Hawks: Cuts Will Dull Military's Edge -- Politico
“Proven” and “affordable” are words you hear a lot these days from sellers of military aircraft and other weapons systems in this dawning era of tight defense budgets.
The word you don’t hear so much is “new,” which worries some key lawmakers, Pentagon officials and defense contractors. Deep cuts in defense spending, they say, are threatening American industry’s ability to maintain its technological edge and causing a loss of intellectual capital that will be hard to get back.
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My Comment: The short answer is .... definitely yes.
The sentence that caught my attention is the following ....
.... “For the first time in 100 years, we do not have a design team working on a new manned airplane,” Boeing Executive Vice President Jim Albaugh said at a news conference last week, assuring skeptical reporters that it’s indeed possible to forget how to do that if you don’t have engineers with the right experience.
Indeed.
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