Sounds about right.
There’s a sizable Boeing facility near me outside of Philly. VTOL plant.
They’re having staffing issues due to white males leaving because of woke BS and getting passed up for promotion.
I doubt Russia and China are concerned with HR’s bullshit…
I would point out that it isn’t really 40 years of development, to be fair. For a variety of reasons we basically stopped or slowed development and upgrades for a great many systems and categories roughly 20 years ago. Unfortunately, one of the reasons given was that “we are so far ahead that the other guys won’t catch up any time soon.” Even more unfortunately, there are no shortage of people here on FR that continue to believe that despite the world steadily serving up proof that reality disagrees.