>>118185
The X-32 couldn't meet the Navy's maneuverability and payload requirements. All three versions would have had different wing designs while the F-35A and B share wings.
The X-32 couldn't do vertical lift with the same engine the X-35 had, they had to remove parts of the airframe to make it light enough.
The X-32 prototype was substantially different from what would have been produced, the X-35 was not.
And even scaled up as much as the X-35 was to the F-35, it was smaller to the point where it would have had about the same range as the AV-8B, while the F-35A and C have about same range as a F-14 with external tanks.

Also we consider political aspects:
Northrop Grumman had been embroiled in a number of fraud cases relating to the B-2 in the late 80s, and gave a senator's wife the clap via male escorts in a attempt to get support for the YF-23. Right around the time the JSF program was starting tests they got hit with another case where they'd been overcharging something like $100 million dollars for every B-2.

Boeing was suing the US government in a inherited lawsuit over the cancellation of the McD A-12 Avenger II that continued until 2014, which had been killed in 1990 by Dick Cheney because "no one could tell me how much the program was going to cost, even just through the full scale development phase, or when it would be available. And data that had been presented at one point a few months ago turned out to be invalid and inaccurate." Also at the same time POGO was flipping it's shit about cost overruns on the Super Hornet as I recall, also canted pylons lol.

Meanwhile, Lockheed had delivered the YF-22 without giving a politician's wife the clap and had won the ATF program.

So pretend you're on the selection committee back then. Boeing is insisting that if you just give them another chance they'll fix the problems with the X-32 and the next prototypes will be great, honest, while Lockheed has pretty much done fine and has delivered prototypes that meet requirements and are pretty much the same as what they want to make.

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>>118189
thats a very level headed summary of about 30 years of fighter aircraft development, thanks for posting even it was just pasta.
i'd lake to add that boeing got into the X-32 game mainly to get government freemoney to help develop the composite materials they were planning to use to make the 787 more lightweight. boeing got what they wanted out of the X-32/X-35 competition, the boeing entry was never seriously intended to develop to a fighter aircraft, but to make it look like they were working towards that end enough to get the composites development money for free. the government got to keep lockheed's feet to the fire with a little competition in exchange, it was a good deal all around as the government will eventually collect the X-32 money back in income taxes from boeing and boeing workers who would have otherwise been displaced by overseas aircraft manufacturing.

>>118189
>>118189
>.The X-32 prototype was substantially different from what would have been produced, the X-35 was not.

Honestly this. They had engine problems during demonstrations as well, leading them to remove the front portion of the air intake in order to demonstrate vertical lift. Pic related.

The whole point of the X-32 and X-35 were to *demonstrate* that they had the basics down. Boeing's demonstrator didn't look like what they were proposing, and it didn't perform well w/o modifications, and that was a giant hit against them.

At this point, if anyone at the DoD had balls, they'd tell LockMart to either fix their shit at zero cost to the government or we're going to nationalize the entire program and charge the lot of them with fraud.

Of course, that's assuming this money is actually going to the F-35 project and not being laundered and funneled back out to black-budget fuckery.

>>118390
>that's assuming this money is actually going to the F-35 project and not being laundered and funneled back out to black-budget fuckery.
you whats kind of ridiculous is that the program itself is so enormously large and complex that no one individual will ever know the answer to that question. you'd need to give a large team of people PhDs in aeronautical accounting years just to get an estimate.

>Crashing the ship
Good
that's why I voted for Hilldog, because I knew she'd end this failed experiment known as the USA and in the chaos I'd get to shoot minorities, weak cuck progressives and their dogs and brown people

Make America Great Again via Balkanization, if that fails nazification

>>117896
>and their dogs

ATF detected.

>>117898
Acid is gonna get demoted if he doesn't stop another terror plot that he created.

