US Navy Swaps UCLASS for Carrier-Based Aerial-Refueling System???

a reply to: anzha

The US Navy CNO wants the CBARS asap. Even yesterday.

oh, well, frak. CBARS has been pulled into an OSD review:

breakingdefense.com...

On the positive side, the US Navy, assuming CBARS survives, has stated it will be a tighter ship than the UCLASS effort:

news.usni.org...

a reply to: anzha

Me too! Me too!

The US Navy is changing CBARS to the RAQ-25 Stingray.

news.usni.org...

a reply to: anzha

a reply to: anzha

Whatever happened to building a pilotless C-2 greyhound filled with Jet-A....

And the OSD will now have to decide if the CBARS/RAQ-25 Stingray will require a new competition.

www.nationaldefensemagazine.org...

a reply to: anzha

Of course it will. The requirements are totally different.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Oh, I would think so, but apparently some are saying they don't need to reinvent the wheel.

I didn't think they got that far though.

a reply to: anzha

They hadn't started the comp yet, but the RFP was set.

The old fart that decided to call it Stingray, (probably an Admiral!) must have watched this as a child.

LOL

originally posted by: BASSPLYR
a reply to: Zaphod58

OK what about "Rodger?" Anybody know where that came from?

The British. The guy saying 'roger' is actually saying something tasteless in reply.

eta: actually, it seems it's a Shelta word, so it's more my ancestry, the Brits just stole it.

a reply to: Zaphod58

This feels kind of dirty to say, but...

Remember Sweetman said Boeing has 'won' the UCLASS with its Cyberweapon drone? (whatever the acronym they prefer for hacking enemy systems).

It made me go 'hmmm' thinking maybe the reason the comment about needing to rerun the competition was because, well, Boeing really did already win it?

Ok, I feel dirty for sharing a thought that put Sweetman in a good light.

I'll go take a shower to get clean.

a reply to: anzha

From RAQ-25 to MQ-XX:

news.usni.org...

a reply to: anzha

Sweetman, from rumors around the net is going to NG.

a reply to: Zaphod58

o.O

As in WORKING there?!

a reply to: anzha

I haven't seen any official comment about it but there have been several comments on articles of his to the effect of "Good luck at NG".

a reply to: Zaphod58

I have no words...

a reply to: anzha

Part of me has been going Thank God, and the other part has been going, I had no idea they were so desperate.

He'll fit right in though. Look at all the pro Northrop stuff he's posted through the years while bashing pretty much everyone else.

It just occurred to me. If he does go to NG does that mean he has to like the F-35 now, since they make the center fuselage?

a reply to: Zaphod58

Heh. He'll probably smack talk all the parts of the jet not built by NG.