"Scott Ferrin" wrote in message
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The thing that makes a decison/system/whatver "pork barrel"
is when it's built mainly because the politicians want it to be so
they keep those jobs and get those votes.

All aviation is politics.

Because you say so?

Aviation is too much money to be anything but politics.


If that were the case the military would never issue requirements
(because it wouldn't matter) and there would be no competitions
(because they wouldn't matter).

That would seem to be the nature of Lockheed unflyable entry in the
competition to build a prototype ATF, none of it mattered. From there we
have seen a demonstration of the Peter Principal for profit. USAF did an
excellent job of driving off any Kelly types and tieing the hands of the
rest of the engineers.