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18 Mar 2006 07:39:10 AM |
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Something more stupid the General Relativity |
I just read a news article about a more stupid waste of the taxpayers
money than General Relativity.As can be seen from the article below,
the military will be spending $200 billion on a new aerial refueling
fleet.
Considering that the government spends hundreds of billions of dollars
for equipment,
and to train chicken hawk pilots like George Bush, and considering that
today's electronics
is smarter and BRAVER and more willing to go into combat than chicken
hawks,
it seems to me that it is insane to have a multi billion dollars aerial
refueling fleet
for chicken hawks, when the missions can be accomplished cheaper and
better
by having the tankers convey drones into combat areas,
and have the drones use GPS and Google Earth mashups to find their
targets.
In other words, rather than design a system that depends upon refueling
planes piloted by chicken hawks, have the big planes dump a batch of
drones,
programmed to do the required jobs, into the combat zone.
Cheaper, far lower training cost, no chickens in the bunch, fast
mission briefing time,
less depletion of energy and resources, smaller maintenance and
training backup, etc.
The news article follows:
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Two senior Pentagon officials this week offered House lawmakers
differing views on how the Air Force should shape its KC-135 aerial
tanker replacement fleet, as the service moves closer to formally
launching the multibillion-dollar effort.
Air Mobility Command vice chief Lt. Gen. Christopher Kelly told the
House Armed Services force projection subcommittee Feb. 28 that he
would prefer the Air Force replace its aging KC-135s with some mix of
medium- and large-sized aerial tankers. Deputy service Chief of Staff
for Acquisition Lt. Gen. Donald Hoffman, meanwhile, told the panel he
advocates buying only a single version of a medium-sized refueling
aircraft.
Military officials and defense analysts this week agreed the service
appears to have convinced the Office of the Secretary of Defense and
most lawmakers to support the potentially $200 billion program. The
biggest unresolved question, they said, is what size taker -- medium or
large -- the service should buy or whether a combination buy would be
best.
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