"Didn't navy retired all those Pegasus and other hydrofoils already?"

Sorry, it was Gates in 2009 that declared it a cold war relic.

"Hey the Raptor was shitcanned by Bush" I am not sure of your intent as I think there is a typo somewhere in the rest of the sentence.

The competition was Boeing. McDonnell Douglas was in prior to 1996 but was left out when they cut the field down to two for the Concept Demonstration Phase. For Douglas it didn't really matter because just a year later they were bought by Boeing. Both Boeing and Lockheed were given government contracts to build…

"So they're just flying around wasting fuel?"

The Reaper can not carry these at this time.

The guys who were copying the Harrier propulsion system lost the JSF competition back in 2001. Besides, I'm sure all the smart people who were instrumental in the design of the Harrier have long since retired.

You can't fire any of the weapons in anger until the weapons integration and testing is complete. For SDB II it has not completed. In fact, SDBII weapons integration has NOT completed on ANY platform, not just F-35. So, even if you could fit 8 in the B model's internal weapons bay, you still couldn't deploy them…

Guy on the right at 0:24-0:25. I bet he was highly impressed with the pilot's showboating.

Actually they should probably just retire the B-52 and replace it with the F-35. (I kid, I kid)

And the Bradley is one that actually saw combat... Look at all the billions the Army keeps spending on programs just to cancel them later... Comanche, Crusader, Future Combat System, and now let's see where they go with Ground Combat Vehicle.

Is it because kids are sociopaths? Because nothing else I can think of makes sense.

And yet the US managed to screw up a common platform multi-vehicle development before. Read about Future Combat System, which was more ambitious than just vehicles, but they couldn't even get the vehicles right.

I got stopped for doing 104 in a 65. I have no way of knowing if that was right because the speedometer only went up to 85 and it was clicking on the peg. Anyway, the officer wrote me for doing 89 (24 over) so it would just be a normal ticket. You bet your ass I paid the ticket.