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The f35 was a terrible boondoggle.
by more_corn 2y ago
The f35 was a terrible boondoggle.
- mensetmanusman 2y agoDepends on whether you think the free market should push all engineering talent towards ad tech in SV, or if it is worth maintaining a home grown high tech defense industry. Recall that the iPhone would cost over a billion dollars if they only made 100 of them.
- thejazzman 2y agoWorth it.
- quantified 2y agoI don't understand your point, can you clarify? There is nothing free about the defense market. A few extremely large and politically wired contractors are cozy with politicians and senior defense procurement officials. So we get F-35s and Independence-class littoral ships. A $1Bb iPhone would at least work.
- rawgabbit 2y agoHmm. The article is talking about TR3 technology refresh version 3. It is behind schedule and full of software bugs.
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y agoYou know it's failed when they're looking for F-16 extensions and "clean sheet" designs for another "low". Upgrades to the F/A-18 and A-10 would suffice and make the F-35, F-16, AV-8B, and EA-6B redundant for far less money. And why buy 351 dedicated trainers (T-7's) for $25M/each when F-16's could be stripped down for the same role for effectively free? (Sorry Marines, V/STOL is a dumb requirement that's too expensive, and the Osprey is a deadly POS.) The DoD exists first to feed MIC pork projects and maximize the number of subcontractors, and "defense" second.