re: A not too kind assessment of the F-35 program.

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I'll never understand the military brass

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Here's how you understand the military brass:

Just about every single one of them is jockeying for a board seat on one of the big defense contractors. And they will do whatever's necessary to make that happen.

There are exceptions, but they are few and far between.

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understand the military brass thinking it was better to have one plane be shitty at a bunch of things instead of many planes being great at one thing each.

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maintaining and parts.
your staff only needs to know one plane. pilots only need the same training. so training modules less.
saving money on parts inventory, training, equipment. really big savings

and no one really said it would be shitty.

I would like to see the lisr of issues stated in terms of its requirements.