by a bolt. At issue is the Onboard Inert Gas Generation System, or OBIGGS, which injects nitrogen-enriched air into the jet's fuel tanks.
"Nice democracy you got there. Be a shame if your financial services, aka "money laundering" activities were to result in sanctions. And we wouldn't want it to get out how you hid Nazi loot, would we?"
Why can't the Swiss start a new referedum on cancelling the order or better yet, cancelling the govt that sold out to the US?
what happened to the concern that the plane was using parts from China.
Weren't there people in our Congress mentioned that as a real detriment to the US
buying the plane, or have I dreamed this
There's a delicious irony here, Andrew. In "Augustine's Laws," a damn good satire of military contracting practices, Norman Augustine wrote about the powerful advantages of complex software to profit:
"Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases."
Always increases, indeed! And so do profits (and control) for the F-35 and L/M. The F-35 is like every bad practice in "Augustine's Laws" coming true.
I thought it was a satire, Norm, not a user's manual! :-)
In spring 2020, officials banned the F-35A from flying within 25 nautical miles of lightning or thunderstorms after finding that a crucial system may not function correctly if hit by a bolt. At issue is the Onboard Inert Gas Generation System, or OBIGGS, which injects nitrogen-enriched air into the jet's fuel tanks.
"Nice democracy you got there. Be a shame if your financial services, aka "money laundering" activities were to result in sanctions. And we wouldn't want it to get out how you hid Nazi loot, would we?"