Oragus,
I haven't seen it yet, is it something I missed in the forum somewhere? If so direct me to it or post if you will concerning your last. It wouldn't surprise me though, going through the
ABRAMS issues I would find the USA didn't announce
FOC for the
M1A2 SEP 2 until
every unit that was
designated to receive that MBT got them.
That I know was posted in those pages on my last to include an Army Ref. discussing the
ongoing OPEVAL status concerning the
SEP 3. The Ref. was dated for last Dec. or Jan. I believe. I submitted a date change based on that and other articles for later this year I believe, I cannot say if Don changed it or not only because as he knows there's things happening at my end that has
GREATLY limited my free time and my ability to check what got in or changed as I submitted, something I in the past would've had done about a month ago or more.
The USA
ABRAMS program has really been a nonstop evolution of this tank. There have been problems with as with any other weapons platform, but, what I've seen to this point and after having followed both that and this next program, I feel the
USA (And it kills me to say this.
) has done a better job of overseeing the
ABRAMS Program then what I'm seeing concerning the
F-35. There are parallels between the two, the biggest being equip a unit and get them out there if you will from [b]USN jargon, "
To project power and show the flag." and that's what we did and do now. Case in point the
USMC using their
F-35B jets in limited combat along side the
USAF F-35A.
But my issue is as far as I can determine no one has died in the field using the
ABRAMS prior to
FOC. The
F-35 has had several incidents from it's development and close calls in loss of life and serious injuries. And no one needs to point out what I posted on already,
Japan did lose both a an
F-35A and
more importantly a pilot who had the
courage to call off an exercise when he initially realized his jet was having problems
potentially saving lives. We'll never know. It was found that his
F-35A was built here. And I don't think they ever recovered his body.
The
USAF and
NAVAIR (USN/USMC) have still
NOT DECLARED FOC for any F-35 variant. They are still in effect in
OPEVAL/IOC status. The
NAVAIR website has plenty of air assets in
FOC but, you won't see it for the
F-35B or
F-35C.
http://www.navair.navy.mil/ProductCo...d=fixed%20wing
And so it goes. As Suhiir knows, us Submariners are very anal about the
the ones we lost that are on "
Eternal Patrol",
USS THRESHER would be a game changer for us and later for
NASA as well. The next explains it better then I can right now.
https://navylive.dodlive.mil/2013/04...-uss-thresher/
Regards,
Pat
