Washington Examiner: Pentagon spends about $ 58 billion on failed projects

At least $ 58 billion has been spent by the Pentagon over the past two decades to create the latest weapons systems, which in the end were never implemented, writes Washington Examiner with reference to a report by the US Department of Defense.

It is reported that the money was spent on the 23 failure of the project, starting with the 1973 year.

“The biggest failure was the Future Combat Systems (Future Combat System), which accounted for more than 20 billion dollars of total wasted funds. Also among the failures is the RAH-66 Comanche helicopter, in which 9,8 billion dollars have been invested, ”the article reads. Look.

At the same time, military officials said that these projects could not be completely failed, since the technologies developed within their framework may be in demand in the future.

The report notes that “many of these programs have gone far ahead in their development” before decisions were made to discontinue their funding.

Among other disappointments, the publication calls the NPOESS satellite, “ate” $ 3,7 billion, and the presidential helicopter VH-71 for $ 2,7 billion.

Comments

[parusnik]

Roughly speaking, they are also stealing from them, but more cunningly ...

[79807420129]

Quote: parusnik

Roughly speaking, they also steal, but more cunningly.

Aw, Bulk, where are you?

[Hunt]

Why do we need to count their money ??? You need to deal with your problems. And the theft of money in the field of state defense orders must be equated with treason! In this sphere, the repressive functions of the State must be applied in all their glory! And these, they’ll even print themselves!

[Urfin]

Quote: Hunter

Why do we need to count their money ???

How tired of such statements ... First, they themselves will be brought to us. Secondly, they are at least competitors to us (likely opponents). Therefore, one must know their power and effectiveness of their state apparatus and economy. The higher their corruption, the calmer I am.

[GSH-18]

Quote: Urfin

The higher their corruption, the calmer I am.

Supporter of the concept of containment?

[Dembel77]

Washington Examiner: Pentagon Spends About $ 58 Billion On Failed Projects

What a trifle! And how nice to read! Learn how to do it!

[lis-ik]

Everybody has failed projects, and before we flatter, let's remember the whole series of Boreyevs, the boats themselves cannot be called failures, but the question with the Bulava is, because a strategist with a dubious missile cannot be considered successful. As for PAKFA and T-14, there are also more questions than answers, there is simply no money and we all see how the timing and quantity are shifting and shifting, so it's better to count your money and think. And it is mainly the big officials who are to blame for this, lobbying for the interests of certain corporations, that would be here to calculate how much they "failed" the country.

[GSH-18]

Quote: Dembel 77

What a trifle! And how nice to read! Learn how to do it!

You should not do this. God forbid our thieves learn this way!

[INVESTOR]

At the same time, military officials said that these projects could not be completely failed, since the technologies developed within their framework may be in demand in the future.

Correctly consider.

[olhon]

Normally sawing so ....

[dorz]

$ 58 billion spent by the Pentagon

For them it’s a penny, that is, cents). The Pentagon spends about $ 100 billion annually on the purchase of new equipment.

[jjj]

A trifle, but someone specifically pleased

[GSH-18]

Quote: olhon

Normally sawing so ....

Fine. But there is no limit to perfection! Let us wish them success and new records.

[AID.S]

We would have their problems .. only, from the 73rd, it's more than 40 years old .....

[Spartanez300]

But they consider themselves the smartest, greatest nation. Only this is a nation of evil degenerates.

[gridasov]

And they are the smartest nation! Their corruption is radically different from the Russian one. They have much easy access to loans, they have a very wide scale of capitalization of private business. It is much more convenient for them not to steal and live within the framework of the laws. At the state level, they are able to print any amount of "paper" and create an investment mechanism that does not affect devaluation, inflation, deflation, or other phenomena. At the same time, each expressing opinion uses his own yardstick and applies to their rules and conditions. This is nonsense! Moreover, they will buy anyone with brains and buy the same patriotism along with the top-level officials of any country. Therefore, the children of all these leaders live in the States, and their dads are working for the good of not Russia, that's for sure.

[AVA77]

I wonder how much is your patriotism? (how many greens are for the Soul of a patriot?)

[Altona]

All kinds of network-centric AI dronopeople, foil destroyers with inoperative engines and 75-megawatt "invisible" generators, littoral ships and inoperative aircraft carriers, and other similar dregs. In addition, the Pentagon cannot find from 3 to 8 trillion dollars, which apparently have been successfully stolen, and part of this money goes to support terrorism in the Middle East.

[Vladimir 38]

Well done partners, if they continue in the same spirit, they will not stay long ...

[Primipilus]

Yet for them it is a little money.

[Damir]

Yes!!!! scale .... our still train and train ....

[japs]

Look for information on the missing trillion green presidents from 2010 to 2014 received for oil and gas sold over a hill. Then talk about ours ...

