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caraher

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2. "Too big to fail"

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Thu Dec 15, 2011, 09:34 AM

Dec 2011

That's the F-35 program in a nutshell - when the MIC tosses all their eggs in the same basket, they cling to that basket for dear life!

I'm sure they'll get most of the bugs worked out eventually, but not before some pretty astronomical overruns in the development process.

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