Рамсфелд сделал вид, что не понял вопроса.
Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to uparmor our vehicles ?
Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to uparmor our vehicles ?
lxf wrote:Министр обороны вообще считает, что броня не сильно помогает, коль скоро, любой танк может подорваться на мине.You can have all the armor in the world on a tank and it can (still) be blown up
late_morning_girl wrote:Где-то я читала, что в первую мировую летчики сидели на сковородках...Kalifornian wrote:GreatPoo wrote:А наши бойцы еще с Афганистана на дверь бронежилет вешали. Но Рамсфельду виднее...
Помнится и в американцы во Вьетнаме летая на вертолетах ложили побольше металла под задницу.
А солдаты не спросили его какого хрена он сам тогда ездит на armored limo причем в местах которые мягко говоря поспокойнее Ирака.You can have all the armor in the world on a tank and it can (still) be blown up
The Republican Talk Radio Machine seemed caught off guard by the ferocity of the questioning he received in Kuwait City, especially the ballistic question from Spc. Thomas Wilson, a scout with a Tennessee National Guard unit, over the lack of adequate armor for guardsmen vehicles being deployed north into Iraq.
Limbaugh was mum when the story broke, and most of the rest said scarcely a word in the face of news reports that belayed their continuing assertions from their broadcast bully pulpits that all is well in Iraq but for the slanted reporting of a treacherous American liberal press. Come the next day, however, they had their talking points in line.(Question – do Limbaugh, and Hannity, et. al, get a fax each morning telling them what to say? An email? Or is it coincidence that they always are in lock step with the message of the day?)
Seems Spc. Wilson had been “coached” on his question by an embedded reporter from Chattanooga. Ipso facto, Limbaugh and crew declare, the question is null and void – the tainted fruit of the tree of the treacherous liberal media, the evil serpent in the garden of conservative paradise. Therefore the question can be disregarded, as can Rumsfeld’s stumbling response. Poor Donny was ambushed, you see, by an unfair question. Set up. A sitting duck, like an armorless Humvee sent down the Baghdad airport road. Blame it on the press.
"I don't know what the facts are but somebody's certainly going to sit down with him and find out what he knows that they may not know, and make sure he knows what they know that he may not know, and that's a good thing.", Mr. Rumsfeld told reporters yesterday.
MaxSt wrote:Еще цитата:"И доньт кнош шхат тхе фацтс аре бут сомебодыьс цертаинлы гоинг то сит дошн шитх хим анд финд оут шхат хе кношс тхат тхеы маы нот кнош, анд маке суре хе кношс шхат тхеы кнош тхат хе маы нот кнош, анд тхатьс а гоод тхинг.", Мр. Румсфелд толд репортерс ыестердаы.
lxf wrote:kron wrote:Рамсфелд часто говорит то что другие только думают но никогда вслух не скажут. Что, в обсчем то, похвально.
Русская народная мудрость трактует это иначе. :Д Что у умного в голове... Продолжите сами.
Ratbert wrote:народ... да вы че -классическую разводку не распознали.... а в роли лохов бюджет, правительство и бюрократы (те что не в доле)...
Ratbert wrote:подождем и посмотрим - кто получит госзаказы на эту самую технику...
On Friday evening, Armor Holdings Inc., a Jacksonville, Fla.-based company that produces and installs armor for Humvees, said it had been contacted by the Army and would boost production to about 550 armored Humvees a month from the current 450. The company's statement came at the end of negotiations that began Friday morning when Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey telephoned Armor Holdings President Robert Schiller.
The company expects to reach the new production level by February or March 2005. The armor plating costs the Pentagon $58,000 for each vehicle, company spokesman Michael Fox said.
On Friday, the former Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) wrote to Rumsfeld, asking why the Pentagon wasn't buying more armored Humvees when companies said they were not yet at full production capacity.
"I know you agree that no soldier should be put in harm's way without adequate armor," Kerry wrote. "I urge you to investigate immediately why troops are going without the equipment they need when American companies say they can provide it."
Lawmakers applauded the disclosure, but chastised the Pentagon.
"It's a very welcome decision," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) said in a statement. "Spc. Wilson deserves a medal for shaking the Pentagon tree so effectively and producing this long-needed increase so quickly. Shaming Secretary Rumsfeld is a small price to pay for saving many troops' lives."
MaxSt wrote:На таком высоком уровне никто не будет затевать хитроумный заговор только ради того, чтобы один военный завод получил лишних 5-6 миллионов в месяц. Для Пентагона это не деньги.
Ratbert wrote:и да, пока деньги невелики -но речь-то идет о приоритетах что будет заложено в бюджете...
Ratbert wrote:а бронетанковое лобби относительно других родов войск слабое и бедное (не то что в России ) -будет радо любой прибавке...
Kastet wrote:Найти генерала, ответственного за происшедшее и отправить на пенсию. А Рамсфельд однако лоханулся неслабо. .
Ctrl-C wrote:Просто невозможно решить появляющиеся проблемы мгновенно.
Ctrl-C wrote:Другое дело, что Рамсфельд должен был убедительно и с цифрами об этом рассказать
"I don't know what the facts are but somebody's certainly going to sit down with him and find out what he knows that they may not know, and make sure he knows what they know that he may not know, and that's a good thing.", Mr. Rumsfeld told reporters yesterday.
MaxSt wrote:Фирма та (см. выше) сообщила военным, что может увеличить продукцию с 450 до 550, причем уже давно. В то время армия никак не отреагировала на эту информацию. Только на этой неделе вдруг зашевелились.
MaxSt wrote:Не было у Рамсфелда никаких цифр -
Ctrl-C wrote:И отлично. Это не говорит о том, что они не шевелились. Они их закупали больше, чем до войны.
A Valley firm that provides critical armor for military vehicles in Iraq is operating at only half-capacity despite complaints from soldiers who say they are being sent into combat without adequate protection.
"We've been telling the Pentagon for months that we have the capacity to double our production," said former U.S. Rep. Matt Salmon, a consultant for ArmorWorks of Tempe.
"We're ready, and we haven't heard a thing."
...
"It's essentially a matter of physics," Rumsfeld said. "It isn't a matter of money. It isn't a matter on the part of the Army of desire. It's a matter of production and capability of doing it."
Salmon said that simply isn't true, at least in the case of ArmorWorks, which has a $30 million contract to provide composite armor kits that are fitted onto Humvee vehicles in three hours by soldiers in the field.
"The Pentagon right now, in its postdebacle spin, is trying to convince everyone that contractors are operating at peak capacity," Salmon told The Arizona Republic. "In our case it's flat-out not accurate."
He said the firm is producing about 300 armor kits a month but easily can ship twice that many.
MaxSt wrote:Что тут отличного? Почему сейчас опомнились, а не полгода, год назад? Что в этом такого замечательного?
Ctrl-C wrote:MaxSt wrote:Что тут отличного? Почему сейчас опомнились, а не полгода, год назад? Что в этом такого замечательного?
Не приведу ссылки, поскольку читал в бумажной газете - закупки бронированных Хаммеров во время войны выросли в разы. Т.е. сказать, что армия ничего не предпринимала, нельзя. Предпринимала.
Скупила ли армия все, что только возможно? Очевидно, нет. Почему - это отдельный вопрос. На Рамсфельда тут ссылаться не надо, он, как все успели заметить, вопросом не владеет.