[wandlitz]

IMHO. So this is wonderful. Let them spend it.
Spending amers finance without return, we only +.

[Mountain shooter]

Since among the failed hegemons do not consider either the "quasi-invisible F-117", or the wunderwaffe Fu 35, or "Zamvolt", not counting small splashes - the score, IMHO, can be multiplied by 10. This speaks of the DEGRADATION of the engineering school of the American military industrial complex. The result of the action of "effective managers" of the MBI school. We also got a lot of them, but they did not reach a critical mass.

[spirit]

And what are they failing then? Some were in service, others accept) I think Shoigu would not refuse now from the "failed" Zamvolt off the coast of Syria as part of our aug)

[voyaka uh]

I can not agree with you.
Technological gap between the USA and Russia
only growing. This applies to computers, electronics, communications, technology
new materials.
Although Russia, we must pay tribute, and is making efforts to reduce.

And Future Combat Systems wasn't that bad. A "Comanche"
just great. They just fell under the Obama military cuts
budget, and the money spent on research and development disappeared.

F-117 worked wonderfully in wars. F-35 promises to be one of the best aircraft
coming decades. Zumvolt is all right.

Network-centric systems are deployed in troops. Scout drones are constantly in the air.
Shock UAVs have already shot several thousand fighters.

[Tusv]

Quote: voyaka uh

F-35 promises to be one of the best aircraft
coming decades.

It promises magically for young girls. Tolley is our signalman. Communication without marriage and a point. By the way, Wi fi for a hundred is not a problem for a long time

[Voyager]

Something a bunch of incoherent and unreasonable mass, to be honest. If my memory serves me right, the Comanche program was closed long before Obama arrived.

Quote: voyaka uh

F-35 promises to be one of the best aircraft
coming decades.

Who promises? Based on what data?

Quote: voyaka uh

Shock UAVs have already shot several thousand fighters.

Where does the data come from?

[rasputin17]

The Pentagon has spent at least $ 58 billion over the past two decades on the creation of the latest weapons systems, which in the end were never implemented.

And where does the implementation? The main loot to pull out and saw !! And you can fight through the media !!

[Renat]

Wherever they spend money, unfortunately, not the ordinary Amer taxpayer pays for all this, but the whole world, planted on a green needle.

[Vladimir61]

Putin is to blame!

[Retvizan 8]

They do not care, they still draw for themselves!

[Voyager]

There are no failed projects. With a competent approach, any failure turns into another set of experience, knowledge and technology that goes into a common piggy bank.

[Blackmokona]

Less than 0.1% of the military budget over the years. Do they choose nastrodamusy projects there?

[rotmistr60]

The Pentagon spent $ 58 billion over the past two decades on the creation of the latest weapons systems, which in the end were never implemented

Yes, and the flag in their hands on this path. What turned out to be a failure will certainly not be used against us.

[Altona]

Quote: voyaka uh

Technological gap between the USA and Russia
only growing. This applies to computers, electronics, communications, technology
new materials.
Although Russia, we must pay tribute, and is making efforts to reduce.

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If we put technocrats in the Government and remove the Kudringes, Siluanovs, Ulyukayevs, Medveblads, or rather send them to you, to their historical homeland, then our entire "huge technological gap" will be overcome in 5 years, of course, provided that the profession of engineer and scientist is popularized.

[voyaka uh]

"Of course, subject to the popularization of the profession of engineer and scientist." ////

The popularization of these professions is determined by wages.
High salaries can only be given by the private sector.
While in Russia 70% of large enterprises are state-owned, young people
they will not go to either engineers or scientists.
In Israel, a young man with a bachelor's degree (junior engineer)
in the field of programming, electronics or precision mechanics
immediately after college or college can get a high salary.
Hundreds of small and medium-sized firms in the field of high technology are willing to accept them.

"or rather to send to you, to their historical homeland" ///

And we take it with pleasure. And the Americans willingly take both Russian and Jews.

[rotmistr60]

For Altona
I will support you. Here are just a popularization of the engineering profession, if it happens, it will not be soon. We now have lawyers and managers who are a dime a dozen and who no one needs. It is good that there are still scientists of the old generation who have not fled to the west and defy liberal ideology, but continue to work for the good of the country (though they didn’t get well for that kind of money, as in Soviet times).

[kaserog]

Quote: voyaka uh

e UAVs have already shot several thousand fighters.

and much more civilians
and fu117 and did not fight with normal air defense

[Blackmokona]

S-125 and S-200 are not normal air defense for those years?

[Voyager]

Outdated at that time. F-117 was used in the 90s, the S-300 has been in service since the 80s.

[Tusv]

S-125 and S-200 are not normal air defense for those years?