>be teacher
>totally Trump's fault you're in the worst possible career field in cash-strapped MI, where the Party-in-Power thrives off the idiocy of the masses, so it's a no-brainer for them to cut the education budget time and again
>oh wait, you almost forgot that you're in a position to perpetuate the hate

http://www.thetimesnews.com/opinion/20180612/editorial-national-debt-must-be-main-topic-in-2020


Retiring Starbucks executive Howard Schultz’s interest in a 2020 presidential bid made national headlines because of his strong and unexpected focus on fiscal responsibility. To date, Schultz’s national profile mostly reflected his aggressive advocacy of progressive social causes. But in an interview with CNBC, the Seattle billionaire expressed disbelief at how many Democrats had eagerly embraced a government takeover of health care and a federal full-employment jobs program without first answering this basic question: “How are we going to pay for these things?” He went on to say, “I think the greatest threat domestically to the country is this $21 trillion debt hanging over … America and future generations.”

Hallelujah. Whether or not Donald Trump has soured you on the idea of the ultra-wealthy seeking the Oval Office, rational Americans should welcome the possibility that fiscal conservatism emerges as a key issue in 2020. Unless responsible adults begin to step up, disaster looms. The Congressional Budget Office predicts annual federal budget deficits of $1 trillion or more will become the new norm by 2020, leading the already-staggering national debt to reach $33 trillion in a decade. Meanwhile, the amount of money the federal government spends just to service the national debt is on pace to go from $263 billion in 2017 to $1.05 trillion in 2028 — at which point it would dwarf annual military spending or the yearly Medicare budget.

Here’s the easiest way to grasp how risky this is: Imagine if your household was on track to have to spend 20 percent of its income just to make minimum payments on your credit cards — and yet family members kept adding new charges. That’s just what Congress did with its February budget deal, which included the single largest spending increase since the massive stimulus bill was passed in 2009 to limit the pain of the Great Recession.

Traditional Republican claims to care about fiscal conservatism have been annihilated by the actions of President Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The party that crowed after it forced the Obama administration to accept a 2011 law mandating a long-term budget “sequester” containing domestic and defense spending happily voted for a budget that exceeded the spending caps by nearly $300 billion.

But the irresponsibility of the GOP’s ramping up spending while also adopting big tax cuts is paralleled by Democrats’ increasing unanimity that government should provide more and more freebies. Instead of shoring up the most basic government safety-net program — the deeply underfunded Social Security system — they also want not just health

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>>118260
>A military convoy arrived in Salisbury last year
>last year
I honestly just gave a double-take to what I copied in this thread from news article. Needless to say I'm impressed, so very much impressed on level of self-awareness of people writing this story.

http://www.radio.cz/en/section/news/czech-president-says-nerve-agent-novichok-was-produced-in-the-country

>Czech president Miloš Zeman has said the country produced the novichok nerve agent for testing but it was then destroyed.

http://praguemonitor.com/2018/04/27/czech-intelligence-works-out-report-novichok-zeman

>The Czech counter-intelligence service BIS has worked out a report that President Milos Zeman ordered on whether the Novichok nerve agent was developed or stored in the country, BIS spokesman Ladislav Sticha told CTK on Thursday.

Apparently, every other country knows what this "top secret Russian" nerve agent is, how to produce it and store, which isn't surprize by any measure since know-how for it has been openly cited by many sources. What is interesting, though, is that, supposedly, OPCW members are not to produce or store any chemical weapons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_Weapons_Convention

Actually, it looks like a post-modern type loyalty-securing strategy. If you are siding with Britain or any other major Western power, you are obliged, apparently, to believe everything they say and do everything they want, even if it is nonsensical, suicidal or physically impossible. We're not running short on bullshit anyway, there's always something, any day of the week.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/world/europe/opcw-salisbury-novichok-skripal.html

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>>118316
>look mommy i posted it again!

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-russia-chemicalweapons-german/wests-knowledge-of-novichok-came-from-sample-secured-in-1990s-report-idUSKCN1IH2HC

>In a joint report, German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the weekly Die Zeit and broadcasters NDR and WDR said Germany’s BND spy agency had secured the sample of the Novichok nerve agent from a Russian scientist.

