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emergencyfood sh.itjust.works emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
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alcoholicorn lemmy.ml alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-02-13
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Why are F-35s so difficult to mass produce anyway? Are there super-labor intensive composites or something?
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ferret sh.itjust.works aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-18
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alcoholicorn wrote:
Why are F-35s so difficult to mass produce anyway? Are there super-labor intensive composites or something?

the short answer is yes
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alcoholicorn lemmy.ml alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-02-13
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ferret wrote:
the short answer is yes

Wasn't the F-35 supposed to be cheaper? Surely they were designed for ease of manufacture?
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MaxLemminist lemmy.ml MaxLemminist@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-09-16
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alcoholicorn wrote:
Wasn't the F-35 supposed to be cheaper? Surely they were designed for ease of manufacture?

It was supposed to be a lot of things.
What it became is mostly a ridiculously expensive failure.
A true example of the corrupt MIC doing its work.
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emergencyfood sh.itjust.works emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-03
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alcoholicorn wrote:
Why are F-35s so difficult to mass produce anyway? Are there super-labor intensive composites or something?

Mix of (1) modern warplanes genuinely being hard to make, (2) corruption and (3) Chinese sanctions on a bunch of companies that sell to the Pentagon.
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