[VadeRetro]

"But we would have saved 2.3 billion 1984 dollars by canceling the F-15. And the F-4 Phantom was a perfectly good jet airplane!" </Pseudo-Kerry-mode>

[edwin hubble]

""But we would have saved 2.3 billion 1984 dollars by canceling the F-15. And the F-4 Phantom was a perfectly good jet airplane!" </Pseudo-Kerry-mode>"

Yes, but we paid the ante and forced the Soviets to invest money they didn't have for a competing aircraft.

This and many other similar investments drove them under.