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They must have A/B tested the title to see what gets the most smug confirmation bias clicks (title is clearly not intended to optimize for outrage clicks so what else could it be).

The whole article is about the history of the program, why it costs so much and what the options are going forward. If you squint you can make it seem like failure but the article does not make that claim.



> If you squint really hard you can make it seem like failure but the article does not make that claim.

It does actually. Here are a couple of excerpts from the article that explicitly refer to it as a failure:

> Brown’s comments are a tacit admission that the F-35 has failed.

> ...

> But the Air Force and Lockheed baked failure into the F-35’s very concept.




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