Ever read a newspaper and wonder why it has yesterday's news and not today's?
I guess the real problem is when misinformation gets enough exposure among "average punters" to become a useful political football. I take it this is what has happened in Canada, and even senor Drumpf tried his hand at it recently:Depends on the country. Saying some of our procurement people our average is being over generous.
If anyone wants to quote Bill, they had better get in quick. He is leaving AW on the 18th and going to NG as a, I think he uses the term, Shill.
Maybe they just want to ITAR him out of the industry. If you bring someone inhouse and clear them to look at certain stuff, even if they never look at it they will be treated as if they have and will never be able to work for certain competitors, on particular JVs, or to discuss certain matters ever again. You can use it to tie up someone so badly they can never work in the industry or discuss the industry with anyone, anywhere at all.
Nah, they would never get along. Kopp et al. would try to turn it into an uber-F111 (the REAL bombtruck... amirite?), while Pierre would want it to be a super-maneuverable, radarless dogfighter sporting a pair of 'winders on each wingtip.
nfloorl:It makes you wound what Sprey's ideal modern infantryman would be, a whippet thin distance runner in a Grecian kilt, armed with a titanium short sword and tattooed camouflage to save weight perhaps? There definitely wouldn't be body armour, night vision, accessories rifle or carbine, it would be his version of a modern naked Spartan.Nah, they would never get along. Kopp et al. would try to turn it into an uber-F111 (the REAL bombtruck... amirite?), while Pierre would want it to be a super-maneuverable, radarless dogfighter sporting a pair of 'winders on each wingtip.
Actually I would pay good money to be a fly on the wall in that situation...
I think you're onto something. Now just replace the Navy with hundreds of machine gun toting speed boats and you're set!
It's a real shame that informative articles like this never seem to make it to main stream media. Surely this is something the LM marketing team should be addressing. Don't know if it would sway the ignorant here but it couldn't hurt.
Nice find. That article (without footnotes) is available in PDF format here:
Why should LM devote additional resources to sell it''s product to Canada? Those at a government level would no doubt receive far more information than what is made in publications available to the public. Particularly when Canada is a level three partner!
The government people (DND and PWC) know what's what. No matter, it's the pollies who call the shots and they swing with public opinion for the most part. The anti-F-35 crowd has really done a hatchet job on the F-35 so it is really the court of public opinion that LM needs to work on IMO.
if you're going ti be influenced by public opinion to undertake force development then you're beyond stuffed.
In Canada it's not only the Greens, it's the Liberals and the NDP who are at the kumbayah campfire as well. The Liberals should have had enough time by now to understand why the F-35 is the best solution but I don't see any acknowledgement of this reality by them to date.
I beg to differ John. It's up to the Canadian Government to justify to Lockheed Martin why it should continue to benefit from work share on the F-35 program given it's anti F-35 stance. Trying to blame the electorates mood towards the F-35 on LM marketing is far from adequate.
Both the JSF program office and LM have been lame in their response to work share. No order then no work share is the message they need to send. As for the electoral mood, the anti-F35 voices have been effective in creating the negative attitude about the jet and there is no counter to this verbal diarrhea.
At some point there will be existing buyers who will raise the issues with LMA about getting approp work share given that the canadians are disinterested.