>The sample was analyzed in Sweden and the chemical formula was given to the German government and military, the report cited sources as saying. Western countries used the information to help develop countermeasures.

On the long list of countries who stole Russian chemical warfare secrets in the past, there's at least two new names now. That, of course, adds to the early claims that there's only one country capable of producing it. As history demonstrates, this is a normal situation for any imperialistic western country - if you give them a chance of reconciliation, they will plunder your technologies and resources, and use them against you.

But wait, what's this? We found the PROOFS! Russia does produce Novichok!

https://themoscowtimes.com/news/russian-businessman-releases-novichok-line-cooking-oil-61227

>“I liked this product very much and couldn’t find it anywhere in stores, so I decided to make it myself,” Yakushev said in a YouTube video posted on Thursday.

>The Novichok oil will be marketed under the motto “products for a long life,” together with a logo bearing KGB insignia.

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http://news.met.police.uk/news/ongoing-investigation-into-incident-in-salisbury-on-4-march-309256

>Meanwhile staff from the national CT network, along with colleagues seconded from five forces including specialists in image identification, have now viewed over 4,000 hours of CCTV footage.

Well, this is pretty funny statistic considering that nobody ever saw the people who did this and the cameras are placed all over the town.

>Timeline of events (all times approximate)

Well, they can at least say they know the events with a precision of 1 meter, 1 second and 1 person. You can just go on Google Street View and observe how thoroughly the city is recorded for everybody's convenience.

Location filmed at >>118260.
https://www.google.ru/maps/@51.0697418,-1.7976044,3a,83.9y,283.6h,91.71t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sT8FGyLEtAv3kPvlQwD_tdA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Well, camera spotting is one of my secondary habits when I stop by somewhere. Look to the pole on the left, there's CCTV sign. Then look across the bridge. Then go through the tunnel in the building and look at the ceiling. Then watch to the left at the exit. These cameras seem to be brand new - if you compare the shots from June 2017 and September, they are replaced from old box-like versions.

>>118361
Try out something new.

https://youtu.be/Q3MomxNHnUA?t=285

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj-VZB0ZdEA
>but muh Russian buks
>but muh 323 muh 312 blub-lub-blub

Here's the funny thing about "investigation" - people are concentrated on the things that are present on the footage. On the other hand, they probably should have focused in the other things that aren't present - namely, the rest of the "convoy" aside from the truck itself. Or maybe about fully operational Ukrainian AA defence system deployed in the region.

https://ru.slovoidilo.ua/news/3659/2014-07-12/sily-pvo-ukrainy-pereshli-v-polnuyu-boevuyu-gotovnost.html

>The air defense forces of Ukraine went into full combat readiness
July 12, 2014

>As you know, despite the promise of NSDCU Secretary Andrey Parubiya to destroy Russian helicopters at the Ukrainian border, Russian military helicopters continue to violate Ukraine's airspace

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>>118362
pot calling the kettle black indeed.

Do you ever experience cognitive dissidence, mr. war crimes denier?

https://sputniknews.com/world/201805181064582313-vyshinsky-arrest-condemnation/

>On order of a court in Ukraine's city of Kherson, Kirill Vyshinsky has been arrested for 60 days without bail on charges of “treason” and for supporting the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics in Ukraine’s southeast.

>Independent Polish journalist Stanislaw Remuszko said that freedom of speech is the backbone of democracy and the most important thing in life.

>”I have been working as a journalist for more than 40 years now and I believe that expressing one’s mind, even if it differs from that of the powers-that-be, is our sacred right. Saying only what the government wants to hear has nothing to do with free speech. If they arrested Kirill Vyshinsky only because he said things Ukrianian authorities don’t like, then he had every right to do so and is not to be punished, let alone arrested, for doing that,” Remuszko said.

