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> ... the fix is in. “Low rate initial production” means that subcontracts will be spread across the political landscape, ensuring the creation of an unstoppable lobby preventing any future effort to strangle this boondoggle in its cradle... in 2001 the Pentagon announced that the F-35..would cost $200 billion.. enter service in 2008..[Now] acquisition costs.. doubled.. price is nudging $2trillion, and engineers are still struggling to make the thing work properly.

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Responsible Statecraft · The fix is in for new Air Force F-47 — and so is the failureBy Andrew Cockburn