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user-inactivated  ·  3475 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight. New stealth fighter is dead meat in an air battle.

    The program is not doing well at deployment and it's way over budget. because so much hope and money has already gone into it the pentagon will just keep pouring money on it until it's up to snuff.

So what you're saying is that the Pentagon is up to their eyeballs in one of the most expensive examples of the sunken cost fallacy we have ever seen?





OftenBen  ·  3474 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Isn't that how government works?

am_Unition  ·  3474 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The JWST could give the F-35 a run for its money. Some of the space science industry has been hurting as a result.

I got ex-NASA workers telling me that NASA technicians are riding contracts that extend far past the launch dates of the projects they work on, just in case they were to have a schedule delay that pushed back the launch. They're literally getting payed to work on their own motorcycles, cuz gov't. Because you know that shit wouldn't fly in the private sector.

cgod  ·  3474 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Or our democracy is actually a kleptocracy.