The funny part though, you won't find any publications in the West about this treacherous breach of human rights. Because freedom of press is a concept of fiction.

https://cpj.org/2018/05/ukraine-extends-ban-on-russian-news-agencies-journ.php

>The decree, which Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed on May 14, prolongs measures taken last year against Russian media companies-- including Rossiya Segodnya (Russia Today), Sputnik, VGTRK, NTV, REN TV, TNT, OTR and others - that restricted or suspended their access to Ukrainian telecommunications networks. The decree also barred the outlets' journalists from entering Ukraine for the next three years and froze any assets that they had in the country.

If the freedom of speech, freedom of press and other freedoms can be throttled as it fits to interests of ruling class, they are not freedoms at all.

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>>118366
>look mommy i posted it again!

>Trumpfan

Proof? (you have none)

Ban assault faggots.

May 11th: A Chinese sate-owned construction company loans $500 million to a Indonesian construction project that has Trump properties involved.

May 13th: TOO MANY JOBS IN CHINA LOST!
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/15/17355202/trump-zte-indonesia-lido-city

>>118167
indeed.

>According to Mike Minerva, a Tallahassee public defender and member of the defense team, a pre-trial plea bargain was negotiated in which Bundy would plead guilty to killing Levy, Bowman and Leach in exchange for a firm 75-year prison sentence. Prosecutors were amenable to a deal, by one account, because "prospects of losing at trial were very good." Bundy, on the other hand, saw the plea deal not only as a means of avoiding the death penalty, but also as a "tactical move": he could enter his plea, then wait a few years for evidence to disintegrate or become lost and for witnesses to die, move on, or retract their testimony. Once the case against him had deteriorated beyond repair, he could file a post-conviction motion to set aside the plea and secure an acquittal.

Any hidden memes in this pic?

>>118196
bundy was a law student too. imagine going to law school because you're planning on murdering people and you want to know how to beat the prosecution. criminal masterminds! well not really, but close.
i wonder how many people go to law school with the intention of committing crimes and using their knowledge of the law to get away with it. i live only a mile from a law school. thank god i'm armed to the teeth.

  >check out this incredibly smarmy and hate filled piece of "objective journalism" by podunk kovac of macon, ga. this is the type of stuff that make you wonder if SoL really could ever get a fair shake from the rural georgia county legal system with the way everyone down there goes into hysterics if something bad happens to a white girl. people used to make fun of that kind of bullshit and of halfwitted yellow journalism, but these days anything goes
>you can send email to the article's author at jkovac@macon.com

Confessed killer in Lauren Giddings dismemberment murder sues lawyer for malpractice
The contentious-yet-tenuous legal wranglings of Stephen McDaniel continue to confound and hassle some of the very people who helped keep him off death row.

A month after graduating from law school in 2011, McDaniel broke into the apartment of Lauren Giddings, his next-door neighbor and Mercer University law school classmate, then strangled her and cut up her body.

In 2014, McDaniel, now 32, pleaded guilty and described in open court his version of how Giddings was slain. Earlier this year, though, in a last-ditch form of appeal that he filed from prison, McDaniel claimed that the police and prosecutors — and his own lawyers — may have wronged him.

Then last Wednesday, on what would have been Giddings’ 34th birthday, McDaniel, in a handwritten civil filing claiming legal malpractice, sued one of his former defense attorneys for upward of $200,000. McDaniel’s lawsuit contends that Macon lawyer Floyd Buford mishandled a wrongful-death lawsuit that Giddings’ parents filed against McDaniel after the killing.

McDaniel, serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole, now claims that Buford settled the wrongful-death claim against McDaniel’s wishes. Under the settlement, McDaniel, should he ever earn any money, would owe the Giddings family up to $80 million.

But McDaniel contends there was an offer to settle, one that Buford ignored, that would have imposed no financial sanctions and required only that McDaniel never earn any money from a book about the murder, if he chose to write one.

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