Re: [MV] S&S FMTV

Carl Konefsky (cameraman@niia.net)
Thu, 08 Apr 1999 07:08:12 -0500

Well in my opinion there has been a game olayed in letting out this contact you
companies who for years building trucks ect and jumps someone new gets the
contract and cant do the job our money again
Carl

JOHN SEIDTS wrote:

> This would not be the first time the DOD bought a lemon. Remember the
> Sergeant York? Remember the Tiger Shark? Not every vehicle which enters
> the Army inventory becomes a legend. The whole FMTV fleet has had problems
> (from people I have talked to on the testing side) which have certainly
> brought it's present production model into question.
>
> And I have never seen the Pentagon jump up to say it was wrong about
> anything. And manufacturers with investors relying on their public image to
> keep their stock climbing aren't hot to admit design problems. That quoted
> article earlier sounded much more like a direct quote from press release
> than good investigative journalism. Rebuilding government vehicles and
> building vehicles with production bugs worked out is very different from
> tooling up to build a new vehicle. I think it is entirely probable for SSSS
> to be encountering some of the problems alluded to by other posts.
>
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