Why the Air Force Wants to Buy Boeing's Aging Fighter

On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:38:00 -0500, Mitchell Holman
wrote:

Miloch wrote in
:



Boeing is taking a financial bath on the
737 Max fiasco and needs to squeeze money out of
a President eager to buy oodles of hardware, even
if it is dated

The order for the F-15X came before the 2nd 737 crash.

Teh fact is that the US (and not just them) put too much faith and
money on "stealth stealth stealth stealth"; end result, massively
expensive aicraft that take decades to come into service, by which
time much of their stealth tech is obsolete or close. And no service
can aford the numbers it needs.

Hence the "new" F-15. And why the F-16 is still going strong. With
upgrades, they are still outstanding aircraft.