Warzone/The Drive: Wait, The USAF Is Spending Hundreds Of Thousands Airlifting Two Dodge Chargers To The UK?
The Air Force says it might just source chase cars there if it can't cut through various red tape to fly them. Why isn't it doing that already?
Two Dodge Charger chase cars the Air Force uses to help U-2 Dragon Lady spy planes land are hung up in red tape at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey as the service works to clear them to fly aboard one its transport aircraft to RAF Mildenhall in the United Kingdom. It's not entirely clear how this has happened or why the Air Force has chosen what will invariably be the very costly option of shipping these cars via airlifter across the pond, to begin with.
The Air Force first revealed the cars' predicament in a news story on Aug. 21, 2019. It's not clear when the cars first arrived at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JBMDL), but they were there at least as of Aug. 12. Four days later, the 305th Aerial Port Squadron received orders to get them ready to go to RAF Mildenhall. An unspecified support truck is also part of the prospective shipment.
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Update: The Air Force is trying to figure out how to get 2 Dodge muscle cars across the Atlantic so they can help U-2 spy planes land (Business Insider/Air Force Times).
WNU Editor: There are a lot of fast cars in the U.K. that one can easily buy (and it will be cheaper) than shipping them via air transport from the U.S. to the U.K..
5 comments:
Complex systems and red tape require a lot of leadership to make decisions (because no one wants to be downgraded or even expelled from service and fight for their financial lives in the private sector).. thus you get bad decisions and indecisions. .. cumulatively of we could simplify such complex system it could save billions every year. .but to do so based on today's requirements of oversight, auditing etc is a monumental task..could also explain why the pentagon can't keep their books straight, with a couple trillion (with a T) missing over the years. That, corruption and shadow projects so deep you need a stick to make sure you're on solid ground. Decompartmentalisation for safe keeping/so that no one individual knows everything is another beauty. All this stuff - practiced in all major industrial tier1/2 nations is perhaps hundreds of billions in waste, loss, corruption and red tape a year. And we can't clean it up. You can try but you'll be sued or worse ;)
The above comment nails it.
But that aside, the Chargers depicted appear to be regular police versions. Which have the V-6 engine.
When I clicked the story I was expecting to see the Hell Cat or at least the 392 Hemi. Either of which would be perfect for roaring up and down a runway. Nope - not even the modest 5.0 Hemi V-8.
/Disappointing on all levels.
Freeze their budget and things would change.
Russ, the muscular roar of a V8 has been muted for lbgtqxz troop's in the military. Their confusion from such a macho display and, of course, environmental mindsets in increasingly solar and wind powered England would just not be tolerated.
"There will always be an England". But the question is will it be respected on the world stage?
“Oh, the humanity!”
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