The flying wing looks like they left off the cover for the AA battery.
Those would be the open weapon bays
Dropping some massive AA batteries with their ends connected to each other
Would you really want to bet the future of your country on Boeing making something? They dropped the ball on passenger airplanes and a spacecraft
At least we know there will be debris in a field every time we launch a sortie.
The other option is lockheed, who just built an f35 that costs way too much money and doesnt meet requirements so its maybe better than the f22
Y’know, from what I’ve seen of the F-35 it’s an amazingly sane machine considering the requirements it had to meet were very much not sane.
The program cost too much money or each airframe costs too much money?
Why would anyone trust Boeing with such a project?
Political convenience is a big one with them. At least with the passenger airplanes, their only competitor is very non-American Airbus, so they’re not only too big to fail but too embarrassing to fail.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if in 10 years their liners regularly fall out of the sky, and the US government just covers it up domestically the way China does with a lot of their corner cutting.
That being said, I can’t rule out that their bid wasn’t just better here, at least on paper.
Boeing has put a bunch of flight hours on the experiential version, how well that translates to a production version who knows. If LM doesn’t challenge then it’s pretty clear Boeing’s prototype was significantly better.
But then there’s still a couple of other manufacturers available, isn’t there? LM, NG… can’t think of a third one currently… Boeing would be the last place I would go to for reliable and critical engineering
NG decided not to bid, actually, so it was a binary choice.
At least it’s not SpaceX
Using Spotify Flight thing
Japan announcing a VF-1 Valkyrie that play’s city pop would make me nut into the 5th dimension.
Boing!!!
Damn, I’m more of an Apple Music guy.
If we can at least plug in an SD card or something w/ music files, I think the Gripen 2 could be workable.
Agreed!
Next frame: it includes a exclusive bonus 3 album set by Bitchin’ Betty.
