If the workload for Japan based ships is so critical, and the American based ships isn’t, WHY NOT SEND THEM TO WHERE FORCE IS NEEDED?

“watch team members were not familiar with basic radar fundamentals, impeding effective use.”

Forget the 355 ships. Where they going to get the crews? Reinstate the Draft? Possibly, just possibly, the DoD can rethink the outmoded Fighting Two Major Conflicts doctrine and position forces where they are needed. Example: Why do we have Mediterranean and Atlantic fleet? Who is going to attack us in the…

Works with chicken bones, lamb bones, fish bones (v smelly) and nirvana in a simmering pot beef bones. It’s called stock.

The very definition of Old World Problems. The entire concept of hereditary royalty is irrelevant in the 21st Century.

Are there extensive structural modifications made during air frame construction for the special equipment AF1 carries?

Wow, those Nest cams are really great

I am sorry, as a resident of Los Angeles who has actually driven by this bloated monstrosity it is anything but a design statement. It is totally out of context in its surrounding and is a complete eyesore.

When his testicles finally drop, I think his voice should get deeper.

As a former DoD contractor, you are allowed to add to cost of overhead into the cost of goods sold, and it’s done on a total overhead cost divided by total number of parts. That’s how you get $700 toilet seats.

Us. We pay for everything.

“Anything stored digitally can be printed out” - you assume that there are printers available for a system that was sold as being “all digital.” 

Thank you.

Hey, I am trying to follow you @tjstarr, and all I find is Tom Collins surbaban dad, whose picture looks nothing like yours.

I agree with all the points in your article, our land based missiles are incredible capable, but what if the 8" floppy disk used to program them fails? And, no modern defense program survives contact with DoD’s byzantine procurement program without excessive cost overruns (see Littoral Combat Ship)

The crucial first minutes of any missile intercept rely on quick reaction. It the launch crew knows where the target is to be launched, then the position the transporter erector along the correct intercept path shaves crucial seconds off the interceptor’s acquisition of the target and saves precious fuel in…

If the humans knew the test, then launcher system did. It would be oriented, the course already locked in and everything would be ready for intercept. A true test would be a launch from a random location and trajectory.

The target was launched from a known location on a previously known course track, at a predetermined time. A real test would be a launch from an unknown location with zero prior notice. You know, like in combat.

Was it really a fair test? Usually with US military ABM systems, the target is coming from a known location at a set time and trajectory. Often the target vehicle has radar enhanced structures to make it easier for the kill vehicle to locate and destroy.