This thing always wanted to be too much, and thus invited too much compromise. The Airbus 340 transport is plagued by immense problems for exactly the same reasons: promising to be too much, inviting too many special wishes - and now the whole program again being in serious trouble. There is doubt that Germany will get the second transport this year. The first one has serious deficits.
Needless to say that if so many wishy-washy-don't-know-what-i-want-wishes get cllected for one and the same program, this is a provokation for the nindustry to milk as much coins as possibel. Because idiodts pay for just everything as long as it makes them look good when posing beside it. Especially if said idiots waste money that is not theirs. No money is spend as easily as money that one does not own.
I do not udge the technical sophistication of the Russian and Chinese designs. But their way of deciding on a design is looking superior to our method, more focussed, with less voices throwing in a growing amount of compromising special wishes.
The weapon loadout of the F-35, for a plane that should replace the F-15E and the A-10, is a bad joke.
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