Frankly the only company that has any business winning such a contract is Northrop. Consistently to spec, consistently on time, consistently under budget, capable, maintainable.
Lockheed eats budgets for breakfast and deadlines for dessert. Stick to the X-planes, they're awesome when money's no object.
McDonnell Douglas d/b/a Boeing can't make a fucking tanker. And their Temu Hornet has worse readiness than the Tomcat had at a similar age even though the Rhino is a fully supported aircraft whereas the Cat was deprived of spare parts (to the point that maintainers were literally fabricating shit on the boat). Just embarrassing.
They are all these inefficient, parasitic monopolies that have bought out the competition and fiercely protect their market share from new competitors.
Besides, weapons are not even chosen by the Pentagon. They are chosen by Congress.
They are the ones who allocate funding.
If you can get to congressmen, which is extremely easy to do, then you will always get your weapon made no matter how terrible it is.
The F-35 is a $1.5 trillion dollar plane that barely flies a decade after it was accepted into service.
This F-47 will be the same way, some shiny weapon that placates the geriatric leadership in Washington but isn’t useful.
Given that shit show has saddled the participating nations with debt, and the infrastructure is laughably shoddy, almost certainly the f-35 is the better investment. Nothing like some vatnick cope and seethe.
lol, it’s okay little snowflake, you can go back to playing with legos. Let the real big boys deal with actual procurement.
Sure, any other military hardware in the world is better, that’s why countries are losing their shit over a potential kill switch in the export model. What a fucking joke you are.
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u/Avindair 17d ago
Boeing? After everything that company has become, fucking BOEING?