Deacon923
Scooter Banks
Rand Corp analysis says it would have been cheaper to develop three separate planes for the AF, Navy and Marines, and research shows that every time the services have tried this one size fits all approach it's been the same story, so the Pentagon should have known better.
http://swampland.time.com/2013/12/18/how-not-to-buy-the-most-costly-weapon-system-in-the-history-of-the-world/
For some perspective, each of these planes costs about $160,000,000. They plan to buy about 2,400 of them. For the cost of 246 planes (10% of the total planned fleet), we could restore the entire $40,000,000,000 cut to food stamps over the next 10 years that the Republican House passed in September.
http://swampland.time.com/2013/12/18/how-not-to-buy-the-most-costly-weapon-system-in-the-history-of-the-world/
For some perspective, each of these planes costs about $160,000,000. They plan to buy about 2,400 of them. For the cost of 246 planes (10% of the total planned fleet), we could restore the entire $40,000,000,000 cut to food stamps over the next 10 years that the Republican House passed in September.