U.S. Air Force General Wants Simpler Weapons Quicker -- Reuters
(Reuters) - The three-star general who heads the secretive U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command is pressing arms makers to speed up the development of new weapons and move toward greater standardization of aircraft and sensors.
"We're pretty relentless," Air Force Lieutenant General Eric Fiel told Reuters at the annual Air Force Association conference this week.
"We put a man on the moon in 9 years. We can't even bring a major weapons system in less than that now," he said in a rare interview with a senior officer in one of the Air Force's most hush hush units. "Why does it take that long?"
Fiel's remarks echoed those made by other Air Force leaders and top Pentagon leaders, who are struggling to fund key weapons programs at a time when U.S. military spending is due to decline by nearly $1 trillion over the decade beginning in fiscal 2013.
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My Comment: He and the Air Force do not only want these weapons quicker and simpler .... they also want it at a cheaper price.What's my take .... I definitely hope that he succeeds.
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