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2025-03-22 Science & Technology

Pentagon set to award US Air Force's next-generation fighter jet contract, sources say

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11152 views ] Top

#1 Both Boeing and Lockheed should not get the contract. Lockheed will cost three or four times the contracted amount, possibly more and delay delivery till maybe the next century.

Boeing right now has such poor quailty control, we'll be locky if the planes remain in flying condition and still be intact after a few flight cycles.

Both their planes would most likely requires a 1housand hours maintenance for every hour the plane fly.

Frankly I wouldn't trust them to do the job right, on time and within contacted costs.

Who else can we seek to bid on the contracts?

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-03-22 02:31|| 2025-03-22 02:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Northrop Grumman.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2025-03-22 04:04|| 2025-03-22 04:04|| Front Page Top

#3 The number of military contractors for builds has severely contracted since 1960s. That's the problem with mergers and the resultant pseudo-competition. It's also compounded since certain national security issues means that foreign competition is out.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-03-22 07:01|| 2025-03-22 07:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Articles yesterday said Boeing got the contract. Hopefully the design doesn't call for doors.

Posted by Mercutio 2025-03-22 10:52|| 2025-03-22 10:52|| Front Page Top

#5 BTW__ Called it the F-47, in honor of POTUS 47.

Posted by Mercutio 2025-03-22 10:54|| 2025-03-22 10:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Unfortunately, Musk is too stretched at the moment to consider competing.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-03-22 15:15|| 2025-03-22 15:15|| Front Page Top

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