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Kid Berwyn

(14,652 posts)
8. They knew, going in, it wouldn't work.
Sat Mar 27, 2021, 10:14 AM
Mar 2021

...Part of the enormous cost has come as a result of an effort to share aircraft design and replacement parts across different branches of the military. In 2013, a study by the RAND Corporation found that it would have been cheaper if the Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy had simply designed and developed separate and more specialized aircraft to meet their specific operational requirements...

Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-went-wrong-with-the-f-35-lockheed-martins-joint-strike-fighter/

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