Problems Stall Pentagon's New Fighting Vehicle (WP)

[Eugene]

Problems Stall Pentagon's New Fighting Vehicle
Costly Amphibious System Not Meeting Expectations

By Renae Merle
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 7, 2007; Page A01

After 10 years and $1.7 billion, this is what the Marines Corps got for its investment
in a new amphibious vehicle: A craft that breaks down about an average of once
every 4 1/2 hours, leaks and sometimes veers off course.

And for that, the contractor, General Dynamics of Falls Church, received $80 million
in bonuses.

The amphibious vehicle, which can be launched from a ship and then driven on land,
is so unreliable that the Pentagon is ditching plans to begin building the first of more
than 1,000 and wants to start over with seven new prototypes, which will take
nearly two years to deliver, at a cost of $22 million each.

The Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle is one of the Pentagon's largest weapons programs
and exemplifies the agency's struggle to afford a cadre of new mega-systems that are
larger and more complex, but also more trouble, than their predecessors.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/06/AR2007020601997.html

[ixion]

1. don't you just love how LIBERAL they are with our tax dollars

gee, what's a few billion here and there for pieces of crap that can't even get out of the dock. :grr: :puke: :eyes:

[ClintonTyree]

2. Quelle surprise.....

but let's increase the Pentagon's budget, by all means, let's give them MORE money to waste on useless shit that doesn't work. And then give the company that makes this worthless shit whopping bonuses to boot! :mad:

Make the freaking Pentagon accountable for EVERY CENT they get in taxpayer dollars. The most wasteful and entitled government program in the country: The Pentagon. And Bush wants to cut Medicare and education dollars so we can give these morons MORE money? :wtf: