Not if they built just one. Free enterprises do bonehead things. CEO gets sold on this idea of a super washing machine, they R&D it, tool up some machines, build a model, stocks drop, new CEO takes over, says this is stupid & kills the project. You got a million dollar (or real expensive anyway) washing machine.
The objective is to maintain Air Superiority within the context of the reasonably forseeable threat environment.
I agree. I'm just defending the analogy made by whoever it was that made it. :-)
"You got a million dollar (or real expensive anyway) washing machine."
But it sells for a competitive price....and that's the point