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Re:Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge stemming ... by bombcar on Monday July 08, 2024 @10:38AM (#40905841)
The military isn't the problem, it's that the military has no other options.

Who else are they going to buy planes to bomb different-colored countries with? SpaceX? Airbus? It is to laugh.

When you get a company that is too big to fail, it rests directly on the government for not identifying and solving the issue earlier.

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Re:Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge stemming ... by zokier on Monday July 08, 2024 @12:03PM (#40906566)
Boeing hasn't won any major military aircraft deals in recent decades.

The latest big bomber purchase, B-21, went to Northrop Grumman, as did the not so recent B-2. Fighters have been going to Lockheed (F-22 and F-35).

The biggest recent win for Boeing was KC-46 tanker airplane, which is just modified 767. I suppose there is also the handful of F-15EXes that are vestige from their McDonnell Douglas merger.

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