Jenkkilän asehankinnat ovat epäonnistuneet usein. Syitä siihen on monia. Mutta poliittisen koneiston sekaantuminen ei varmastikaan helpota asiaa.
LCS-projekti kaikkinensa on ollut vähemmän onnistunut kuin mitä toivottiin. Kongressi kuitenkin tilaa niitä enemmän kuin laivasto haluaa. Samaan aikaan kongressi kuitenkin epää rahoituksen niiden varustamiselta, jolloin yhtäkään alusta ei ole saatu kunnolla operatiivisesti käyttöön.
Jotenkin mielipuolista. Haisee siltä, että halutaan lähinnä työllistää telakoita, mutta ei varsinaisesti mietitä, mitä rahoituksella saadaan lopulta ulos suorituskykyjen osalta.
Congress to buy 3 more LCS than the Navy needs, but gut funding for sensors that make them valuable
https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2...funding-for-sensors-that-makes-them-valuable/
The annual cutting spree has created a baffling cycle of inanity wherein Congress, unhappy with the development of the modules falling behind schedule, will cut funding and cause development to fall further behind schedule, according to a source familiar with the details of the impact of the cuts who spoke on background. All this while Congress continues to pump money into building ships without any of the mission packages having achieved what’s known as initial operating capability, meaning the equipment is ready to deploy in some capacity.
That means that with 15 of the currently funded 32 ships already delivered to the fleet, not one of them can deploy with a fully capable package of sensors for which the ship was built in the first place — a situation that doesn’t have a clear end state while the programs are caught in a sucking vortex of cuts and delays.
LCS-projekti kaikkinensa on ollut vähemmän onnistunut kuin mitä toivottiin. Kongressi kuitenkin tilaa niitä enemmän kuin laivasto haluaa. Samaan aikaan kongressi kuitenkin epää rahoituksen niiden varustamiselta, jolloin yhtäkään alusta ei ole saatu kunnolla operatiivisesti käyttöön.
Jotenkin mielipuolista. Haisee siltä, että halutaan lähinnä työllistää telakoita, mutta ei varsinaisesti mietitä, mitä rahoituksella saadaan lopulta ulos suorituskykyjen osalta.
Congress to buy 3 more LCS than the Navy needs, but gut funding for sensors that make them valuable
https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2...funding-for-sensors-that-makes-them-valuable/
The annual cutting spree has created a baffling cycle of inanity wherein Congress, unhappy with the development of the modules falling behind schedule, will cut funding and cause development to fall further behind schedule, according to a source familiar with the details of the impact of the cuts who spoke on background. All this while Congress continues to pump money into building ships without any of the mission packages having achieved what’s known as initial operating capability, meaning the equipment is ready to deploy in some capacity.
That means that with 15 of the currently funded 32 ships already delivered to the fleet, not one of them can deploy with a fully capable package of sensors for which the ship was built in the first place — a situation that doesn’t have a clear end state while the programs are caught in a sucking vortex of cuts and delays.
