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Inside the Joint Strike Fighter Competition
jonerik writes "The June issue of the Atlantic Monthly has this account of the history of the Joint Strike Fighter competition between Boeing and Lockheed Martin (which the latter company ended up winning this past fall, with Boeing now touting its expanding line of unmanned aircraft as the true future of tactical aviation). The article does a fine job of showing how the competitors dealt with the challenge of producing an aircraft (now dubbed the F-35) that the Air Force, Navy, Marines, RAF, and Royal Navy could all live with. Funniest part: Boeing's X-32 entry, with its enormous pelican-like jet intake, had some questioning whether the plane's bizarre appearance didn't hurt its chances more than its performance. 'Helpful as my contacts at Boeing were, no one was eager to claim credit for the design of the plane,' says the article's writer James Fallows." Fascinating article.
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Fascinating story. Too bad no one's going to fucking read it before posting comments. Fags.
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It's the only war we have left. And when we win it, we'll invent a new one. Oh wait, that would be the war on terror. When we run out of foreign nationals to kill, THEN we'll invent a new one.
If we didn't spend it on warplanes, tanks and landmines, we'd have to spend it on cancer research and fighting poverty. Are you insane!! Just think of all the people who would live happy, fulfilling lives! No, I'm afraid it's necessary to kill as many people as we can and make a pisspot full of money along the way. After all, you never know when one of the countries that we've bombed back into the stoneage will decide to spend their entire GDP on research and development of a new fighter/bomber that would make the X35 look silly. We MUST remain vigilant!