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Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter... by whalesalad on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @03:06PM (#26255023)
Lockheed is synonymous with Skunk Works ... the F-35 was a Lockheed project. I can guarantee a lot of the engineers who worked on those legendary aircraft also participated in the JSF.
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Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter... by jeffreyrogers on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @05:28PM (#26257008)
Organizations change. I heard recently at Skunk Works the engineers were told by some bureaucrats that they couldn't change the skunk logo (they had a modified version for some project). It's like how Boeing used to be a great engineering organization and now isn't.

The sad thing is when a downturn happens those bureaucrats saying you can't change the logo will probably keep their jobs while the engineers who could probably be making pretty cool stuff if they had better leadership will be out of work.

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Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter... by labcomputer on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @04:48PM (#26256503)
F-16 was a joint Northrop and General Dynamics project. Manufacturing rights were only sold to Lockheed in the 90's.
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Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter... by p_l on Sunday February 28, 2021 @07:21PM (#26298421)
A critical part of F-35 problems was developed so far away from Skunkworks it is technically a separate company (still part of the wider Lockheed-Marting Concern) - the Lockheed-Marting Global Training & Logistics.

Having encountered the quality (hahahah ... sob) they produce personally, I'm totally unsurprised US Navy and USMC could find funding a new fleet of space satellites cheaper than re-bribing enough senators to get ALIS (and now ODIN) contract reassigned to someone competent.

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