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So you're saying that they couldn't have designed two planes for 500 billion each?

They could have, but some dumb fool thought we could design 1 plane for everyone. I cannot remember the movie about that.

We're talking about the F-111, right?

I think the movie was about the Bradley, but the F-111 was an amazing example of "too many missions".

It's from Pentagon Wars, and it's an obligatory YouTube clip always linked in F-35 HN threads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA.

Agreed, but more specifically here is the 10 minute video which best distills the whole movie. It's worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA

They should have, but then they would have had to ask Congress twice.