It is good to see that folks are finally shaking off the old propaganda drumbeat of “We can’t afford NOT to have it” to “We can’t afford TO have it”.

Military branch specific competing desires and goals, multi-level political influences, use of the previously disproven and disastrous simultaneous concept and design testing, and contactor influence exerted over all of these areas mentioned doomed the 35 project from the start through the present and into the foreseeable future. While these items have always come into play on any military weapons project, they have been intensified and have become extremely convoluted on the 35 program, the likes of which has not been see previously.

Ya know; you can also be patriotic in demanding demonstrable and reasonable value for any and all monies expended on a military weapons project.