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The Polack MSgt

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3. Everything wrong with the acquisition process rolled into one pig of an airframe

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Thu Jul 2, 2015, 09:47 AM

Jul 2015

$1,000,000,000,000 wasted - I had to recount the zeros out loud to get to 1 TRILLION correctly - and an F4E can out fight it, but only when it isn't grounded. This is criminal

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Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight [View all] douglas9 Jul 2015 OP

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