Frankly, I don't think Boeing really needs to prove anything with this plane to the Air Force, or any other branch of our government. They'll continued to get contracts because of the consolidation of the defense industry and the government's need to support (at least) mild competition when it buys military equipment.
And, if it is a PR campaign, they couldn't do better than produce a plane that looks so damn cool...however with a "a maximum speed of 300 mph and a maximum altitude of 20,000 feet" I doubt it's going to enter production anytime soon, stealth or not...
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I swear when I read this title the first time, I thought it said "Humans rank 17th in Freedom of the Press"...
which tripped me out, I mean maybe that meant that the vogon's were free-r of speech than we are.
Frankly, I don't think Boeing really needs to prove anything with this plane to the Air Force, or any other branch of our government. They'll continued to get contracts because of the consolidation of the defense industry and the government's need to support (at least) mild competition when it buys military equipment.
And, if it is a PR campaign, they couldn't do better than produce a plane that looks so damn cool...however with a "a maximum speed of 300 mph and a maximum altitude of 20,000 feet" I doubt it's going to enter production anytime soon, stealth or not...