U.S. military budget to start funding post-F-35 'X-plane'

[unhappycamper]

http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/u-s-military-budget-to-start-funding-post-f-/article_97a28568-f015-57e1-8d11-1660f628a532.html



U.S. military budget to start funding post-F-35 'X-plane'
January 28, 2015 10:56 am • by ANDREA SHALAL • Reuters

WASHINGTON • The Pentagon said on Wednesday its fiscal 2016 budget proposal will fund early technology development and prototyping of a "next-generation X-plane" that would eventually succeed the F-35 fighter jet being developed and built by Lockheed Martin Corp.

Defense Undersecretary Frank Kendall, the Pentagon's chief arms buyer, said the funding would be part of a new "aerospace innovation initiative" aimed at ensuring that the U.S. military continued to dominate the skies despite development of so-called fifth-generation stealth fighters by China and others.

He told the House Armed Services Committee the initiative would be headed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, with help from the Air Force and the Navy.

Speaking with reporters during a break in the hearing, Kendall declined to give details on the amount of funding involved in the new initiative since the Pentagon's budget will not be delivered to Congress until Monday.

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It is a ballsy move to start funding another new jet to replace the jet that was supposed to replace all jets. I wonder if anyone will notice.

Anyone? Bueller?

[msongs]

1. endlessly screwing the people nt

[leveymg]

2. We have an exclusive spy photo of the prototype:

Not very stealthy, but practically indestructible:

[MisterP]

3. by 2030 we'll be working on 4 planes simultaneously, each the other 3's replacement

same thing with our Mideast policy: it used to take decades between the time that we sponsored a brutal dictator and then started a war to depose him, or one decade between us funding meta-Salafi supremacists (urging them to go further harder faster better) and then sending bombers and hit teams after them: with Syria we brought the lead time down to zero