[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I work in the procurement area, can say that the Buy America law on titanium is a huge ripoff for taxpayers. Boeing spend huge bucks buying titanium from a US source and has to segregate that titanium from what it uses to build its commercial airlines (domestic titanium not required). It is bureaucratic, expensive and stupid, just like this article.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

There was a time in the 1960s when US Steel had most of the parking places in Duluth-Superior stacked with old, decrepit ore carriers. The US government paid USS to keep them in reserve. Every one of them was scrapped in the 1980s. I have the bell from one of them.

[Wiseghy]

"I work in the procurement area, can say that the Buy America law on titanium is a huge ripoff for taxpayers. Boeing spend huge bucks buying titanium from a US source and has to segregate that titanium from what it uses to build its commercial airlines (domestic titanium not required). It is bureaucratic, expensive and stupid, just like this article."

Bears repeating for the protectionist knuckleheads. Most state of the art defense aircraft are made from composites. Radar reflective titanium will be used on lower tech cargo craft and subs. World supply and competition today with modern mining methods and recycled sources makes this notion of political leverage quaint and totally ignorant nonsense.