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To: Sequoyah101
"Lockheed has already effed up enough stuff."

They sure have...

The SR-71,

U-2/TR-1

Have Blue

F-117

C-130

C-141

C-5

S-3 Viking

P-3 Orion

F-104 Starfighter

Constellation

L-1011

P-38 Lightning

Blk 60 F-16

Blk 70 F-16

The JASSM

The Javelin anti-tank missile

The MLRS

The LRASM

oh, and lest I forget,

F-22

just to name a few things Lockheed has "effed up".

39 posted on 06/21/2017 5:54:46 PM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: SZonian

Those things were then and this is now.

Yes, once upon a time they did some really good work but they are making a career out of the F-35. A few of those are not Lockheed but General Dynamics legacy.

They lost my respect when they lobbied against their own aircraft, the F-22, to save that money for the F-35 because it has or had a higher profit potential. And that is what they have really screwed up.

I kow people who began post military careers working on F-35 code and have since retired a second time and are now off to yet another job.

The F-35 is a poorly managed program.


51 posted on 06/21/2017 9:59:13 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: SZonian

The F-22 is 30% built by LM, with Boeing building about 30% as well.


54 posted on 06/22/2017 7:02:00 AM PDT by Hulka
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