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07-21-2015, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by patteeu

Programs like the F-35 are an attempt to keep costs down by combining the roles of multiple previous generation platforms into one. The result inevitably involves performance trade offs, unfortunately.

Except there's a pretty good chance that the cost overruns associated with making the F-35 all things to all people, not to mention the different variants required, has made it where maintaining separate airframes would almost certainly have been more cost effective.

The F-35 may have been a decent idea in theory but it should have been scrapped well before it got this far.

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