It's been two weeks since an announcement was imminent, are we really gonna get edged like this for the third time? I already know Northrop Grumman is gonna win, I just wanna get it done and over with so they can officially start working on it.
>>64405737It would be surprising to me if a multi billion dollar procurement program gets a contract awarded during the government shutdown. A lot of the DoD functionaries who do the legwork for these things probably aren’t working right now, and more importantly most of the money to actually fund the contract would have to come from the FY2026 budget. Not having passed said budget is why the government is shutdown. Without whatever funding F/A-XX ends up with in the final budget, $09.-1.4 billion based on the House and Senate proposals from the summer respectively they only have whatever top up money they got from OBBB, which isn’t enough. With the Senate number I think the combined total for the year is ~$2.1 billion since iirc the program got about $700 million as a one time top up from that bill. F-47 is funded to over $3 billion this year for comparison, but that program is also technically more ambitious and will be much more expensive per unit while possibly having a much smaller buy. F/A-XX is less ambitious as the Navy needs to replace more airframes so needs to buy more than the Air Forces’s public ~200 target.
following defense news teaches you to ignore 99.9% of what the government says and disregard 100% of their self imposed deadlines/schedules
>>64405977The F-47 and B-21 are ahead of schedule though
>>64405905>we You're brown
>>64405999ahead of schedule is by definition not adhering to the schedulenot saying everything is inefficient just saying its all inaccurate either by accident or by design
>>64405737They already revealed its the YF-23 with the 23 crossed out in chalk.
>>64405905Taiwan is the true government and west tawain is illegitimate.
>>64405737trump is too busy shutting down critIcal infastructure in his home state to announce anything cool. he also is busy with insider trading/crashing the market
>>64406168When will the pro reunification party in West taiwan secure victory? Taiwan seems much more for reunification, seeing as the kmt got a third of the vote :)
lol west taiwan schilling.
>>64407593They roll over laughing over the side.
>>64406013Xi is a pooh bear faggot.Also no don't expect the 80s the US is way more dominant now. Sorry chang, chinese century never.
>>64406022Lol fuck
>>64406022Pretty based I think
Ah yes west taiwan is so mighty lol.
>>64408792That's the Boeing one retard
no rare earth and no honest engine = no 6th geninb4>rare is not r..they are>the japafter 10 years of extreme investment in tech and nuking their ocean floor, still importing 60% of light REE from China and 100% of heavy REE. There is no alternative.>but what if -it won't.
>>64407593That's a training issue. Rough Rider was a stress test for the CSGs in high A2D2 environments. We learned that the ASBM spam defense the Chinese are counting on to take out US flattops is laughably ineffective since even in very restricted waters the CVN can easily maneuver outside the max slant range of the incoming ordnance. However, that's a ships company thing, not an airwing thing, so it wasn't clear to the air wing that Condition One Air Warning meant the ship might make radical maneuvers. Therefore they were still plane spotting during the Air Warning and not chocked and Chained. Since then the Warning has been changed to specify if it includes ASBMs or not, as that's the only Air Warning threat which requires the carrier to make deep heeling maneuvers at flank bell. The upshot being the PLA planned almost their entire season denial strategy on a platform we learned can be defeated by the devious Yankee Air Pirate tactic known as "turning"
>>64408885posting this chart just shows you're a delusional chinkshill
>>64409891Lockmart and friends were added to the UEL in Feb 2023. So uhh, how are they still pumping out 160 F-35s and 2000 AMRAAMS in 2025 when they've been cut off for 2 years?
>>64408885What's the chinese equivalent of "oy vey"?
>>64409906tofu planes with no shit radars and 35% readiness rate. The REE ban was in 2025. They were not cut off in 2023.
This is the type of intelligence you are arguing with anon
>>64410013I misspoke. It's 30% LMAO.>AIslop95% of the US GDP growth is AI. It cannot be slop!
>>64405737bro is talking about a weapon like it's the next Halo
>>644100351245 multiplied by 0.3 is still 373 full mission capable fifth gen "fighter".
>>64410552Might as well, right? Not like I have any control over it.
>>64405886You're probably right. Votes are going nowhere.
