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Lockheed to cut 200 jobs at Fort Worth F-35 assembly plant
(fortworthreport.org)
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Yes clearly the f-35, notorious for having a logistics train that is on the verge of collapse during what passes for peacetime in Natoland, clearly needs fewer factory workers.
lol lmao
Sounds like the managers should have been the ones cut.
This flimsy supply chain is actually Lockheed's intentional design
They made the aircraft more complicated than it needed to be, not to fulfill various performance requirements, but rather to distribute small and mid-sized parts manufacturing facilities into a very wide array of congressional districts. And thus distribute small handfuls of well-paying jobs. This was calculated to create pressure against the competing Boeing fighter project, and it worked.
Holy shit. Can you reccomend any reading on this? I must know more.
Here's one source, there are others. I actually heard about this 10 or 15 years ago and this is a recent article about it:
https://www.pogo.org/analysis/has-the-pentagon-learned-from-the-f-35-debacle
Also: https://infogram.com/f-35s-1hke6098w1v565r
Oh my god I couldn't write a parody this good.
If WW3 happens, the West is so fucked
West right now, if they did not have nukes:
Its ok because we'll replace them with AI.
Yes....YES! increase the costs of maintaining a failing project so expensive we could have colonized the moon by now.