Originally Posted by
SASless
Why "suspicious"?
In your mind and ,Sultan's ,who as we all know likes nothing with "Sikorsky" labels afixed to it.
SASless,
So what is your theory for why the SB>1 team is "delayed"?
Currently the choices are as follows;
A) Major technical issues with scaling up the X-2 technology (conspiracy theorieists favorite). But that would mean some very smart people in both the government and Boeing would either have been fooled by Sikorsky or complicit in hiding evidence that X-2 technology was flawed.
B) Sikorsky and Boeing mismanaged the Defiant program, either by under funding it, wasting resources, selecting inadequate suppliers, or a combination of the above. This is the Defiant Program management claim, but their wording is "Things didn't go as quickly as we would have liked". Hard to believe the two biggest defense contractors in the US are that inept.
C) Intentional program delay by Sikorsky and Boeing management to insure continued sales of their existing products to the DOD. Another conspiracy theorists favorite.
D) ?????
Maybe we can have a vote?
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