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> "The Air Force had to convince Sony to..." To be a fly on the wall during that discussion. I'm sure money wasn't an issue for the Air Force, or that Sony ha
by j1vms 7y ago
> "The Air Force had to convince Sony to..."
To be a fly on the wall during that discussion. I'm sure money wasn't an issue for the Air Force, or that Sony had some balls of steel.
- callalex 7y agoAre you implying that the Air Force is in the business of making “offers that cannot be refused” especially to foreign owned companies?
- redis_mlc 7y agoWell, actually yes. Notice how there's very few military aircraft companies in the USA? That's because the little fish got a visit from Washington saying, "that was your last contract unless you merge." Northrop tried to resist, for a while anyway. Regarding foreign companies, the Avro Arrow was cut up after the US offered Canada a northern missile defense network. The Arrow was an early Mach 2 interceptor - think of the foreign sales possibilities. Many of the designers ended up at NASA.
- rasz 7y agoactually https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/opinion/military-right-to-repair.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/opinion/military-right-to...