I think if you compare the relative weights, it’s probably more closely akin to shooting through a condom.

What was the pucker factor when those rounds hit?

I guess you missed the Manhattan Project.

It’s always more than the estimates. The restart would cost almost a billion dollars.

Yeah, they were looking for enough orders to keep the line open. They’ve already paid to develop it. Everything at this point is gravy.

It certainly would have saved us a ton of cash.

I don’t think that’s going to be a factor.

I’m not sure that number will be remotely accurate in the long run.

I think IF China hit Taiwan, it would be a coin flip, depending on who was in office.

Yeah, I find it hard to believe we’ve left ourselves in such a tenuous position with regards to something as important as air superiority.

Yeah, I heard that same argument when I was a kid, and Reagan started buying new toys.

True, but now we’re spending nine figures a pop on a stealthy F-16.

Christ.

The ten dozen F-22s we could get around to defend Taiwan if we had to might seem woefully inadequate.

This isn’t building Cobra kits.

Think about how much faster you could get it into production if you didn’t have to worry about killing a pilot.

I’d be surprised if we didn’t have AA drones in 10.

Carter killed the B-1 because we’d just figured out stealth.

He’s right, and it’s a pretty good analogy.

They offered us Superbugs at $50million a pop several years ago.