ARES also blew the call on B5's article. They claim B5 put O&S under PAUC. In fact the chart shows O&S under Life Cycle Costs - exactly where it belongs.Note that this was posted in my comments section and I chose to give it added prominence. This is getting good. Want to read even more interesting stuff? Go here to follow the conversation at BlackFive!
Be nice if they'd learn to read a chart before they go making unsubstantiated claims. Make's 'em look pretty foolish.
Yes.
You read that right.
BlackFive channeled the opposition into an area of his choosing and with the natural aggressiveness of a team of highly skilled Infantrymen, initiated contact.
The oppositions response was...as expected...lacking.
Required reading for this weekend is this post of BlackFive's answer to questions regarding the F-35's cost....and then this post on ARES seeking to debunk it.
Quite simply....ARES post ran into an L-Shaped Ambush and is no longer combat effective.
Not a clue what the article is really on about, I tend to ignore these little blogosphere infights, but I do appreciate a good ambush diagram ;).
ReplyDeletehey that's a classic.
ReplyDeleteand the good thing about this is that you have to be a real boob to stumble into an L-shaped ambush (unless you're in a jungle setting at least)...
ARES also blew the call on B5's article. They claim B5 put O&S under PAUC. In fact the chart shows O&S under Life Cycle Costs - exactly where it belongs.
ReplyDeleteBe nice if they'd learn to read a chart before they go making unsubstantiated claims. Make's 'em look pretty foolish.
I guess I ought to get my stuff together too - ARES claims B5 has O&S under APUC (not PUAC). For anyone who can read the chart, it is clearly listed under Life Cycle Costs.
ReplyDeleteAnd how about this little beauty:
"The average procurement unit cost for the USAF F-35A, over the planned 1,763-aircraft run, is about $125 million."
Obviously the "average procurement unit cost" isn't the URF (it is APUC). This is exactly what the B5 post talked about. Throwing around numbers without any real context. Notice that ARES doesn't tell you what is included in the "average procurement unit cost". The chart will.
Funny, but after ARES sniffs with disdain at the B5 post, it gets it wrong as concerns where O&S are place and then does EXACTLY what the B5 post warns about.
you do know you're feeding the beast in me! time to move all this to the top of the blog!
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