[michigander]

Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)

The Lockheed Martin X-35

The Boeing X-32

[cmsgop]

If Boeing Does Not Win This it will hit Home for me.

[Tuco-bad]

I guess it helped that Cheney's wife served on the board of directors at Lockheed.

[Free the USA]

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[conservative cat]

The article regarding the contract engineers being asked to submit resumes to LM was crap.

Boeing has been posting these contingent positions for a couple of months, now. The difference is that Boeing has a lot of internal talent that can be moved right over (especially now- from the commercial side.)

LM may have an advantage, but- this was not proof of that advantage.

[danielobvt]

I would rather the DOD wait as the GAO suggests. Makes sure that the Military gets the best product. We do not desperately need these planes at this moment, so a slight delay shouldn't hurt too much. Better than picking the wrong one.

[Log]

Boeing's design for the JSF looks like ``a flying frog with its mouth wide open,'' say Air Force and Pentagon sources, who have tastelessly dubbed it ``Monica.''

Bill Clinton's legacy lives on within the military.

[Southack]

Congress is right to consider delaying this contract because the F-22 Raptor ensures our air superiority for the next decade (possibly two), and the NEXT fighter to beat it may very well be flying WITHOUT a pilot.

The armed UAV's over Afghanistan are demonstrating that we can hit targets over hostile areas with "remote" pilots on the ground. Arming better versions of those UAV's in the future with air to air missiles in addition to the air to ground weapons that they have today is not much of a mental stretch, either.

And the MAJOR limitation on manueverability, even on the Raptor, is the pilot (who blacks out if certain G threshholds are exceeded. UAV's without pilots can be built to outmanuever any jet that is limited by a human pilot. It is the wave of the future.