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National Security & Defense

Loki Liesmith

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1. Blame the Pentagon

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Apr 22, 2019, 09:21 PM

Apr 2019

They wanted a joint strike fighter common to all services (and our allies).

So each service gives incommensurables demands for the program requirements. Trying to reconcile these impossible constraints was crazy.

The program should have been much smaller and more focused. But that’s on DoD.

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