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by amcnett 4504 days ago
The F-35 is not exactly a resounding success: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-22/flawed-f-35-fighter...
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arethuza 4503 days ago
It must be a resounding success - the UK is about to commit to buying some - like we committed to buying Skybolt and the F-111 (cancelling the awesome home grown TSR 2 in the process):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2

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protomyth 4504 days ago
No, at this point we should have built more F-22s for air-to-air. Strange how the "cheap" program is now the expensive one.
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