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F-35 program’s lifetime price tag tops $2 trillion, Pentagon wants jets to fly longer (breakingdefense.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

2 trillion dollars for a plane that can’t fly in rain.

What kind of sorcery is this, we ask again?

The engineers must have been high on something strong,

To create a flying machine so horribly wrong!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You know how we all found out that Boeing had dry rotted from the inside because the 737 Max started falling apart? Whose to say that Lockheed hasn't gone through exactly the same shit, but we just barely get glimpses of it through the smoke of classified documents.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I would bet this is precisely the case because exact same selection pressures apply.