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Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter... by HPsquared on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:28AM (#26261191)
The movie was based on a book of the same name written by Colonel James Burton, highly recommended. It is a history of how and why the kinds of scope creep occurred in the DoD procurement. Eerily prescient.
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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 @07:26PM (#26298444)
... and quietly avoids mentioning that a lot of the problem came from Burton, or that his proposals were found detrimental to the program.

He also was staunch supporter of replicating Volksjäger concept, which was fortunately laughed out of the room (even dumbest Soviet design at the time wasn't that dumb)

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