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Reply To: LOCAAS

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Just me, but in order for this thing to survive the well known thin budgets, all services are going to have to show hard, determined, interest in it. Which may not be a bad thing because you can use it so so many ways on so many platforms. While maybe not as slick and certainly not apples to apples, I would rather see something like JCM survive the competition for ever shrinking funds. If I want a meat eating tank killer, we have CBU-105, SFW BLU-108B. Again not a real apples to apples comparison but certainly, like JCM, steps into some of the LOCASS killing ability. I think LOCASS is very useful, however again here, something like SDB and SDB II will also kill some of the targets that LOCASS was designed for. It would be nice if we had funds for all the neat gadgets, unfortunately we have less and less funds for cool stuff. Basic war sustainment is taking up a few colors of money that you don’t really hear much about. Congress just spent 2 billion on buying 10 more C-17s. Something we have NO need for. The only purpose for that purchase out of the blue was for political graft as it is an election year. Nothing more. There was no need. Figure that one out. 2 Billion could have been better used on any number of other things.