On: The F-35 Is a $1.4 Trillion National Disaster

[maxerickson]

It's not like the costs are some weird artifact of time itself, they come from specifying capabilities 25 years before they exist.

But sacred cow programs that are too big to cut are good for all the people that make the decisions.

[slededit → maxerickson]

Capabilities are not inevitable. You have to create R&D programs to bring them to fruition. Is the complaint here that its rolled up under the same line item?

[maxerickson → slededit]

Capabilities are not inevitable.

Yes exactly. The complaint is that the integrated development-procurement process proceeds as if they are.

For instance, https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/02/16/report-e... while they work on building the JFK.