Deprecated in the mid 80s. S-125 HARMs are shot in dashes, but there were no two hundred in Yugoslavia and Iraq

[Blackmokona]

Normal and outdated air defense are two different things. Or is the S-300 also not normal air defense, since there is an S-400?
It certainly didn’t, like the Iraqi army was well equipped with the MiG-29 in 1991. Isn't the S-200 mined?

[Voyager]

Well, everything is relative and can be learned by comparison. Secondary and in general, its obsolete air defense can continue to perform its tasks. But in this case, the use of air defense against the newest at that time F-117 is considered, the specifics of which cannot be caught by the same air defense. Consequently, it is customary to respond to the newest "action" with the newest "opposition", then they cover each other normally.

[japs]

Whatever one may say, but they are far from our "sawers", both in the military and in the oil and gas sphere. Chubais rules.

[Altona]

Quote: voyaka uh

And we take it with pleasure. And the Americans willingly take both Russian and Jews.

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I doubt the mental abilities of Mr. Medvedev and Ulyukaev, that's for sure. As for wages, the power is not in the money. For example, I have enough of my 25 thousand in the province and I live much better than the average Muscovite with 70 thousand, although our prices are higher than in Moscow (they still bring them from Moscow). In general, not one who has a lot of wealth is rich, but who has enough.

[Wrangel Island]

Moscow spent no less on frankly disastrous and harmful projects for Russia. It is enough to recall the money invested by Moscow in: Ukraine, Jordan, Cyprus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, non-combatant frigates 22350 and much more.

[fa2998]

Quote: Damir

Yes!!!! scale .... our still train and train ....

It’s just that they at least have a similar report, but we never counted anything! The authorities acknowledge that the taxpayers’s money wasted, and our Russian soul is wide, state money means nobody’s.
And let's at least estimate (you can't even remember everything) starting with the "lunar" rocket N-1, "Energia", "Buran", orbital
new combat systems (even a dummy was launched) .And Soviet aircraft carriers sailed to Asia at the price of metal, and strategic bombers starting with the "hundred", M-50, M-4, etc. (and a classmate Tu-95 has been flying). And how many decades our scientists fooled the party boss with laser weapons - everything was in vain! Tens of thousands of people worked, tens of billion rubles were spent (maybe the Soviet ruble / dollar exchange rate can be recalled) Yes, the experience (albeit unsuccessful) was still obtained, but the United States also had the same experience !
And yet, how MUCH Russia holds in the US Treasury bonds something 100 billion. $ -means only one Russia has already doubled ALL losses that are indicated in the report. There is a reserve of US gunsmiths, there will be little money, we will throw it up!

[Voyager]

Quote: fa2998

Their authorities recognize that taxpayer money wasted

And then what, does this recognition gain some development or not? In the end, how is it different from our situation? Yes, nothing.

[2014ya.ru]

In general, on the drum, what they got past the ticket office there!

[ghby]

Quote: voyaka uh

This applies to computers, electronics, communications,

In the civilian sector, it’s possible.

Quote: voyaka uh

Technology
new materials.

but here I do not agree. Well, and besides, even if there is a lag in computers, electronics and communications, this is not a reason to draw the following conclusion

Quote: voyaka uh

Technological gap between the USA and Russia
only growing.

for technology is not only computers, electronics, communications, this is just one of the elements by which we do not have such a big lag in the military-industrial complex.

[Samoyed]

Few facts to draw rigorous conclusions. How many engineers on these "failed" projects have gained experience, patents, .... The technique is developing so rapidly because followers stand on the shoulders of their predecessors. And they have better technology transfer to civilians than in Russia.
Journalist minus for emotions.

[ghby]

Quote: rotmistr60

Here are just a popularization of the engineering profession, if it happens, it will not be soon. We now have lawyers and managers who are a dime a dozen and who no one needs.

Popularization of the profession of engineer is a little, take an interest in the competition for admission to TPU.

[Signore Tomato]

And how many green lards did the Pentagon spend on projects such as ISIS, Ukraine, Libya? Only deer think that the Arab Spring turned out by itself.

[Altona]

Quote: Wrangel Island

Moscow spent no less on frankly disastrous and harmful projects for Russia. It is enough to recall the money invested by Moscow in: Ukraine, Jordan, Cyprus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, non-combatant frigates 22350 and much more.

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You don't even have to go far - 120 billion rubles for Skolkovo and 370 billion for Rusnano.

[dzerzhinsky]

For any country in the world, the loss of such an amount of money due to failed projects would be a disaster, but not for p * endos. Because only they have a printing press. As much as needed, so much stamped.

[Incvizitor]

FU 35 one of them just do not want to recognize.

[Filxnumx]

For forty years this is not a very large amount, so, pocket money for amers. As they say, "good health"

[gukoyan]

It is strange that the F-35 is silent ....

[Blackmokona]

So they adopted it, more than 200 aircraft were riveted, thousands more in order. All program requirements are met. Where is the failure here?