The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter has failed

Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter... by jki275 on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @08:09PM (#26258540)

Where do you shop?

The problem with massive development efforts like this is that there aren't a lot of competitors. In this particular field, there are two, and not really even quite two exactly.

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Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter... by marshmallow_12 on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @08:46PM (#26258766)

i don't understand why 200 billion dollars wouldn't be enough for the US to make their own plane company.

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Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter... by eropple on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @09:04PM (#26258863)

There would have to be organizational will to do so, and one pole of the American political system doesn't have it for a military plane program and the other actively hates the idea of nationalized industry.

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Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter... by jki275 on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @09:06PM (#26258872)

We did, we made several of them.

Lockheed, Boeing, Northrup, etc...

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