Comments by "Jim Mcneal" (@jimmcneal5292) on "Why This Controversial Jet May Cost $1.7 Trillion | True Cost | Business Insider" video.

  1. One of the biggest mistakes was trying to combine 3 planes in one, especially the STOVL F-35B. It's basically a stealthy supersonic Harrier successor. The other one is not using all those methods to cheapen it up, like they do with new designs(NGAD, B-21 etc.)
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  2.  @dmvairsoft9243  It's basically one plane still, even despite 3 modifications
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  3.  @AA-xo9uw  >The primary purpose of CALF/JAST/JSF from the get go was to produce a STOVL platform. Yes, mostly because it's possible to make a bad fighter/carrier fighter from STOVL, but not vice versa. They definitely should have made 2 different planes -- F-35 for Marines and some other plane for Air Force and Navy. >Neither one of which will be cheap. Yes, but they would have costed more without those methods
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  4.  @PauloPereira-jj4jv  they basically are, just a different modifications
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